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Time and motion. Multi-tasking. Do it once-do it right. Do it your way.
But how do you manage all that they say. You have a farm and all those gardens and all the cooking from scratch, baking bread, chopping wood, old fashioned stuff and your husband works, you write a daily blog and you are inherently lazy. Well, people don’t actually say I am inherently lazy, I mean…
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Spring Garden Planning and making Paper Pots for the Seedlings.
I HATE PLASTIC! Oh you knew that. I did not need to SHOUT then. But I hate plastic! So I refuse to buy plastic pots for the hundreds of seedlings we grow each year. It kind of defeats the purpose you know. So I make paper pots. They hold together remarkably well when packed in…
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Tea Cups and Jars
Did I tell you that John has predicted that spring is coming early? Just a thought. So now we have these growing in the South Window. I know, they will get leggy. However you always plant tomatoes right up to their leaves as they are one of the few plants that will grow roots from…
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How to Clean Grungy dirt out of Old Bottles
Though of course I mean no disrespect to Grunge the long ago Fashion choice. In fact My fashion choice for a very short period. I thought we needed a wee rest after all the excitement and Our John spent some time yesterday going through his bottle collection and cleaning a few of them with this…
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Let’s go Walkabout on the Farmy. Ignore those men with guns!
So now for something completely different. We will go back to the post I was collating when we were so RUDELY interrupted by men with guns. Yesterday in the morning there was a snow man with a TopKnot sleeping on the roof of the barn! This is one of Houdini’s chickens, growing up. The snow is…
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