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Walkabout the Farmy between Storms and a Piggy Anniversary!
I love that word: Storm. It has such weight! Such potential. Such compassion when it storms above your head but does not break it. And such callousness when it does. The dogs and I walked the perimeter with Camera House between squalls yesterday to see what you might see and the benefit of all this…
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Wild Storms, Electric Shocks and Back Doors
I fully intended to have this written and ready to post at dawn this morning as usual but then the weather had other plans. The electrician did not come to turn our power off yesterday but a nasty storm did. A very nasty storm. Two more inches of rain and horrendous white out winds. We…
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Rainbow at the end of the Farmy
The Big Dog still rules the verandah with a firm hand. While the peahens still sneak about avoiding their motherly duties. Thank you for all your excellent ideas for hatching the eggs safely. Giraffe has her own little private run now. Shortly after I took the shot below I threw some grain into her run…
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Floods in the Fields
This is why I have water in the basement. Our little house looks like it is on an island. But that is a field of corn under water. The farmer who rents this field will have to replant but for the moment no tractor can get near this muddy field. Meadow has decided that the…
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A peahens egg looks like this
Yes it is the one on the left. I was hoping for speckles or at least something a little distinctive but no they look just like a chickens egg though they are much bigger and even a bit pointier at the end. Too big to fit in this boys mouth. He has been going under…
The Kitchen's Garden 