Category: Life
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The Great New Zealand Barbeque
All us expats live with two homes. Lucky us. Unlucky us. We can meet and eat and laugh and drink with some of the most important people in our entire lives at the great New Zealand barbie, set in an urban vegetable garden with wine and laughter and still worry about the ones we love and have left…
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In between Time
I am sitting in my hotel room in Los Angeles, California. I have a long list of paper work that is not really paper work it is all done on the computer but you know what I mean. First order of the day for us is to write the questionnaire for potential woofers. Young women…
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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…
The Kitchen's Garden 