Tag: countrylife
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Sharing The Puddle
For some extraordinary reason – puddles have better water than bowls. Especially in the rain. The retirement home for chooks is growing! Though this one black chicken in the front of the above shot is a layer. When we sort out the hen house she will go back in. Some of the roosters are being…
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A Pumpkin a day keeps the Doctor Away
The cows are eating six or seven pumpkins a day. The pigs eat one between them. Even the chickens eat pumpkin! But I think it might take a while to get through our huge load. This image (below) was taken at the property of the boy down the road who grew and sold almost 5000…
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Winterizing the Pond
How did it get to be Friday already? Natures brilliant colour is summers last hurrah. Summers departure is now imminent. Cold is coming. The chimneys have been cleaned and the big fire is lit. I had an excellent discussion with a pond person the other day; trying to get my head around preparing the fish…
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Tackling Farm Tasks in a Gale
These pictures look calm. Right? They may look calm but yesterday as we tackled the odd jobs around the farm we worked in loud gale force winds. So loud R and I were shouting to each other so we could be heard. We cleaned out the stock trailer. So naturally Tima lay in the doorway…
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Under the Eagle Eyes of a Black Cat
As Black Cat watched from high on his tower of hay, the plonkers, the group we called The Charlottes, had a gallop through the fields, upset all the other pigs with their exuberance then proceeded through the barn exactly according to the script. Like a boat going through a lock, they moved through the barn.…
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