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Musings of our Colorful Collection of Farm Animals and Homesteading Pursuits on a Swamp in Central Florida

*The Coming Steam*

*The Coming Steam*

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We try to get up early…… For the past months it’s been a regular routine…get up…open up the house…let in the morning air…and let out the night time staleness (i.e. slumbering hound flatulence)….. I’d like to say…I would be comfortable leaving the windows open all night long…but I’m not….. Some of the house’s windows are low…and too close to the outside ground….. Some of the windows have been replaced in the house where…

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~~~Duck Eggs For Breakfast~~~

~~~Duck Eggs For Breakfast~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Runner Ducks are seasonal layers….. They lay wonderfully large eggs…in the Springtime….. We’ve been taking advantage of their super-sized eggs this Spring….. Poached eggs for breakfast are the best….. Poached eggs on toast is even better….. Runner Ducks have tiny little ineffective wings…they can’t get off the ground with them….. …..they like mud…and love water….. The ducks have an inability to fly up into the nesting boxes that the chickens use for their…

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~When The Party’s Over~

~When The Party’s Over~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* In the past…(and currently)…… …..we’ve been the roadside rest stop for buzzards….. There’s something appealing about our land….. …..(I suppose that’s a bit macabre)…(and maybe I should be a little bit insulted)….. Nice roosts…nice shade…nice stagnant water source….. Some people don’t like vultures…(with good reason)….. Sometimes the birds have less that socially acceptable behaviors…(by a long shot)….. …..like their eating habits & taste palette…which could be considered less than popularly desirable….. But they…

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~Here We Go Round~

~Here We Go Round~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We don’t have a mulberry bush…we have a mulberry tree….. Normally it bears fruit prolifically….. The squirrels…crows…and general bird population…and ME do battle to collect the berries….. This year was no exception…with regard to the quantity of mulberries….. …..but the foliage is not right….. There’s a lot of fruit…but the leaves feel dry and they are curled at the edges….. They aren’t falling off…but they are sparser than usual…and they sure aren’t happy…

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The Bunny Plan…(Revised)

The Bunny Plan…(Revised)

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* We have a lot of “revisions” and/or “revisitations” of ideas here on our little farm….. …..I’d rather call them “revisitations” instead of mistakes….. …..potatoes…potatoes….. …..(and again…that expression looses something in print)….. My original idea of raising meat rabbits hasn’t quite gone as planned….. I mean…the rabbits did just fine…it’s the project that didn’t launch as expected….. But I’m not giving up….. At the beginning…I had cut and J-clipped the wire cages together… I…

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——-Bees…Again——-

——-Bees…Again——-

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Well…Here Goes….. I’m about to do it again….. I love the little bastards…(they scare me so)…(I feel like I owe it to Mother Nature to keep trying)….. Down here in sunny sub-tropical Florida…starting up new bee hives is usually done after the commercial citrus bloom is completed….. …..when the beekeepers have more time to evaluate their hives…make new ones…and follow the blooming spring…as it follows the sun’s seasonal warming northward….. If you think…

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~~~Willow Knows~~~

~~~Willow Knows~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Yesterday morning we took Willow to Doctor Russell…to confirm that she was pregnant….. She’s been getting paunchy….. Her appetite has increased….. She’s been a little bit more verbal and whiny….. All the things that point to her probably being pregnant….. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ …..Well…The Joke’s On Us….. …..and Willow is snickering….. Willow is NOT in a Family Way….. Ha!….. She’s paunchier………….because she’s eating more….. Doctor Russell said it was hard to read the x-rays…because her…

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*****Plant Sale*****

*****Plant Sale*****

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* My younger daughter has a job in horticulture….. We were fortunate to live in Florida…because she was able to attend the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind (FSDB) in St. Augustine….. It was a life-changer for her….. And after graduating from FSDB…she went on to complete more schooling at the Florida First Coast Technical College (FCTC) in horticulture…*****(First Coast Technical College)***** This last weekend we went to the Biannual Plant Sale at…

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Is There More Than One Way To Skin A Cat(s)?…

Is There More Than One Way To Skin A Cat(s)?…

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I’ve decided there is a conscious feline group-effort to ruin my night’s sleep….. My younger daughter has her Papillon (Danny) with her on her bed…who stands guard…and refuses any cats entry into their bedroom….. My older daughter has her Jack Russell (Drogo)–(and a screen door)…and none of the cats can get into her bed…(and survive)….. But me(?)….. …..I’m not so lucky….. …..I’m free game….. Mine is the only duvet they have access to…mine…

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~~~?Have You Heard?~~~

~~~?Have You Heard?~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Maybe you haven’t heard….. …..but there’s going to be a total eclipse of the Sun today across the U.S.A….. Maybe it might have slipped by unnoticed….. But I’m here to let you know….. *****It’s going to happen today***** *****(Mark Twain and Bing Crosby and Eclipses)***** It was a surprise in the book and movie—“The Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur’s Court”—but it’s happened in a lot of books and movies. *****(from…”The Simpsons” to “2001…

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