Tag: farmlife
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The Dishes
Now that Alissa is gone and the woofing is finished I have to do all the dishes by myself! Dammit -I forgot about that. There is quite a bit of blood in Lady Astors milk now – whatever the trauma was to her udder it is beginning to show. I am milking three times a…
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Weather coming in
My beautiful field almost ready to be baled and now there is weather coming in early this afternoon. So I am going to try and get it baled and into the barn before the storms roll in. There are three fields like this. I cannot lose another lot. I think most will be well dry –…
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Aunty Del
Poor Aunty Del cannot quite understand why she is not allowed in the milking room eve-ery morning. She leans her head over the door and looks quite perplexed watching her friend Astor loudly munch her GM free treats while being milked. Molly broke through a fence yesterday. Pigs always find the weak spot in fences.…
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The gangs all here
Aunty Del has come back to the home paddocks. She very happily leapt up into the stock trailer and I drove her over from the West Farm. I missed her. She brought Lady Astor’s bobby with her. She spent quite a bit of time leaning over the fence watching Wai the litte rescue potbelly waddle…
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Wai’s eyes
While we forked hay up into my hay wagon and dragged the trailer up to the corridor paddock to make the hay into a haystack… A very rough looking beginning to the haystack but it will do. The grass had been down too long to mold into a waterproof shape. Wai shouted out from…
The Kitchen's Garden 