Tag: turkeys
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Rain on a Tin Roof
Such a sweet, sweet sound. Especially after months without much rain at all. And all the corn is out. The harvesters are finished. So the rain came at the right time for our fields. Tima and Wai are free again! Tima. Such a dear when she is not bossing Wai around. They need distance those…
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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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That Dawn Again!
I was up before the dawn today. Letting the dogs out and opening the door for the white chickens to get onto the grass and making my cup of tea before I scuttled back to my bed still warm from a nights restful sleep and jumped in so that I could write to you. It…
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How to tell if a Pumpkin is ready to harvest.
Good morning. Our pumpkin patch is almost ready to harvest. And I am feeling comfortable enough to call this season a success! I have never grown a proper pumpkin patch before but we have piles of little kids around now and so Our John wanted to grow them a pumpkin each. The kids will carve…
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You know the saying :
If you have live stock you are going to have dead stock. I know that is the way of it. But I hate it anyway. Sadly the huge teenage mutant turkey gave up the ghost. With its badly formed wings and massively long legs it was more stalk than turkey. But was very sweet tempered.…
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