Category: Photography
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Knots Up
We did fencing yesterday. The middle sized pigs are pushing their fence outwards as they race up and down chasing cars in a mad kiind of gaggle. My UPS man – who visits almost every farm and house in the area -said he has never seen such hilarious pigs. They will knock each other sprawling to race the…
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A Time to Bake
In the winter I seldom bake and almost never bake bread. If I bake it I have to eat it and you know how that goes. But now it is spring and my workers are beginning to slowly filter in (more coming next week) so I have begun to wind up the baking routine. Here…
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The rise and fall of pig coats
Molly is very uncomfortable. These last few days she does not lie down, standing or pacing about all day. At night she is sleeping but no nest making or sign of milk yet. We go for a walk every day, it is too close to her confinement period to leave her outside but when we go…
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So it begins
The first of the summer people has arrived. His name is Alex – he is from California and he is going to be great. I got his arrival date wrong so he is here a week ahead of my schedule and right on time for his. Already he is fully engaged. Last night we took…
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Not Yet
I do have a second date for Molly and it looks to me like she will go all the way to that date. Her girth is widening as the piglets do their last burst of growing but her udder is still not filling up. So I am thinking she might go all the way to Thursday.…
The Kitchen's Garden 