Tag: farming
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Grumpy WaiWai
No piglets yet. And probably none coming. That is how I am thinking at the moment. I am waiting on one more breeder to get back to me. We may have missed our window again. But – ah well. The Chicks Still doing well! Here is a still from their video going out on TkG…
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Baby Birds in the Mail!
All the tiny birds arrived. And all the tiny birds are gorgeous. After two full days of travel they arrived us great condition. The ducks are, of course, perfect! There are five. Very shy. Two downy yellow and three brown and black. I have no idea what their feathers will be like which is kind…
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Frogs peeping – all night long!
It was a wet and cool rainy night last night. I love the rain on my tin roof. Perfect weather to sleep the night away with all the doors and windows open. The Spring Peepers were singing all night long. I collected a vid sound recording of them for our TKG Take Ten. Join HERE…
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Ride along on the Big Tractor
‘Is that you in the tractor’? I texted Farmer Ross. The big John Deere with its planter boxes had been slowly trolling back and forth around the house for a few hours. ‘Three minutes’, he texted back. So after a couple or three short minutes I walked out into the field. The ground flat and…
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Works, Works, Works.
Mowed. Trimmed. Strimmed. Cut hedges. And generally fought to tame the enormous green growth that follows spring in Central Illinois. (I could not even park my car – the hedge was so overgrown). My arms are up in arms (I am allergic to grass). There must be a particularly nasty grass out there. Itchy welt…
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