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Pigs

Holiday Hectic

December 16, 2010

Some year we’ll be all ready for winter, and just stoke the stove and start planning the garden. This wasn’t that year. This is our 21st year here. We’ve had enough firewood twice. This is not one of the two. I have the two heated water tanks all set up. To make up for that, [...]

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A muddy mess

December 13, 2010

About a week ago, I got a very polite inquiry from a reporter from a newspaper in Iceland, asking why we had so many Icelandic critters. Were we Icelandic? Had we visited? After chatting back and forth for several days, she wrote me today to point me to the article she’d written about our little [...]

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Winter’s Here

December 10, 2010

Winter arrived this week. We were about as ready as we ever are. Thanks to Birch we only have one sheep breeding group. There’s one ram lamb left, but he’d need a ladder as the saying is, which also means he’s not about to tangle with Birch. We have sheds for everyone except the turkeys, [...]

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More Icelandic Chickies

December 8, 2010

Some Icelandic chicks finally hatched today. Well, one hatched yesterday, and 8 more by mid-day today when I delivered them to Keene, and now there are 5 more, which she’ll come get tomorrow. (peep peep peep peep — not my favorite part of running the incubator, to be honest — I keep getting woken up [...]

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What’s for breakfast?

December 7, 2010

We spend a lot of time sorting through all of the stuff we scavenge for the pigs. (I’m getting really really good at scavenging.) These days, we are feeding them so much that it’s easier to just dump it all into the tractor bucket and then dump that on top of their trough, at least [...]

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Feet up

December 4, 2010

We’ve had a lot of heavy wind lately. One of the sheds we are making for the ducks (that must be finished soon!) is being recycled out of the wood from a shed that Albus and Gellert destroyed a couple of years ago. There are lots of boards with nails in them in a pile [...]

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The Last of the Harvest

November 26, 2010

I brought in the last of the leeks and carrots today, made horseradish and dug the dahlias. The ground is going to freeze any day now, so it’s time. There are still two parsley plants out there. I think I’ll scrounge a used window from my mom’s house and see if that will get them [...]

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