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  • August 25, 2013

    caught red-handed, I mean red lipped – with her hand, I mean head in..

    Sheila got out while I was moving the chicks into their Ark. Ton went into high alert. The first I saw she was munching the dregs of the dropped apples  under the Apple Pie Apple tree.  As laid back and nonchalant as you please. Lumbering about. Then when I returned with a bucket of feed…

  • August 24, 2013

    A Mystery object – Can you Guess?

    Here are some clues! It is heavy. And a little rusty but not where it matters. It was for sale and now it’s not! Getting warmer? Now are you getting warmer? Yes. A hay elevator. I have never seen one before either. It is old but beautiful. And even better it has a motor that…

  • August 23, 2013

    The starlings have come

    When the field corn starts to sweeten and the insect population starts to strengthen the Starlings come. They line the overhead telegraph wires like fat black pegs on a clothesline. They fly into the fields by the thousand feeding on the pests feeding on the corn and swoop back out in cascading formations.  They fill…

  • August 22, 2013

    How to train your dog in Five minutes, Five times a Day.

    I was not trained to train  dogs. But my dogs are all very well trained in the basics.  Many people will look at them work and say Who trained your dogs? Me. I say, a little surprised. Don’t you train your dog?  You can you know. It is easy. I just know a little and…

  • August 21, 2013

    Fly Away Home

    Though his multi coloured tail is almost gone, The Duke of Kupa is still a gorgeous bird.  The tail feathers I am finding now are shorter and fluffier. The piglets are still exploring their new boundaries and threes times yesterday Ton was sent out to “See the Piggies” . This is his command to find…

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