Category: Bees
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Now you see me, now you don’t
As the temperature rose yesterday the earth exhaled a blanket of cloudy breath dripping with whispers. I took you for a wee walk down my road. Now, turn your head from this moonscape, look out to the West, can you see the farmy? Take twenty more steps… Look again and we see nothing but mist.…
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Shuffling the cards of cows.
On the way out to milk yesterday morning we were greeted with a cheerful little shower of powdery snow. Just a little. Then it melted before our eyes. Ah well. When I counted the hay bales the other day, and after doing the rather rudimentary maths associated with this exercise, which frankly is as far…
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Sometimes we all need to have a good think.
Yesterday I awoke to 22F, this morning it is 40F. But summer is over. That life’s force we call Mother Nature is more powerful that any goverment, any warlike clan. Any law, any silly little wish. Any roof and any plan. When they say the Force of Nature they mean the ultimate force. She is the…
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Pigs Posing as Construction Crew
The Shush Sisters have been working hard at spreading the new soil around their front yard. What I do is – each day I sprinkle some corn about the earth and then they push the soil around as they hoover. After that they lie on the hills, which looks amusing but impossible to get a…
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Frogs cry
This is going to sound like a Tall Tale but I swear it is true. Yesterday morning began as an ordinary day. I milked Daisy the cow. Then Queenie Wineti convinced me that the cows should be allowed out on the greening grass for a bit. Daisy has been schooling her in the Intense…
The Kitchen's Garden 