Tag: hogs
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SLEEPING WITH THE WINDOWS OPEN
POPPY has her doors open wide now and everything is so much calmer in the farrowing pen. I have the windows open in the house and both of us are losing that claustrophobic feeling.
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THE LADY PIG FARMER
I did not set out to be a pig farmer but there you are. Yesterday when I was talking to the man who was going to reverse my trailer into a tight spot, I heard someone else say behind me, in a low voice, to someone I could not see “Oh, that’s Cecilia. She’s the Lady…
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IN HEAT
Every now and then we have to talk of “country matters.” Molly came into heat yesterday and Manu was invited to “visit”.
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REALITY
Yesterday, when my new second-hand shelves arrived in three random boxes ready for me to put the shelves together without directions and with pieces missing, I thought how this would be a fun game to play on a Reality TV show. The player is handed a box with no labels and no instructions and not only must…
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TWO BY TWO
I try so hard to allow myself to feel the contentment of what is in my moment. To lie in the damp sunlight and chew my cud. To wander from patch to patch lazily searching out green. Instead, I endlessly worry about things that have not even happened yet. Committing solution scenarios to memory. Looking for problems that…
The Kitchen's Garden 