Tag: farming
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Who has Been Sitting in My Chair!
New rule: No more adolescent chooks sitting on my chair! Cheeky bastards. No respect! I have let the cows out into the big summer field. They are beyond happy. The field they are sharing with the big pigs undergoes a resow this year. Oats and grasses and maybe even sunflowers. The cows love this deep…
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Sadly Mr Flowers has Passed Over
Yesterday morning Our John found Mr Flowers dead under his usual night-time perch in the barn. Dead on the floor. There was no evidence of a predator. No battle. He appears to have died in his sleep. and fallen off his perch. It is a miserable loss to the farm. To us. John dug a…
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Last Big Farm Day
Today is a big day on the farm – getting it all ready for my 6 weeks away. I have help coming. Then Saturday I will focus on the house. First stop San Francisco on Sunday (leaving early) then out to Melbourne Monday night – late – so I will have plenty of time to…
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Hooligans and Shenanigans
And what on earth is a Dutch Baby? This fluffy German pancake is often called a Dutch Baby, (what?). Aunty Google tells me it is also called a Puff Pancake, Dutch Puff, Hooligan Pancake, and some call it Pannenkoeken or a Hootenanny. Hooligans We like to call it a Hooligan. Because when it puffs up…
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It’s freezing!! Again.
Way below freezing again this morning. And the winter fires were declared over and out – all finished – just last week after I climbed up onto the roof and put the anti bird nest hat on top of the chimney. A dangerous exercise if ever there was one but already the starlings were flying…
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