Tag: pigs
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Bad Frost and another Loss.
This morning we have a bad frost. I still have so much in the garden not quite ready to harvest. So it is bad luck. Last night before we drove up to meet eldest son’s bus from the airport, we covered the frog garden with a tarpaulin. And other favourite tender plants with blankets. Especially…
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Pigs love Milk
Beautiful Daughter, who you will remember is in Melbourne, still reads the Farmy pages every day. She was on the phone yesterday. Write more stories, she says. I said, it is summer here I don’t start the real writing until December 26. I cannot think of a single story in the summer. I am too…
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Herding Pigs. I mean the PIGS were doing the herding!
As I was admiring the flowers in my garden. I noticed Mama laying about in the sun, but not looking quite right. On closer inspection she has a lesion above her hoof. I needed to bring her into the barn for some attention. So after the milking I led them all in. It is easier…
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Welcome to my Long Life of glorious Littleness
Sometimes I think we worry too much. That our lives are too small and won’t amount to much. When they already have mounted up. And the weight of my life in gold would be too heavy to carry anyway. If we worry too much we will forget how glorious our little lives are. Ithink it…
The Kitchen's Garden 