Tag: farming
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Good Order
I am still waiting for the pawpaws to ripen so I can make the pawpaw ice-cream. They are late this year. I hope they ripen before it gets cold as it is already getting coldER. You asked me how I keep track of everything. This is a board Victoria sent me, it lives in the…
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Grim weather and Great Escapes
Yesterday began cold and blustery. Sprinkles of rain but nothing to write home about. This morning is more of the same. I hate to say it but winter is coming. Yesterday I miserably hunted out my winter jacket shook the spiders out of it and put it in the washing machine. John has sown the…
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Kicking!
I finally got Poppy to lie down for me and felt her babies kicking. So that is a relief! There are definitely babies in there. Plus she was immediately up to her old tricks of digging out the hole in the concrete and after yesterdays showers laying her belly in the cool water. Typical pregnant…
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I Know, I Know
There is something of an Autumnal air to the colours in the images I am collecting now but only in the surrounding crops. The farm and I are holding on Tooth and Nail to summer. I dread the winters here. Winter will come I know – but I prefer not to think about it yet.…
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Midnight milking
On my way down to once a day milking I milk every 18 hours for one cycle. This changes the cows from twice a day to once a day without trauma. But within that cycle is one midnight milking. It is actually a rather nice milking period once I have woken the cows up and brought…
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