Category: Farming
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Why am I cold?
I am cold this morning. It is 54F/12C. This is downright chilly for high summer out here. You know how you are fast asleep in bed but woken by being cold but not THAT cold, just cold enough to WANT to get up and get another cover for the bed, but NOT cold enough to…
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No Looking
The songs of night insects were the biggest change during the eclipse of August 2017. For a good ten minutes of so the crickets sung and the birds went quiet. We were way too far North to see anything but a partial cover of the suns surface viewed through a dirty welding helmet but close…
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A Set Back
As I was cleaning WaiWai this morning I broke through a ayer of fat and I found maggots growing under the last flap of skin from the deepest wound. This area just refuses to let go of that hard fatty dead scab. And the flies found a way in. Lovely Saturday discussion isn’t it! I…
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Long Whiskers
Have you noticed that kittens have a full set of really long whiskers. Not like us older cats, our whiskers all torn and shortened with time. We must be careful not to step all over the young ones dreams, they leave them lying all over the place. They have not learned to hide them like…
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No title today
I can’t think of one. This morning the chickens leave, they are almost all sold. And on Friday we pick all the egg plant and thyme and capsicums – sell those. The eggs are selling well still but I am still having trouble with dirty eggs, free range chickens have this draw back. WaiWai does…
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