Tag: winter
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That kind of cold
Miss c’s almanac says; get ready for another cold winter. Bad cold. I know it is summer and we are just beginning to harvest, and the last thing we want to think about is the winter. But if you live a simple old fashioned farm life like we do we are always thinking about the winter.…
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A drop. A Promise.
We are surrounded in white on white, cold on cold, the hunch and squeak of boots on packed snow beginning to sound like fingernails on a black-board made for chalk. The night before last was -11 (-23C), last night was -21( -30C). As I write just before dawn the temperature continues on its toboggan…
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So far so good
It was minus -10C (-23F) when I went out to start the chores yesterday morning. And the animals were handling it well. Double rations and lots of extra bedding seems to be working so far. By lunchtime we were above zero. Which was nice. Do you remember me saying the other day that getting up…
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small child mobbed by wild lambies
Armed with his bottle and a layer of extra anti nibbling clothing our intrepid wee warrior climbed into the pen with the wild untamed lambies. Poor kid never stood a chance. The quads just LOVE him. And only two are bottle fed remember! Barely escaped with…
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Marauding pigs break into the chook-run
Then realised that the run is not where the food is and only the winter door was open, which is only big enough for a chicken. And the netting that they had broken in through did not allow them to break back out. So they called for help, and I had to lift the netting…
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