Category: homesteading
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I think I might go to the beach
Look at my sunrise. Yes. You are right. There is no rising sun. No sun. No sky. Everything white and frozen. -7F (-21C). We have a hoar of a frost. The trees are creaking and cracking under this ice. This bitter prairie goodbye. I think I might go to the beach. I am packed weighed…
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How I travel
Oh how I wish I had more time to tell you about how I pack a bag, I have traveled so much in my life that I have a weird science when packing, (though everyone has a different method) and this time I have 75 beanie babies, a stunning Little Black Dress, lasagna pans, Gluten free rice lasagna, meatloaf…
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Too Fat
I am very particular about what my animals eat. Especially if I intend to eat that animal myself. But an animal that I am raising for the freezer is fed very differently from an animal that I am raising to keep. A pregnant animal eats very healthily but the feed is lean. We do not want their…
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Geyser
How often does one get to see a geyser in the kitchen? Fortunately not often at all. Yesterday my walls got a good clean with pulsing hot water. I had come in to fill a jug of warm water for the pigs, turned on the hot tap as you do and off it came in my…
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The camera sees all
I may have discovered the source of Godot’s strange behaviour. What do you think this is? One leg is black. Here is a close up. Is that dirt, from when he was stuck under the bush the other day? or something more sinister. He was fine yesterday. No limping, active. Eating drinking, Flying. Is it dirt?…
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