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Mama has a surprise for you: FOUR LIVE LAMBS!
You are going to love this. The photos are terrible. They were taken last night and Mama will not tolerate the flash. These snapshots, taken within the hour of their birth, under the barn light, show you really little. Except that there are four little lambs in fleecy coats milling about. That they had all…
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Home Made Peanut Butter, Home Made Laundry Powder, a Home Made Life
Home made is my favourite way because the ingredients in anything should be recognisable or at the very least readable. And if I make something myself then I know for sure what I am eating or using. I just don’t trust store bought. Only some ingredients have to be on the label. Some origins and…
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Kupa shows his bad side.
All my city clothes were peeled off, stepped out of, abandoned and dropped in snail heaps on the bedroom floor as I morphed back into miss c. I will pick them all up later I promise but I was late for chores and everyone was calling. They knew they could use my guilt about being…
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The Big City goes all farmy like!
Chicago …. the big city! From the beginning it was all about the food. John from Chicago met the Matriarch and I at the railway station, poured us into his little super duper car and roared us through the streets from market to market. I am sure he felt like he had a wind up…
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How to make wonky Beeswax Candles.
Yesterday we took our wicks and prepared to make beeswax candles. We attached the wicks to bent coat hangers so that we can dip and then hang them up for a rest on a broom handle laid between two chairs. In the hot water bath we had a tin with a sweet little bear on…
The Kitchen's Garden 