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A Tough Few Days.
With The Matriarch’s Permission. A podcast. Getting old ain’t for sissies. Please share. We have many, many caregivers of elderly relatives from all walks of life out there. There are literally millions of us. Unpaid and untrained living with more responsibility than they can handle but they do. Handle it. This is only one tiny…
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Counting Out The White Chicks
Who is up for a counting game? Would you like to count these white chickens for me? They are so hard to count when they are moving. And a few have scratches on their backs from a night predator of some kind. I need to know if I have lost any. I actually suspect foul…
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Who Checked on You Today?
I read this sentence, this morning. “Who checked on you today? Exactly. So keep focusing on you and get shit done”. How sad that person must be, I thought. Then I thought – I had better check on my people. Make sure they are all ok. Or mostly (because we all say we are OK…
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Fluffy Bottomed Mr Flowers
When the Duke of Kupa (my first big peacock) – was sick in that terrible winter – was it 2018? – his tail feathers stopped growing. The Duke died of pneumonia and because it was the middle of the worst winter I ever experienced out here. The ground was frozen solid. As hard as glass.…
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Town and Country
This should be my last morning waking up in my MIL’s house in town. Tonight I will be back in my own bed until something changes. And we all know that things change – slow or fast – they still change. And we only get this one life so I am more than happy to…
The Kitchen's Garden 