Category: farm life
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a little archives, a little gardening, a little yesterday
First some farm pictures – from Rhonda. Just in this morning. I am in the same boat as you now. Watching my farm from afar! Watching the cows watching the Pops. From the Archives: March 26, 2013 Here is the link in case you want to read your comments. Piles of snow. Wonderful. All day…
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The Long Low Light.
In every way. Low in the sky. Late in the day. And rain was coming. And I had been cleaning out the barn. R and I had been talking as we were sweeping. She went outside to grab something. Popping her head back around the post she says. They are listening. The cows. Standing just…
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Well, that was a Surprise
I was feeding the cows their cabbages and pumpkins and guess who crashed the party! I let the little pigs out to have a rummage in theit field and it only took about 20 minutes for these two to find me. The other two had stayed where they were left. But back into the small…
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When you hit that overwhelmed feeling
Identify it first. That overwhelmed feeling. Give it a word. The first word that comes to mind. The word I am giving that feeling today is: prepare. Breathing helps. A good declutter of the brain helps.(not sure how to do that yet, but like my cutlery drawer it is long overdue). We are icebergs. Or…
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Compost for the Win
After a month I turn the compost pile and add more water. This was my main task yesterday. In these compost piles there is manure, straw bedding (containing urine), matured compost and water. But there is way more straw than manure so when I turn the compost I add more water. To turn it I…
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