Category: Photography
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‘Success is the ability to go from one failure..
… to another failure, with no loss of enthusiasm’. Winston Churchill. I love that one, it describes us all so perfectly. It certainly describes this cheese as it proceeds with its metamorphosis from cheddar to puddle. Ah well. Churchill also said something about ‘success not being final and failure not being fatal.’ But that…
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You can run…
But you can’t hide. On the way to pick up the honey frames that the bees had cleaned. So I could pop them in the freezer for 24 hours to kill any bugs, then wrap them and store them for the winter. I saw this. Devastation. On the lower portion of the vines. The Vidal Blanc.…
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A day in the life of the Piggie Shush Sisters
I thought I would show you what the Shush Sisters get up to during the day. Charlotte and Sheila. My naughty Hereford piggies. The Shush Sisters have a night time residence in the barn. It has big inside sleeping quarters, that can be closed right up for the winter, and an outside concrete courtyard. In…
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When flawed is just perfect..
And imperfect is exactly right. Yesterday was one of those delicious days when nothing much happened. I went about my work. Not too energetically. Alone on the farm again. The quiet is getting quieter. The road is still blocked by construction from both directions, it has been like this all summer but they seem to…
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A crazy maze for bees
YES! John came home from work yesterday with a new washing machine on the back of his truck. It is small, efficient and most importantly – it works. I hate to buy new but in this instance new is cost effective. The old dead useless mammoth of a washing machine has been shuffled to the side…
The Kitchen's Garden 