Category: Photography
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POPPY’S SEVEN
Poppy had a very slow start. One wild live baby, one dead (long dead) one then a bad time where I had to go in and bring out the piglet who was stuck, so now there were two. Then one more dead one. Then Poppy got up and had some dinner and lay back down…
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THE LADY PIG FARMER
I did not set out to be a pig farmer but there you are. Yesterday when I was talking to the man who was going to reverse my trailer into a tight spot, I heard someone else say behind me, in a low voice, to someone I could not see “Oh, that’s Cecilia. She’s the Lady…
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FRIED EGGS
At last I am back on the farm! I have been out delivering hogs on the most awful roads. Usually this is a fifty minute drive in the big truck hauling the stock trailer. But this morning about twenty minutes into the dawn drive, with three hogs in the trailer and two dogs sitting ramrod…
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IN HEAT
Every now and then we have to talk of “country matters.” Molly came into heat yesterday and Manu was invited to “visit”.
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REALITY
Yesterday, when my new second-hand shelves arrived in three random boxes ready for me to put the shelves together without directions and with pieces missing, I thought how this would be a fun game to play on a Reality TV show. The player is handed a box with no labels and no instructions and not only must…
The Kitchen's Garden 