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The Scent of Walnuts
Since my wicked bout with Covid in New Zealand I have had either no sense of smell or ALL the smells! My sense of smell comes in waves. And the other day after delivering another batch of found walnuts R – she is the BEST forager – R said her car smelt like walnuts. And…
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Chicks arrive Today
And I was worried about it being too hot! It being August and all. The traveling chicks might be too cold! These chicks will be grown for R’s freezer. Her families will be well fed this winter. After chores today I am going over to a friends pear tree. He has lots of windfalls arriving…
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The Carrot Stick Lady
A story for you: As a podcast if you would like to listen in: Listen Here. ‘Tell us the story of the Carrot Lady, Grandma,’ they say. They are like birds or butterflies or crickets – woodland nymphs, these children with my grandfather’s eyes and my mother’s curly hair: hovering, fluttering, their angels lazing in…
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Playing Snakes and Ladders: the real kind.
I don’t want to scare any of the people who are scared of snakes. So below is a nice benign image to begin. Though – The Fellowship is a pretty tough bunch after all these years. Quacker came shrieking over for some dinner yesterday evening. Still no sign of chicks. And it was while she…
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Can a Monarch Change the Law?
There is milk weed in the fields and milkweed down by the ditch that was a creek and milkweed in the kitchens garden even milkweed growing with the asparagus. But until 2017 many regions of Illinois had outlawed this plant. The poor monarch butterflies just had to miss out and consequently have run into deep…
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