Category: Life
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Kunekune Fields

Conor’s last task as the resident guest worker was to help me put up an electric fence around the grapevines and the pine trees to create quite a big field for the kunekune. This is good for two reasons, Tima and Tane get a summer field with lots of trees and I don’t have to…
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The right side

An unborn calf bulges out the right side of a cow – her right side – (well, we knew that already) but here I have found a great article to explain this to us. How to know if a cow is pregnant. The site itself seems to be resting ( ps 7.46 am: I wrote ‘abandoned’ then Emily the…
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MagdalenAs (cupcakes)

When the rain finally gets too heavy to work outside the farmer comes inside to make some Magdalenas de Yogur from my new Basque cook book. I have never made these before and it is such a simple recipe I wanted to share it with you. Little yoghurt cakes. in the absence of Hackberries…
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Peek in the Barn

Lady Astor is still being put to bed early – much to her disgust. She would prefer that only the dairy women and men peek at the next shot, as it is only a documentation shot but interesting if you are a watcher of cows. And you all are. Mercy, what an education you are…
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Her tail …

Alex wears her tail like a train. It is so long but how I wish she would stand still so I could get a brush through it. She has the best tail, that wee Dexter cow but she prefers dreadlock look. My cow is a hippie. Carlos the Tiny having a scratch. We found some…

