Tag: pigs
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Ugly Bits
I watched myself crop an image to extract an empty feed bag that had blown into a corner of the barn and felt dishonest. I tidy with the crop tool!. I just did not have the energy to pick up and dispose of the feed bag. I will soon – maybe today but there is a…
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Not too Bad
Other than a few trees down including the beloved old cooking apple tree, and a young maple most of the damage from the storm was from flying branches and debris. And not too bad. The cows are very clean! The gardens will be ok but the corn and sunflowers will never be the same again.…
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Calmer
Hopefully today will be calmer. I still have a couple of teenagers and their baby staying for another week or so. But the Frenchmen and I are hoping for a calmer day today. Something nice and ordinary would do the trick. We got all the hay in yesterday morning. Stacked up into the barn working…
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Growing in the Hot Storms
It is hot and muggy. Wet. As I am writing (4.45am) we are in the midst of quite a squall. The gale force winds have softened to just very high winds so I went through the torrential rain to check the animals and the barn is quiet and cosy – the animals opening one eye each to watch my…
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Here’s a problem!
Three and a half months ago there was a big bad storm that blew in the big door at the West Barn. When I got to the barn the following morning Manu (Hereford Boar) was in with Molly and Tahiti(Hereford gilts) . Do you remember? As soon as I could I separated them back out and…
The Kitchen's Garden 