Tag: countrylife
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All Except One

Chickens are not kind. They do peck each other. I found one pecking at Wai the other day – to my horror- his skin is fragile enough. But this chook had half her side torn off by her flock of white chickens. Basically skinned. It has healed somewhat but all the feathers are gone from…
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What is different about you today?

What if we woke up each morning and asked ourselves: “What is different about me today.” This is yesterday morning: Very cold. Frozen. The leaves were tumbling from the trees. This was last night when I drove up the drive. This is this morning: Last week it was in the 80’s and muggy yesterday was…
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Tima’s Point Of View. What Hogs See.

Here is Tima’s little house. Below is what Tima (the kunekune ) sees from the bed in her house. She sees the porch of the farm-house. Point of View is everything. And Tima has a room with a view! There has been so much rain lately that I crawled in to her bed to check…
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Building fences with BooBoo

Fencing is my least favourite job. But BooBoo is always happiest outside with me. Ton is not fond of fencing because he hates loud noises (especially when I am driving in the fencing posts with the post bommy-knocker thingy) and he will always race back to the house. But once Boo has put his toys…
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Robin Red Breast has arrived

I saw the first robin yesterday. Is spring here yet? Um no. Because it was literally slating for a short while. Covering the windows in ice that almost immediately melted back off. But the robins did not care. They know change is on the way. I tried to take a photo of the red breasted…

