Category: Farming
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The starlings have come
When the field corn starts to sweeten and the insect population starts to strengthen the Starlings come. They line the overhead telegraph wires like fat black pegs on a clothesline. They fly into the fields by the thousand feeding on the pests feeding on the corn and swoop back out in cascading formations. They fill…
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How to train your dog in Five minutes, Five times a Day.
I was not trained to train dogs. But my dogs are all very well trained in the basics. Many people will look at them work and say Who trained your dogs? Me. I say, a little surprised. Don’t you train your dog? You can you know. It is easy. I just know a little and…
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Sweet Potato Dog Treats
A gift. Not for you. For them – (Not the best composition but they did their best). These shots were taken to print and send away to Triple T at basic training. I am sure he misses the dogs and his cat. And his car. This is a Dodge Rampage that our John fixed up…
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The Bee Hive goes Up a Level
Still wrapped in the gentleness of the summer glide we had a productive day yesterday. Summer sauce went into jars. Dried capsicum into jars. Stuff I am not going to eat came Out of jars and into the mouths of my piglets. I have a terrible habit of keeping things in jars just because they…
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Some Most Excellent News! At last!
I took a bite of an apple to see if it was ready to be picked.. not quite but still very tasty, crisp and warm from the sun. But that is not the good news. I took all these shots yesterday before I even got the news. The Duke of Kupa probably knew before us.…
The Kitchen's Garden 