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  • June 11, 2012

    Do you want help with your vampires?

    Good.  We have just harvested lots of fat and delicious garlic.  Maybe I don’t want to share these with the vampires, tell them to grow their own!  They get too much publicity lately anyway. Vampires just ain’t what they used to be! Once clean of all the dirt, these were plainted into ropes and hung…

  • June 10, 2012

    Miss C gets her groove back

    The country house was heaving with children. The wedding  punctuated by baby gurgles and laughter.  We attended the ceremony under the trees, seated in rows of white chairs under big old trees planted by Johns grandfather and father.  I sat ever so calmly in my lovely summer dress my legs demurely tucked to the side.…

  • June 9, 2012

    The day it all fell apart

    I went out yesterday morning to milk and discovered that things were not going to be as easy as I had imagined.  Daisy was in a fury because I was sharing her baby.  She roared into the barn,  heaving herself about. Rolling her eyes at me and startling as the chickens woke and fell-flew from…

  • June 8, 2012

    Introducing Baby Bobby Blanc

    Our baby calf has arrived. Both mother and baby are doing just fine. I am going to let the images tell the story.  A few of these shots are of the actual birth which was perfect. Magic in the field.  I thought I would warn you of the birth photos ahead of time, in case…

  • June 7, 2012

    Pig escape Thwarted by Heifer

    Well, all my plans for a couple of  hours off, yesterday afternoon, were in vain.  The farmy had other plans.  Hairy Maclairy decided to stage a break in into the Milking Parlour.  A space he is not allowed to visit.   The Shush Sisters were re-homed into the pig sty. They literally romped in all…

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