Tag: thekitchensgarden
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In-Heriting those ears

Txiki has inherited her ears from her red head mother. Txiki’s mother is Alex, the little red cow who looks like a shaggy mountain pony – Alex is spending time with Carlos the Tiny. Both are Dexters. Txiki (Alex’s daughter) is a cross between a Dexter and a low line Angus, she looks like a shiny…
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Oh No – Not Dreary!

John looked at this picture over my shoulder last night and said, you are not showing them that dreary photo are you? I said, when it is dreary the blog shows dreary. He is appalled. But if we don’t see the dreary side how can we possibly appreciate the sparkling side. I think there is a…
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A Nasty Day Ahead

Wind and Cold. It was windy all night and as I write on my disappearing keyboard (the letters are almost all gone again) the wind is howling outside and it is 20F/-6C. This does not include windchill. The windchill equation brings us down to 4F/-15C but I have no interest in that number! I have to…
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Cows Love Snow

I did take lots of incidental pictures of the snow yesterday, from the porch, from the barn, in the fields, but none of them SAID anything. And if a photograph does not tell you a story or open a memory, or offer a challenge – it is worthless. Perfect, pretty, technically correct photographs are not always…
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New Grass in November!

The Tweens have had their electric fences taken down and once they got over their electric fence conditioning they moved across the line, where the wire was and began to chow down on the thick grass and clover. To be able to get onto fresh new grass in November is such a bonus. They…

