Category: Life
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Boar Tusks – Up Close
Yesterday Inaki and I dug out the cows winter pen. This is a big spring job as I always have a deep bed of straw in the winter which is warm for the cows but a lot of heavy work in the spring. Thank God I have Inaki this year. We will have piles of compost…
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No such Luck
It was cold yesterday, below freezing, we left in the dark to drive up to the fairgrounds but even though there were crowds of people at the market, there was more a flea market feel to the affair, people sitting wrapped in blankets with the contents of their garages spread out before them. I felt…
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The girls decide
Have to run – we are leaving for the Bantam Swap early so here are yesterdays pics. What is wrong with those pictures? Naughty opportunistic pigs taking advantage of high winds and broken gates. And combine without fuss. And as they will be ten months in three weeks and are quite big enough, according to my…
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Fingerprints on my Clouds
Clouds are like fingerprints. There are never two the same. And they make a mark on the day. Today the peafowl went up to their spring quarters. This is so they do not devour an entire vegetable garden in a sitting which they can and have done in the past. So they stay in their…
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Possibly Poppy.
I have three entries in my diary – all possible farrowing dates for Poppy. They read. April 04 – Possibly Poppy. April 25 – Possibly Poppy. May 17 – Possibly Poppy. I don’t think it will be April 04. Poppy and all the other female pigs were extremely agitated and excitable yesterday. I watched them…
The Kitchen's Garden 