Category: Photography
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Growing Good Grass in Spring Storms
Yesterday morning, after doing the chores and various jobs around the farmy, Big Dog, TonTon, Mary’s Cat and I went for our usual early morning walk through the long grass down by the creek which is now a ditch, and along the fences, checking the boundaries, and out into the new fields. To grow…
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Don’t you know it is rude to Stare!
Yesterday the bees were out. The two remaining hives seem to be doing very well. When my help is home on the weekend we will look inside their hives and do a health check. Kupa was caught going about his ablutions. Vigorously. He has reminded me that I promised to go to the Bantam Swap…
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Walkabout the Farmy on May Day.
Ton and I had a busy productive day yesterday. I called the Swine Herd Man and apparently Sheila the Babe is only a week old, evidently pigs will also make you wait, even though you think you know when they are due, so she will be allowed to leave her Mother in a month. Waiting…
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Minty, TonTon and The chicks get some Retirement Home loving!
We were still setting up at the retirement home when the residents started arriving. At one point I said to one of the nurses, wow there are a lot of people here and she said, Oh my dear, that is only one wing, there are two more coming. The corridors were rippling with slow moving…
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Minty and the bloat
Bloat is a terrible killer of bottle fed lambs. And before I go any further Minty did pull through so do not panic. You know if something does go seriously wrong like that I will tell you in plain language. But I was horrified… … when I came back from the Old Codgers, to find her…
The Kitchen's Garden 