Tag: celi
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What makes you strong?
What gives you that last ounce of strength? What makes you reach for the impossible and win? What gives us the ability to tap that secret cache of power we all hold. What enables us to survive. To push through when the odds are so stacked against us it feels like hail in our faces. My friend,…
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At Last
An ordinary day. But a long one. This is the first time in a long time that I have been working all alone all day and I did not get the chores done until 8pm. However I WAS taking my time and everyone was fed and watered, even Our John, eventually. I have ten more…
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Pig television
Yesterday the gentle mid summer Lull continued. All the calves ate their meals like good little calves. Little is a tiny maybe little bit better but at least holding his own. He still smells bad and the flies are at him the way they always pick on animals who are sickly. I was watching him yesterday morning…
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Summer like cotton sheets
Yesterday I was feeding the chickens and suddenly looked up as I felt a Lull descend like a floating white cotton sheet upon the Farmy. A summer lull. Long before the times of fitted sheets, (which I hate by the way – they are useless when the elastic gives up), my mother would make the…
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The Song of a Sow
It is 5. 14 in the morning and outside the window hanging low in the Western sky is a bright full moon. I was texting with Fede last night and said to him Can you see the full moon and he said No, I can only see buildings. This was such a sad answer. Yesterday one…
The Kitchen's Garden 