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Bring out your pumpkins
In America, in the Fall, the people buy pumpkins and put them on their front door steps. Their stoops. An estimated THREE million pumpkins are purchased in the United States during the month leading up to Halloween. Many people carve scary Halloween faces into their pumpkins to keep that old Irish drunk Stingy Jack at bay,…
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The Last Time
Last night I milked Lady Astor, the house cow, for the last time this season. She does not know it yet because she is a cow and though invited to the meeting of me and … um … ‘me’ to discuss the future of her milking season – she had nothing to say other than “What…
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The List of Books to Read 2015
From the Fellowship of the Farmy. The readers of the kitchensgarden.com. This is a long list. A wonderful list. Good books we have read so far this year. Because some of you may want to print it out I have included no photographs. This will certainly take me and maybe you right into the reading winter…
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The List
Today I intend to compile your AMAZING list of books. Yesterday evening strong winds and rain from the South were forecast so after the milking Hugo and I closed up the barn, replaced spent light-bulbs, made softer and deeper beds for the pigs and calves, and led the big cows in under the trees with hay…
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The Winter Book List 2015
I have run out of books to read! I need a winter reading list. Every single night of my reading life (beginning at age 3) I have read a book in bed before going to sleep. And when the winter comes there may even be time to read a book in front of the fire…
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