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Too Fat
I am very particular about what my animals eat. Especially if I intend to eat that animal myself. But an animal that I am raising for the freezer is fed very differently from an animal that I am raising to keep. A pregnant animal eats very healthily but the feed is lean. We do not want their…
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Geyser
How often does one get to see a geyser in the kitchen? Fortunately not often at all. Yesterday my walls got a good clean with pulsing hot water. I had come in to fill a jug of warm water for the pigs, turned on the hot tap as you do and off it came in my…
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Zero Visibility
Yesterday really did dawn bitterly cold without a touch of sun all day. We heat the house with one fireplace as you know (the bedrooms are unheated) and yesterday the warmth did not reach the glass house so we took all the pots into the house but the plantings in the beds had to just brave…
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The camera sees all
I may have discovered the source of Godot’s strange behaviour. What do you think this is? One leg is black. Here is a close up. Is that dirt, from when he was stuck under the bush the other day? or something more sinister. He was fine yesterday. No limping, active. Eating drinking, Flying. Is it dirt?…
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I love Snow
I do. Especially getting up in the morning to a clear morning. With the fuzzy moon just setting… And the sun just rising. Everything has paused. Every single ear in the barn tuned to the click of the back door, and the squeak of my boots as the dogs and I slog through the snow with the…
The Kitchen's Garden 