Category: Living the life
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Only one Rule
You have to excuse my post titles. The Rule is that The Title has to be the first thing that comes to my poor beleaguered mind. This is Naomi (Lady Astors daughter) and the Header is Sheila with her walnut nose. When the pigs eat walnuts their noses go orange! Hugo and I were discussing rules…
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Bird brains
One of Hugo’s chicks jumped out of her brooder and took her good self for a walk into the glass house yesterday. These chicks who I purposely bred with one of the new dappled roosters, are so pretty and robust. The turkeys have taken it upon themselves to sleep in the barn every night now. It…
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The Power of Light
I did not post early this morning because I wanted to make sure that Molly and Tahiti were on the road to recovery. All yesterday afternoon we struggled with the two gilts. Vomiting and diarrhea. Bad. The Vet thinks they either ate something poisonous, carried in with the weeds or the straw or the hay,…
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The Last of the Summer People
The last of my summer visitors has gone home. Yesterday Megan’s family had the tour then packed her into the car and off she went. I have been so lucky with my summer visitors this year. You met them all – some have become and will remain very good friends. So now it is only Hugo and…
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The Day of Pigs
On the loose. Hugo and I made a dash for the feed store and the the grocery store (which was not as successful as I remember – it has been so long since I was in the supermarket that they have changed everything around.) So I lost more than I found anything and of course Hugo…
The Kitchen's Garden 