Category: Life
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How wonderful ..
The first day of 2014. I have a good feeling. The sun rose white and cold into the blue sky on the last day of 2013. There was even a little snow. I still love snow. I hope I don’t jinx it but things have been quietly, quiet and deeply, blissfully uneventful around here…
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Sheila goes walkies down by the creek
Sheila the big pig is getting a bit too big. Fat I think. So Ton and I took her for a little walk. After she had managed to get past the new compost heap, we had a nice wee trot around the back. Going back in and out of the Logan’s gate often so she…
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Breaking all the Rules of Carpentry
While we have been farming, my friend the cabinet maker has been building the shelves/ cabinets for the Coupe. The Coupe is a Tiny House being built adjoining our Home. Our Johns Mother will live there when she is ready to retire. Until then it will be a divine little guest house. Everything is…
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A one legged rooster is not really one legged
The chooks, roosters and the guineas swap feet when they are standing in the cold, one foot up, then that foot down and then another foot up, like a wee boy in his thin pajamas showing too much ankle on the cold bathroom floor desperately waiting for the toilet. Hurry UUUUP! His feet taking turns…
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The Christmas Owl
Oh Owl. You look so pretty. But where is your Christmas scarf and why are you Carrying your star? I thought we agreed that you would Wear the star. You know. To be more Christmassy. I don’t want to be a Christmas Owl, miss c. Do I look like a tree? I am not a…
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