Category: homesteading
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Lady A
Oops, I am late. Just got back in. I went to bed early last night, and got up late. I must have needed the extra sleep. Mucking out the stalls is hard work. And my muscles are still wintery and stiff. It is all go outside – warm and gorgeous. So this morning the cows…
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Spring Sounds
As Gracie and I worked, yesterday morning, hauling out fork-fulls of winter bedding and spreading it across the corridor field, flock after flock of geese flew overhead, crying out with their distinctive melancholic call. But they were flying North. No need for melancholy. They have decided that the warm-up is on its way. I am…
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Pre-Warp Speed
How we reached pre-warp speed so fast I have no idea. (What was pre warp speed called anyway – cruise? But Warp speed is on its way!) But yesterday had everything happening at once. Thankfully I had Gracie and the Cadet to help out. And John is still waiting for his call back to work…
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Man Walking
It was warm enough yesterday to once more walk down the familiar track alongside the Creek that is really a Ditch- – to the Farm across the Way. We have not done this walk in months and it felt Marvellous. This familiar sight once more. The big white barn. This is the Point of View…
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Above freezing!
ABOVE FREEZING! So I shoveled manure for a couple of hours,(still cleaning out the calving pen) then my neighbour and I worked on the goats pen. Goats jump so everything is heightened! They should be arriving in the next few weeks. Then she helped John and I carry one of the pig huts into the…
The Kitchen's Garden 