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Two perfect babies + three perfect babies
I am too tired to say much. I checked Poppy every couple of hours during the night. She was definitely not her self in the night and in some pain. Panting. But no pushing. No babies. She did pass a small bloody bag about midnight then after that everything settled back down and she went to…
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The last day before today
After such a long time waiting to have piglets I am still waiting. Do you remember trying to breed Sheila to no avail (she does not like man pigs preferring her own company) in fact as you will remember she did serious damage to a very expensive prize boar and was quite cut up herself…
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Two days to go!
Imagine a life where the mosquitoes were as big as mice. It could have happened you know. And right about now we are heaving with mosquitoes. So I am kind of grateful they are so small. They seldom actually bite me which is nice but no-0ne wants to stand next to me when we are picking…
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The Cadet and I
Yesterday we had an old fashioned day and the Cadet and I toddled about the farm doing our work. Just the two of us. We picked apples for the dehydrator and pies, and apples off the ground for the pigs. We found a butterfly – a monarch – in a wood of milkweed – a protected plant…
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Prairie Squalls
Again and again yesterday we were hit with buckets of drenching rain. Inches of it. Pouring out of the sky., I don’t even really understand how a fluffy cloud could contain so much water. Literally Tons of water in a little cloud like that. How can it sit in there and wait to rain like…
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