Category: Vines and Wine
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Sky Night Light
In the evening after a good rain, and we have a good rain almost every day lately, the sun will often slide through the dark broody clouds and rest its benevolent underwater eye on the landscape. The greens change to lime, the golds to rich honey and there is just so much forgiveness in the sky. We…
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L’air …
Yesterday the air felt dense. Not hot and not cold, just full and thick. The clouds stayed low, heavy, old, bosomy. Like flat pillows. There was no wind and little sound. Even the birds were quiet. The night crickets played their instrumental feet softly as though the night was nigh – all day their orchestra played. The day…
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A Small Success
The chickens that we were able to transfer into the layers house, laid some EGGS! I was thrilled to find these six eggs, laid in the proper little laying box with its little door for collection. No more crawling all over the loft in the barn trying to find eggs. There are more chooks to…
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Dogs walk
Now that I am not milking in the evenings it feels like I have so much more time for weeding and walking. Two of my favourite past-times. The beans in the fields are so tall already Boo has to pogo jump through them so he can see where he is going. Long beautiful wild grasses.…
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Walkies
Every week I try and set an objective for the week. This coming week it is to get the pigs walking again. Somehow over the last few weeks Sheila’s walks have been forgotton. But the last two evenings we have gone on excursions, accompanied by Poppy of course. Sheila is deeply out of shape. It…
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