Category: homesteading
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Not Thursday Yet
The Weather Mob are forecasting high temperatures for Thursday. (see below) In themselves the high temperatures are not a problem and not unusual: it is summer after all. But high temperatures after 5 inches of rain IS a problem because that brings excessive humidity. Though once again – not unusual. But I have two very pregnant pigs…
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Dogs in the Milk
The flood waters. The creek that is really a ditch has so much water in it that it looks like a long skinny lake. I wonder what our beaver does when he is flooded out like that. The water is literally lapping under the bridge. We had a huge amount of rain in that last…
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Extreme Images of A Storm
Late yesterday morning I saw this great broody cloud coming over the horizon like a huge intergalactic mother ship, I dropped what I was doing and sprinting past the long list of work I should have been doing, I collected my camera, jumped in the truck and went storm chasing. I love these images. The skies…
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Aunty Del is Pumping
Aunty Del is such a good house cow that I have decided to keep her as long as I am able. She seems to have hit her stride and now she is pumping along. She swans into the milking shed without hesitation, milks eating her greens or hay though she still refuses to leave when she is…
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Not too Bad
Other than a few trees down including the beloved old cooking apple tree, and a young maple most of the damage from the storm was from flying branches and debris. And not too bad. The cows are very clean! The gardens will be ok but the corn and sunflowers will never be the same again.…
The Kitchen's Garden 