Category: Vines and Wine
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Glorious Failures
My boot on the ramp of the tractor, yarning about cows and pigs and hay. This is what I was missing. Yarning. The hay man was here, with his dad and his sons. All with an opinion about the state of the hay – each opinion was considered – chewed and nodded over. There was time.…
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Shy kitten blowing kisses. Don’t be fooled though. Manouchki has been observed sleeping with dogs and also with pigs. She and Tima appear to have an arrangement whereby Tima lies really still and Manouchki lies on her back kneading all the knots out of those little pig shoulders. True. I am stalking them today to…
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Books and Chicks
The Books are Here! (Well, Half the books are here due to a wee mix up at the printers but I am sure they will do their best to fix up this error today and hopefully send them asap. Melissa my copilot is onto it and will let us know how that is going.) However…
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I was going to leave …
… the calves out in their fields last night. Everything seemed calm over there at the big barn across the way. Local dogs being good. Local dogs owners making sure of it. Then as I brought them in last night I saw the fresh HEAD of a small animal laying in the grass. It was pale. And…
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The Kitchens Triangle
Kitchen, Garden, Table. There is a lot of canning going on right about now. They call it canning in America. In New Zealand we call this bottling. Though neither makes sense when the food is put in JARS – so it should be called JARRING. So, there has been a lot of jarring going on…
The Kitchen's Garden 