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I am Cecilia. A New Zealander who farms in Illinois.
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UNSIGHTLY ANGLE
Yesterday we received over an inch of rain. Oh. Happy New Year! In America! Sorry, keep forgetting things like that. The social niceties! Anyway we got over an inch -there is so much water in the ground and so little evaporation at this time of year.
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POURING UP
Yesterday was sunny and warm – a good day for shoveling the proverbial and getting things in order. Today I awake to pouring down rain – though it would look pretty silly if it was pouring UP. Below is my work of the day. I am taking a big rubbish bag out and cleaning up…
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LEACHING COLOUR
Slowly the colour is draining from the landscape. Very slowly. Inexorably. Without pity. Even though it is still a New Zealand winter the green is going.
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HOME, AND IT IS STILL WET
After dragging myself and my suitcase across America and back again I was more than happy to put on my work clothes and get stuck in to farming again. After being away a few days in the tidy suburbs It strikes me is what a lot of junk we have accumulated over the last few…
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HOME AGAIN
Working flat out on this weeks assignment! I will be in tomorrow morning – just thought I would let you know.
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I GOT A CALL THIS MORNING
That Molly the big sow is in the neighbors barn eating his cow feed ( which by the way is disgusting stuff having 10 percent of meat byproduct in it).
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