Category: Vines and Wine
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A Route 66 Reconnoitre
When I was small I wondered whether the colours that I saw were the same as the colours you saw. I wondered if what we both called blue was as blue to me, as it was to you. I asked my mother,” What if the green of your eyes is not the same green I…
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Pigs build Nests just like Birds but not in a Tree
If pigs have the materials available they will build a birthing nest for their piglets. Even pigs farrowing in confinement show signs of attempting to gather materials. Chewing at bars and trying to rip away the sides of their pens. It is all very ancient but although Charlotte is in the barn, and not outside…
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What to do when your puppy brings you rat poison
After your heart has sunk. And you have reached into his reluctant mouth and carefully lifted the offending little brick of poison over his teeth and out of his mouth. We were visiting a friend and it was one of those moments when you are chatting and not watching the dogs as closely as you…
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Walkabout the Farmy between Storms and a Piggy Anniversary!
I love that word: Storm. It has such weight! Such potential. Such compassion when it storms above your head but does not break it. And such callousness when it does. The dogs and I walked the perimeter with Camera House between squalls yesterday to see what you might see and the benefit of all this…
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Floods in the Fields
This is why I have water in the basement. Our little house looks like it is on an island. But that is a field of corn under water. The farmer who rents this field will have to replant but for the moment no tractor can get near this muddy field. Meadow has decided that the…
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