Category: homesteading
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Two days to go!
Imagine a life where the mosquitoes were as big as mice. It could have happened you know. And right about now we are heaving with mosquitoes. So I am kind of grateful they are so small. They seldom actually bite me which is nice but no-0ne wants to stand next to me when we are picking…
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Tane Mahuta
Yesterday Tane Mahuta was loaded into Kim’s car and off we went to the vet. Thank Goodness for Kim and her car. After another 79 dollars we discovered that he has thrown his hip out a bit and developed a secondary infection. He has a temperature of 104 degrees (between 100 and 102 is normal) so he…
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Handle the Jandal
In New Zealand we call Flip Flops: Jandals. On the East Coast of America there is a rumour that they were called Clipper Cloppers. (I really like that name). Boots the Orange kitten just calls them A Pillow. As usual some days Poppy looks pregnant other days not so much but there is no arguing that…
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The Diet Chain
When we were children growing up on the beach we had a dog, her name was Tessa, she was a Golden Labrador Cross (no-one was terribly sure what she was crossed with) – often she would run off up the beach road and up to the little shops around the bay and beg for scraps from…
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Cows, cows, cows and a pig.
Poppy the pig, it was so cold yesterday Sheila took to her bed and Poppy spent the day gazing mournfully out the door. The brown cows are all together again. Finally, says Aunty Del. We have discovered that Lady Astor will stand completely still and sweet if John stands at her head and practically hand…
The Kitchen's Garden 