Tag: calves
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There be spiders –
Every morning now, early, after John has left for work and before anyone else is awake I walk down the creek path and across the bridge and down the road to let the calves out and see them into their new field. Yesterday morning the sun came up into a cloud of low fog. The…
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To Kelly’s Creek Farm
What is it with cats and hammocks? And the crossword.Clever cat. When John pulled the Black Mariah out of the front doors of the crib at the Kelly Creek Barn, we needed the trailer to relocate the calves to their new quarters, with his truck. I bought the tractor around so we could pull THIS out the back doors. A gorgeous…
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Chook Steps
Mr Pink fascinates me, she has come out of her creep and is the gentlest little chicken I have ever known. And now that she gets food in her own little hidey hole she is growing very fast. She likes to be stroked and is the perfect chicken for visiting children. Did you see her feet though, she has…
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The Fair
Every year our little local town, a small town with a big heart, hosts a local fair. The Fair has been going on for more than 160 years now. The side shows are deliciously gaudy and the food is inedible on the street, but that is what it is all about and there is a whole hall filled…
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Late Late For a..
… well you know the rest. I woke late this morning! Yesterday was another sweet day. The sheep slept with Mama who was chewing her cud and watching the world go by from her bed in the field. The plonkers laid about in the long grass. The calves slept in the sun. Thrilled that the…
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