Category: Photography
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Sheila gets miss c all to herself
Anytime I was outside yesterday, puddling about with the children, Sheila the Hereford pig was attached to my leg like a limpit, a really big limpit. Literally leaning on my leg as we walked about. She chatted and shared secrets, and followed me everywhere. Gossiping like a lonely country woman left too long in the hills. …
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Meet the boyfriend.
Yesterday was the day to take Charlotte the Hereford gilt to visit The Swineherd’s Boar for breeding purposes. Charlotte loaded herself up and we hitched the trailer to the red truck and trundled away to his little farm for her Valentines Day Week date with destiny. And look who we found. Meet the boyfriend. He…
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Making Wicks for Candles and Winter Honey
Yesterday was a rainy and blustery Sunday. Just the kind of Sunday we need when there is lots of work to do inside. I am two thirds of the way through decanting all the honey from the empty hives. Now I really have an awful of wax. I thought that on Thursday the home schooled…
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Rain. Rain falling with a relieved sigh.
I know some of you are expecting snow but we had hours and hours of rain yesterday and OH it was glorious. Quiet, firm and even heavy at times. All the animals stood out in it. I was milking an unrepentant, dripping wet cow. The fields are waterlogged. The troughs are overflowing. Just lovely. Though…
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Hairy MacLairy gets all Kissy Kissy
Farmy work never ends. Hairy loves children. He likes to Kiss them. When we were walking we stopped to listen to the rustle of the dried winter grasses and investigated tracks in the snow, and peeped into empty nests and ran up and down the pathways through the wild grass. On the way back even…
The Kitchen's Garden 