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green, the good stuff
(laughter). The Rat House paddock is starting to show its green though the ground is still so cold it is taking its time coming up. I have had to let the stock out on the fields before they are quite ready, (I would say the grass is three weeks behind normal growth) this is bad…
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A delicious day
It was just such a lovely ordinary day. Delicious. Though I was dogged all day by the thought that I had forgotten something and I still cannot remember what. Don’t you hate that? And last night the full moon was so bright and so golden that Ton was growling at it as it shone through the bedroom…
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There’s a sheep in that sheep! Shearing Day.
Before I even started looking for Mama the sheep I began asking around about a local shearer. Sheep need to be shorn every year, they are mountain animals, they thrive in the winter but to leave all that wool on a sheep in the summers here would be awful. So a local shearer was critical…
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Leghorns Liberated
The leghorns have been liberated from their warm basement home and are now out in the small pen in the corner of the big chook house. The small pen is called Fort Knox because it is absolutely predator proof, one year rats killed about 6 of our little chickens, since I made Fort Knox I…
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Good News – with Hope attached
It looks like there is more action around the troubled bee hive than I thought there would be. (Here are two little old tractors waiting to go and live in the sand pit of two bright little boys.) Anyway, the scene yesterday outside the struggling hive was very active. Many bees from both hives were…
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