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Showing posts with label farm life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label farm life. Show all posts
Monday, February 10, 2014

It's not winter in Harmony until ...

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… someone big slides off the driveway into the south pasture. Our old oil supplier is no longer providing this service, so I warned t...
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Sunday, December 23, 2012

From all of us at Brandywine Farm

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Monday, November 28, 2011

Snapshot Sunday: Chickies Have Two Mommies

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These two hens went broody within about five days of one another. I gave each of them a private nest box filled with eggs in a large unused...
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Monday, September 5, 2011

Macro Monday: Hornworms' Lament

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“ Fish gotta swim and birds gotta fly . Insects, it seems, gotta do one horrible thing after another. ” -- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tink...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

Photo Phriday: Commensal

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She hops up onto the back deck -- three steps up -- nearly every night, and stations herself by the glass door. There she picks off the bugs...
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Friday, May 27, 2011

Photo Phriday: Cow. Dogs.

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More later; Blogger is crawling along tonight. Brandywine Briar Rose and Caledonia Danny Boy. I do not remember the name uf da cow.
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Monday, April 25, 2011

Bucked Over

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Guess what Edina produced today? Now, Eddie, Patsy, I want you to attend to the weather this week. Not the wether -- there are going to be...
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Friday, April 22, 2011

Photo Good Phriday: Eoster Greetings

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This weekend we will search the farm for hidden nests of eggs, and the leporaria for more nests of new rabbits. We will eat flesh and candy ...
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Monday, April 18, 2011

Oh Hell

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My name is little Bongo* I sing my little song-0 ... ________________ *No ears were eaten in the making of this post. It appears that there...
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Sunday, April 17, 2011

Snapshot Sunday: Monolith

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Spring or not, the asparagus is coming.
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Saturday, April 16, 2011

Sneaky Kidder

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My best guess last fall about the goatgirls' due date was today. I suggested to PC last week that he schedule the monthly AMRG training...
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Friday, April 15, 2011

Rural Gods III: The Empire of Bubbahotep

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The Emperor Bubba-Hotep His historic empire* stretched from Maryland to Missouri. Some say it still does. He and his sons and brothers an...
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Friday, April 8, 2011

Photo Phriday: Another Fine Pickle

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Secundus is an idiot. This is how I found him this afternoon, at least 50' from the shed where this panel had been propped up overnight ...
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Thursday, March 3, 2011

Rural Gods II: The Sex-Change Fairy

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The Sex-Change Fairy and her peeps Y-Gor and The Mighty ZedWu Y-Gor and his sister The Mighty ZedWu determine the biological sex, ...
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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

Eclipse

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I had thought that I'd be posting amateur photographs of the solstice eclipse yesterday. Skies were winter-clarified and bright, and the...
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Thursday, December 16, 2010

Food/Feed Part One: Nitrogen is Nitrogen

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The students at Sheep School (aka classes offered in conjunction with the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival ) were a mixed lot: a few experi...
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Thursday, November 25, 2010

Happy Thanksgiving

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Dad...?
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Friday, November 19, 2010

Twitterpated

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What? Walt Disney got the biology of critters wrong ? Say it ain't so! Spring is not the season of twitterpated. At least it isn...
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Thursday, November 18, 2010

Well Enough Alone

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I just won't leave it. For one thing, I need to provide some entertainment for Randy at the feed mill. For another, I'm cheap. But m...
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Tuesday, September 28, 2010

Charter of Freewarren

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A Note for Naysayers Nobody, even the most avid animal-rights fanatics, needs to worry about depriving caged rabbits of their liberty. Thos...
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