Tag: farming
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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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Prone Cats and Sleeping Calves
John has so much work now that he is working six days a week, leaving at 4 in the morning and not getting home until after seven. Lady Astor and I wait for him. John has an habitual cough and when she hears him cough, as he walks from his truck to the barn after pulling…
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The Woods
OK. It has been a rough 36 hours. Or how many hours? Since Saturday morning anyway. It feels like a week. We are not out of the woods yet but I do see the light a little. The calf scours have not got the better of us yet. I have three calves looking quite good- still not…
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Chicks and Calves
Today is going to be a busy one. Soon the girls and I will drive over and pick up fifty more chicks from Jake’s brooder house. These are the last of the ones for the family freezers. The Chicken Caravan is in a new field ready and waiting. And hopefully a couple of calves will be delivered…
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train delays
Tomoyo missed her first train last night and the second one was horribly delayed. This happens often with the railway system here. So we did not get home until way too late and now I have over slept and poor you have a shortened version of yesterday. John had the day off yesterday so he picked up my…
The Kitchen's Garden 