Category: Photography
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Dinner is Break Time
Which is why country people eat early. Dinner is not the end of the day. Dinner is a break in the afternoon chores. Which is why I like to call it Tea! Though no one around here knows what I mean when I say that. At 5.30 I usually sit down for tea. No cats…
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Rising Before the Light
The time has come where I wake at 5.30am to make a cup of tea and start the earliest of early morning chores and it is still dark. Cool and Dark. It does make me a bit sad. The good news is that I get to watch the sun rise again. As the light makes…
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Everyone Gets in on the Act
The cows share the pig garden and a really great TKG Sunday Newsletter. And what’s with YouTube? Notes from the weekend. Out of nowhere the YouTube channel where I store little shorts of the farm is getting lots of traffic. Natural sound, handheld and unedited seem to be getting the most attention. There is more…
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How to tell if a Pumpkin is ready to harvest.
Good morning. Our pumpkin patch is almost ready to harvest. And I am feeling comfortable enough to call this season a success! I have never grown a proper pumpkin patch before but we have piles of little kids around now and so Our John wanted to grow them a pumpkin each. The kids will carve…
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You know the saying :
If you have live stock you are going to have dead stock. I know that is the way of it. But I hate it anyway. Sadly the huge teenage mutant turkey gave up the ghost. With its badly formed wings and massively long legs it was more stalk than turkey. But was very sweet tempered.…
The Kitchen's Garden 