Category: homesteading
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Animals, children and runaways
Days filled with people. \Laughing Runaway pigs. And bright angel birds. Nights filled with sleep of all kinds. Now, back to Your Book. July 1st is my deadline. I hope you all find something today that makes you laugh out loud. your friend on the farm celi
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The Silvery Moon
Last night after a dinner picked from the garden my visitors from the city and the dogs and I walked down the back and sat in the long grass for a long time, watching the Sly Silvery Full Moon steal all the light from the sky. Watching it rise and glow. And flourish. It was huge…
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Time with it’s Laws
Morning. Evening. Time will move along. As we move along in its clear wake from gentle cool spring into an unknown summer. The laws of time are rock. Our rock. I hope you all have a lovely day. Your friend celi
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It is a calf’s life
A calf’s Tale. Look at that Calf’s Tail! Up in the air with delight. Aunty Del had such a wonderful day out in the fields with her Daisy that at bed time she walked straight to her corner, snuggled down and went straight to sleep. I had to wake her for dinner. Aunty Del. Daisy…
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Kidnapping
Well, a kidnapping of a calf actually. I went out to milk yesterday morning – no sign of Daisy and no sign of Aunty Del and no sign of Marcel (Aunty Del’s ever present minder.) Then I saw them all, way down the back of Daisy’s field. Daisy the latch picker had removed the nail that…
The Kitchen's Garden 