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Struggling to Farm in the deep cold and driving snow
Yesterday the snow and the wind fought it out all day and into the night. The umpire fled, the cheerleaders bolted. The game deteriorated into a brawl. It was all about hard faced driving snow. Snow piling up just where you want to walk, then blowing itself up into, around and ahead of the next…
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The Gift of a Day to Prepare for a Storm.
Yesterday was almost warm. I know it doesn’t look terribly warm, and blowing so the snow was washed up into beachy tidal drifts but warm enough so I could spend hours outside preparing the barn and my animals for the deep cold that is forecast. Though I will believe the weather when I see it.…
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So far so good
It was minus -10C (-23F) when I went out to start the chores yesterday morning. And the animals were handling it well. Double rations and lots of extra bedding seems to be working so far. By lunchtime we were above zero. Which was nice. Do you remember me saying the other day that getting up…
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The real cold is coming
Boo loves snow and has no interest in any discussion about cold that may result in the curtailment of his outdoor ventures. We have snow again. Just a few inches. It blew snow showers all day yesterday, so the north doors had to be closed. Sheep hate to be locked inside but the barn would…
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Things I learnt (in the absence of a more inspiring title)
I have no photographs. I took the shots, got distracted, loaded them, got distracted, thought I had saved the ones I wanted, got distracted, deleted the file and then let the computer run out of gas and then did not restore and there was nothing.. anywhere. Well you see the problem. And my Hawk the…
The Kitchen's Garden 