Category: Photography
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Struggling to Farm in the deep cold and driving snow
Yesterday the snow and the wind fought it out all day and into the night. The umpire fled, the cheerleaders bolted. The game deteriorated into a brawl. It was all about hard faced driving snow. Snow piling up just where you want to walk, then blowing itself up into, around and ahead of the next…
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The Gift of a Day to Prepare for a Storm.
Yesterday was almost warm. I know it doesn’t look terribly warm, and blowing so the snow was washed up into beachy tidal drifts but warm enough so I could spend hours outside preparing the barn and my animals for the deep cold that is forecast. Though I will believe the weather when I see it.…
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So far so good
It was minus -10C (-23F) when I went out to start the chores yesterday morning. And the animals were handling it well. Double rations and lots of extra bedding seems to be working so far. By lunchtime we were above zero. Which was nice. Do you remember me saying the other day that getting up…
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How wonderful ..
The first day of 2014. I have a good feeling. The sun rose white and cold into the blue sky on the last day of 2013. There was even a little snow. I still love snow. I hope I don’t jinx it but things have been quietly, quiet and deeply, blissfully uneventful around here…
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My Monsters and I go for a Walk and Wonder about Stuff
The sun is so low that when it does pop out through a crack in the solid grey that is our sky, all our shadows make us look like monsters. Screen left is Boo and screen right is Sheila. Off on our walk. Everyone wants to check out the compost heap on the way. Off…
The Kitchen's Garden 