Tag: pigs
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Away, and back
Yesterday I rose at 5am, fed the pigs and filled the waters, shifted the cows and ran the dogs, then changed, put my hair up, found my city boots, searched high and low for a slap of lipstick then jogged out the door by 7.15 am so I could drive North and catch the 8.30 train to…
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Taking the sun
Though it is cold enough for me to be wearing my winter farm jacket now, Poppy’s babies still came out with her today to play in the autumnal sun. Tane and Tima have shifted into their winter home. It will a bit of a jig saw getting everyone a pen in the barns with an…
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How Are you?
This is such a strange question to ask a person – “How are you?” This word ARE. How ARE you? The book tells me that ARE means “Second person singular and plural and first and third person plural present indicative of be” Ok, that makes a lot of sense. About as clear as mud I think.…
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Creeps
We never got the piglets new fence finished yesterday but maybe tomorrow. Farm work has a delightful endlessness, there is always more to do but when you don’t quite finish every job it does not really matter – there is always tomorrow. The important thing is to do a little every day towards completion. Feeding…
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Good Order
I am still waiting for the pawpaws to ripen so I can make the pawpaw ice-cream. They are late this year. I hope they ripen before it gets cold as it is already getting coldER. You asked me how I keep track of everything. This is a board Victoria sent me, it lives in the…
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