Tag: homesteading
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A perfect housekeeper is my pig.
Every evening before bed-time Sheila has a little routine. I am allowed to place her clean straw on top of the old straw and she carefully tears it apart and pushes it this way and that until he has a nice high soft bed. She spends some time getting it just right before she settles…
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The Duke of Kupa gets all tied up
The day dawned windy and cold yesterday. So on with the clown suit and out I went. Yes that is a piggie on the wrong side of the electric fence. It should have been here. During the morning chores I saw this. Not good. Not good at all. The wind must have blown this unbreakable…
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Sunflowers are not for sissies
A cheerful scene. Not autumnal at all. Though I am very fond of that word – autumnal. Sunflowers are not for sissies. And judging by yesterdays comments there are no sissies in our Fellowship. Of course flowers would have been enough for a Sunday post. But the morning light was so beautiful yesterday. Our…
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Beauty Is as Beauty Does.
Sometimes we don’t need many words. Sometimes we need the words of the masters. Because we are surrounded in beauty. “Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.” ― Anne Frank “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” ― Marc Riboud “Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it.”…
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The Bee Hive goes Up a Level
Still wrapped in the gentleness of the summer glide we had a productive day yesterday. Summer sauce went into jars. Dried capsicum into jars. Stuff I am not going to eat came Out of jars and into the mouths of my piglets. I have a terrible habit of keeping things in jars just because they…
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