Tag: farming
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nanowrimo without the capitals
Last year I signed up for nanowrimo. And finished in 21 days. It is an interesting concept. Basically it is a dare. You dare yourself to write 50,000 words towards a novel, hopefully including a beginning a middle and an end – in one month. The month of November. No-one but me reads it. No-one…
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The lack of chatter in the box
I discovered an interesting thing about myself while I was away. Maybe I knew it along. Have you ever worked in an old fashioned darkroom. With film, good old fashioned honest film. You expose your image with a light projector through the negative and onto the photo paper, then in your dark room you slide…
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How a dog breaks the shell of an egg
Daisy is a tall cow. Every day Boo gets an egg straight from the chook house. He will throw it up into the air so it will break when it falls and I tried to get this shot. Often it takes three or four throws. But my attention wandered for an instant and he was…
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Life is One Great Big Exciting Challenge
The September Home Grown Challenge. Yes, I am still eating off the farm and have decided that when I do this for a year (feed myself only from my own farm) it will be BOREDOM that gets to me in the end. I do have food, but it is the same food over and…
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So, How Many Days are there in September?
This piggie has cauliflower ears.. must be all that rugby out in the field. So, how many days until the end of September? We have run into a problem I did not foresee. We have eaten all the greens, there are no more tasty greens in the garden at the moment. The kale is decimated,…
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