Category: Photography
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Drama in the skies
This little plane was spraying something on a nearby field and banked and turned above the barn a number of times. We had our own little airshow for a few minutes. Though what they were spraying, who knows. Big dog as a shadow. When my cowboy hat blew off TonTon was thrilled to retrieve it.…
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Look what I found yesterday morning!
You will have to squint your eyes and look very, very carefully. Pania has come back… … with One teensy weensy peachick. Of course his/her name will be Chickpea. However it is a dangerous world out there so we will only whisper that name for a while. When she calls him she has a TockTock…
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The Kiwi has Landed and so has a new Moggie
The roof on The Coupe, the most beautiful little apartment being built for The Matriarchs retirement that will be a guest house until she gets old, (which is not yet) has finally been finished, every gutter, every cap, every little bit of every little everything is finally on. Rooves are like jigsaws every piece must…
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Diatomaceous earth kills the bad squash eating bug
I want dill pickles, lots of them. Pickled gherkins. Baby cucumbers in cider vinegar with a little dill. We eat them all winter. But there is a wicked little insect that is determined to thwart my attempts to fill the cellar with pickles. You know the bug that burrows into the stem of all kinds…
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I can’t see you, so you can’t see me and a floating chook!
Little piggy games. Funny dog Games. Yesterday we sowed all the high summer vegetables all over again. The secret to growing lots of food across a whole summer is successive plantings. Already we are eating like kings. Last night we had lamb burgers flavoured with mint and fresh garlic, slathered with a chimichurri made from…
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