Category: Photography
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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…
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The Kitchen’s Garden’s 2013 Garden has Begun.
Is that even a sentence? There must be about four grammatical errors in that title! However: the broccoli is up. The cabbages, leeks, celery and onions are sown. And the first wave of tomatoes have been sown too. The gardens have begun. No spring in sight but I can see the beginnings of the spring…
The Kitchen's Garden 