Category: homesteading
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Stormy Chocolate Chip Cookies
Yesterday the first of the autumnal storms roared across the farm. These storms are very slim bands of weather. Hitting one farm and not the other. Wreaking havoc here and calm over there. Hugo laughed crazily and ran out into the storm. Josh had been recording the sounds of the storm in the corn (he…
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Have you noticed …
… That most of the time my images have nothing to do with what I write. Do you think this is because often we are watching what we are watching but thinking of other things at the same time? Multi tasking in the thinking department.. as well as just plain multi tasking. We got piles…
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Peachicks and sunflowers
Yesterday while working in the barn I heard a chirping that sounded both out of place and at the same time familiar. It was the chirp of an emerging peachick. I was sure of it. I climbed up the ladder to the loft to check Mrs Flowers but she was giving nothing away. Maybe tomorrow we…
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Living and Breathing
My shadows, the dogs, and I powered through the day yesterday. Everyone was living and breathing. It was a good and tiring day. We are getting the fields ready for the great reshuffle. Poppy is coming out today and Little and maybe Bobbi (if I can find some help) will be getting a wee field…
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Miles in a Day
I have a new phone – this in itself is not particularly interesting unless we need to go into the kicking and fighting I did trying not to have to succumb to another phone. I liked my old phone. However now I have a proper fancy phone and it has this very interesting button that…
The Kitchen's Garden 