Tag: tomatoes
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Normal storms
Last nights storm was so loud!. The dogs tried once again to climb under the furniture. The wind was high and the lightening endless. But I am over worrying about them. It is always a surprise when the storms roll in after a hot day of work out under the sun. But very quickly they…
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A murmur
A Murmuration. Not a murmur – a murmuration. Of starlings. The first of the starlings always come half way through the summer and line up on the power lines watching the crops grow. Waiting for the corn. By harvest time there will be thousands of them doing daily air shows. They were swooping over my…
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Let’s call the whole thing off
Here is my first tomato. I have officially won the yearly competition to produce a tomato before the 4th of July. A little tomato to be sure. But still the promise of more to come. How to grow a winning tomato? Allow any size in the competition. Grow in a very sheltered flower garden at the bottom…
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Prone Cats and Sleeping Calves
John has so much work now that he is working six days a week, leaving at 4 in the morning and not getting home until after seven. Lady Astor and I wait for him. John has an habitual cough and when she hears him cough, as he walks from his truck to the barn after pulling…
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The Kitchens Triangle
Kitchen, Garden, Table. There is a lot of canning going on right about now. They call it canning in America. In New Zealand we call this bottling. Though neither makes sense when the food is put in JARS – so it should be called JARRING. So, there has been a lot of jarring going on…
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