Category: homesteading
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Chicks and Chicks
The hay is cut. We have four days ahead of us with sun, and not too humid. I have even taken a picture of the weather forecast for you so you can see that I am not imagining it. We have had so much rain lately that seeing sunny days ahead of us is a treat.…
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The small smiles
When I was about thirteen I began work for my Dad in his workshop at the estuary by the sea. It was the school holidays. Dad built boats. The sea and all its surrounds were our breath and bread and butter. Dad was teaching me to weld that summer. One day he got me to move a whole…
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bred
The girls have been bred by the Lady Vet and her very long very skinny silver syringe that she stores down her top so it does not get cold. Both procedures went smoothly. In a little over a month we will take blood samples for a pregnancy test. Fingers crossed now. If I had a penny for…
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Toot Toot
I am sorry – ‘Toot Toot’ has nothing to do with anything, it is just a sound I make when I am moving an animal aside. It is just so cheerful, musical even. Just a childish ‘Toot Toot’ all by your self out in the field. The other day a friend and I were talking…
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‘Tis a puzzle meant
You will all remember that Hairy MacLairy left the property to go to the big farm over the rise in mid January. Due to the high rate of problem deliveries I decided not to have any more lambs. So he went off to play with some other ewes. Mid January. Yesterday I was taking photos of…
The Kitchen's Garden 