Tag: pigs
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A Bad Worker Blames His Tools
If I waited until I had the proper gear for each of my ventures I would never get anything done at all. Instead I use what I have lying around. Like this stock trailer. I put a big iron hog house inside this trailer, filled the in-between space between walls of the hog house and…
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We Can Do This
After months of clear weather the sky out here in central Illinois has turned sullen and leaden. Days of it. Right until sunset then the sun fans her elegant fingers into the gap between sky and low clouds and the world lilts into spectacular panoramic colour. The sky lifts her petticoat clouds just a little…
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Keeping Food out of Dumpsters
I am working through my list, getting the last things ticked off before I leave for the antipodes in a couple of weeks. The winter wall has gone up for the hens. This is an old ping pong table we found that fits almost completely across the lower front of the chook house. It took…
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A Pumpkin a day keeps the Doctor Away
The cows are eating six or seven pumpkins a day. The pigs eat one between them. Even the chickens eat pumpkin! But I think it might take a while to get through our huge load. This image (below) was taken at the property of the boy down the road who grew and sold almost 5000…
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The Long Low Light.
In every way. Low in the sky. Late in the day. And rain was coming. And I had been cleaning out the barn. R and I had been talking as we were sweeping. She went outside to grab something. Popping her head back around the post she says. They are listening. The cows. Standing just…
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