Tag: Barn
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Hop and Pop Pops Up
– Poppy. Trying to jump the gate. Because BooBoo was drinking milk on the other side. Shades of the old Hop and Pop. A terrifying thought. Gave the poor dog quite the fright. Lady Astor has won a gold star every day for six days now. No kicking at all. Though I did not let the…
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Permanence – there isn’t any..
You know how you think about stuff as you work. Well, the idea of permanence has been wandering about in my head. How I have this list of stuff that I want to do and then when it is all done I have this idea that the I will be DONE and then things will be good…
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Everything in its place
The Easter Chicks are more than happy where they are –but the Turkey House has happy meat chicks in it. Federico has finished The Turkey Brooder House with a circle of windows around the top, so the chicks are draft free down on the floor but well ventilated with pull up sections to let in sun and…
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Easterly
The Easterly is my least favourite wind, our prevailing wind is the Sou’ wester. All the trees bend that way, so the sleeping arrangements in the barn have (like the trees) evolved as shelters bending to shield themselves from this wind. When a cold Easterly comes flying in with snow and rain on its back…
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Cats in Hiding
The kittens have heard that next week they are off to have their ‘operations.’ So they are exploring hiding places. I can still see you, you know. Hide again. I can still see you this time too. Egoli quite likes riding in the car and wonders if he can take his perfectly healthy paw for…
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