Tag: hay
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Knocking holes in walls is Deeply Satisfying.
Don’t you think? Do you ever go to peoples houses to visit and silently imagine knocking walls out, reorganising doors, rearranging their furniture and redesigning their lighting. I do. It is an affliction. I console myself with knocking holes in my own walls. I just don’t like walls very much you see. When I was…
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Shuffling the cards of cows.
On the way out to milk yesterday morning we were greeted with a cheerful little shower of powdery snow. Just a little. Then it melted before our eyes. Ah well. When I counted the hay bales the other day, and after doing the rather rudimentary maths associated with this exercise, which frankly is as far…
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Getting Re-Antiquated
I know that heading (above) makes no sense but I have a challenge that once I have written my title I must keep it. Sometimes the weirdest phrases and re-spellings get stuck in my head. I am very grateful that you are all the kind of kind people who bear with the slight eccentricities that…
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We usually have break outs…
…not break INS. I know this is hard to see but at the end of the pig sty is .. well WAS a fence.. The Shush sisters have been loitering in their summer fields, and hanging out in the sun-room on the South side of the barn, which meant that I had moved the Bobby…
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I got the plum job because Girls can drive Tractors too you know.
Yesterday in the late afternoon we baled and brought in the hay from The Haymakers Field. Not a lot of hay. After all this is the first harvest of the first season of the Haymakers Field. It was not a pretty field. We have had very little rain this season and consequently the alfalfa had…
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