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We need to talk about Charlotte
But first.. what is wrong with this picture. Yes! Do you see it, too? It is not often that we have a steer grazing in the drive. And a dog paying no attention AT ALL. He had broken out of his pen (well we all know who his mother is!) and eaten the afternoons hay..…
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Rain. Rain falling with a relieved sigh.
I know some of you are expecting snow but we had hours and hours of rain yesterday and OH it was glorious. Quiet, firm and even heavy at times. All the animals stood out in it. I was milking an unrepentant, dripping wet cow. The fields are waterlogged. The troughs are overflowing. Just lovely. Though…
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Hairy MacLairy gets all Kissy Kissy
Farmy work never ends. Hairy loves children. He likes to Kiss them. When we were walking we stopped to listen to the rustle of the dried winter grasses and investigated tracks in the snow, and peeped into empty nests and ran up and down the pathways through the wild grass. On the way back even…
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The Kitchen’s Garden’s 2013 Garden has Begun.
Is that even a sentence? There must be about four grammatical errors in that title! However: the broccoli is up. The cabbages, leeks, celery and onions are sown. And the first wave of tomatoes have been sown too. The gardens have begun. No spring in sight but I can see the beginnings of the spring…
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Whose tracks are these?
This is not a rhetorical question. Are these from a rabbit? Have to be a rabbit. Our snow hung around for most of the day but it was one of those calm, warmish cold beautiful days that slowly melted into the afternoon. Here is the Bobby Blanc. Now I bet you wish you could do…
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