Category: Farm Animals
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Daisy loves lemons, she won’t get the scurvy
I have piles of beautiful lemons. So I decided to make the lemon cheese (lemon curd). This is how Mum’s recipe, scribbled down in 1981 read. It is certainly spotty and dog eared and up for interpretation. juice of 8 lemons sugar to taste 1 oz butter 1 tblsp cornflour 2 eggs, whipped Make in…
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Sweet cold farmy day.. we love the farmy days.
Snow. Light Powdery snow. We had another snowy day yesterday. But it is still too dark outside for me to see what happened in the night. We have no street lights in the country so there is no way of knowing without going out. Some farms have enormous lights that light the whole yard…
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“You’ve strangled me?” I said to the nice man, moving Moaning Mia out of the way with my hip.
“Throttled. Yes Ma’am.” “So.. TonTon I cannot play with your ball from in here! Think about what you are doing! Mia stop that, stop jumping! Wait.” I said to the little man. “Mia, Get OUT of the chook house. I have got to fix this door. Stop that, this is a phone not a toy.…
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Blood in The Barn! Hairy can no longer Toot his own Horn!
You know how only YESTERDAY Daisy promised not to head butt Hairy in 2012? Well it was still 2011 yesterday. We were working in the barn unearthing the 1953 Dodge. It will be my asparagus truck for the spring, I am going to park it at the end of the track and sell my fresh…
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In My Kitchen and Mary’s Cat has an Announcement
Celia from Fig Jam and Lime Cordial has a lovely tradition at her place. She encourages us to post a wee peek into our kitchens,then let her know and she posts our sites, in a column on her page. So here we are. Have a wee look at a couple of things in my kitchen.…
The Kitchen's Garden 