Tag: old barn
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Waiting on the bees
Today I hope. I have placed a red rug underneath the hives so that the weeds don’t grow through but now that I think abut it maybe I should turn that upside down. Can bees see red? I can’t remember. I shall look it up and fix that before I load the bees in. Yesterday…
Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Can pigs get morning sickness?
Charlotte is doing a lot of heaving herself about, snapping at Sheila, hogging all the food and has taken to lying on her side taking up most of the bed. Sheila is being long suffering. Charlotte is unrepentant. As you would expect. I have chosen the site for this years summer pig palace but it…
Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Siberian Sun
This is what we had yesterday. A dreadful siberian cold with sun and a wicked wind. Ironic considering that yesterday I said to you that I would take wind and sun over calm and cloud. So it blew a freezing gale! I still appreciated the sun though even if it was straight from Siberia. Every…
Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Onion Jam and Carrot Cake
I spent some time with my mother’s recipe book yesterday, which looks suspicously like my own. I thought I might try her custard recipe, (eggs you see!) but I understand now why she always ended up making it from the Edmonds Instant Custard packet. I cannot work out her recipe for Elaine’s custard either. I…
Cecilia Mary Gunther
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Why isn’t the list getting any Shorter?
Yesterday I reordered the order, and all the animals went in and out of the barn with ease and no escapes. So now the pens are all sorted out for the period that I am away. It is very lucky that pigs do not have digits or at the very least Daisy’s height. They would…
Cecilia Mary Gunther
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