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Gone
I am off to California today. To visit another branch of my family.My third son and his family. If I had been able to get out to Canada as well this winter, to see my Eldest son, I would have seen all five of my children this year. But poor Eldest Son – I think I…
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Think Like a Cow
OR: How to load a single cow into a stock trailer. I have been mulling this post over for a few weeks now. Thinking like a cow. Because often when we have to move an animal somewhere strange, (like into a stock trailer) or across dangerous terrain (like concrete covered in a sheet of ice, or…
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What do you think?
The eggs were put into the incubator on Sunday at lunchtime. Here they are in front of the candling torch four days later. Now this is way too early of course and the wrong way around. One should candle the egg from the large end where the chick actually grows. Like this. (below) They…
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Cold Feet
It is a measure of Sheila’s trust in me that she would trudge all the way across the snow drift that has had her cooped up all this time and come out for a walk. (Though she has balked at it three days running so I guess she trusts me when she feels like it) . …
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Thick Ice
As you know the day before yesterday it was warm and much of the snow began to melt, then in the night the temperatures dropped and a cold Northerly wind came up and by yesterday morning the slushy snowy covering on the ground had been turned to heavy ice. Not a crust of ice. Polished hard packed…
The Kitchen's Garden 