Category: Life
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Extreme Images of A Storm
Late yesterday morning I saw this great broody cloud coming over the horizon like a huge intergalactic mother ship, I dropped what I was doing and sprinting past the long list of work I should have been doing, I collected my camera, jumped in the truck and went storm chasing. I love these images. The skies…
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Aunty Del is Pumping
Aunty Del is such a good house cow that I have decided to keep her as long as I am able. She seems to have hit her stride and now she is pumping along. She swans into the milking shed without hesitation, milks eating her greens or hay though she still refuses to leave when she is…
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Not too Bad
Other than a few trees down including the beloved old cooking apple tree, and a young maple most of the damage from the storm was from flying branches and debris. And not too bad. The cows are very clean! The gardens will be ok but the corn and sunflowers will never be the same again.…
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Calmer
Hopefully today will be calmer. I still have a couple of teenagers and their baby staying for another week or so. But the Frenchmen and I are hoping for a calmer day today. Something nice and ordinary would do the trick. We got all the hay in yesterday morning. Stacked up into the barn working…
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A murmur
A Murmuration. Not a murmur – a murmuration. Of starlings. The first of the starlings always come half way through the summer and line up on the power lines watching the crops grow. Waiting for the corn. By harvest time there will be thousands of them doing daily air shows. They were swooping over my…
The Kitchen's Garden 