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*Continued Milton Clean-Up*

*Continued Milton Clean-Up*

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Hurricane Milton blew out one of the walls of the chicken coop….. I felt bad for the old biddies…when we checked on the outside damage the next morning after Milton had passed….. …..and we saw them all sitting on their normal perches…but their fluffy backsides were exposed to the entire front yard….. We were able to keep them temporarily safe with some quickly nailed up wood scraps….. …..but a permanent fixed needed to…

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Well…we did find out more regarding the vandalism to our fencing….. …..we found a 3rd cut in the backyard fence….. We haven’t heard yipping from any nearby coyote packs at night….. Doctor Brigid did say that her guardian llamas in their goat pasture were running and acting oddly….. …..but thankfully…no continued livestock attacks….. Maybe a bobcat…but…not a bobcat with a bolt cutters….. The Black Friday Sale surveillance camera purchases are starting to arrive……..

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***What If***

***What If***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** In Retrospect………….(hindsight being 20/20)….. What If….. …..all the time…and headache…and worry…and preparations that are put into each year’s Hurricane Season…actually worked as a weight-reduction program?….. What If…all the meteorological angst actually allowed you to burn off some of those extra rolls and chunky bumps?….. I know I’m possibly being illogical….. …..but…What If?….. There would be at least one up-side to each year’s impending Season-of-Doom….. You’d be able so say…”But Hey…I lost twenty-five pounds…so…

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***Two More Trees***

***Two More Trees***

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** We’re planning the next stage of our post-Milton clean-up….. The pasture fencing….. We have to get the Live Oak trees off the barn and off the fencing….. The pasture fencing is really messed up…and we haven’t been able to turn on the electric charger since the hurricane….. Those two Oakes are really big…and old…and it’s really sad that they’re gone….. I think it was that tornado that skipped through our farm during the…

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*****Freedom*****

*****Freedom*****

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Remember the movie “Braveheart” with Mel Gibson playing William Wallace…and his rally for Freedom?….. My hurricane-secured livestock (who we had safely stalled in our barn)…decided to break out….. Lots of young goats…as well as MaMa Pig…scurrying and bounding everywhere…(MaMa Pig doesn’t scurry…she rolls along with her sizable authority)….. These beasties did an organized/combined jail break….. They probably concentrated on the old lower boards….. Too much standing water…too much flooding…added to their escapability….. …..and let’s…

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…….Oh!…Please!…….

…….Oh!…Please!…….

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** No!…No!…No!…No!…No!…No!…No!….. Patty?….. What happened to the “O” storm…wait…who was the “N” storm?….. Apparently I’ve been missing a lot…while staring into slack-jawed oblivion since Milton….. Atlantic Names 2024 2025 2026 2027 2028 2029 Alberto Beryl Chris Debby Ernesto Francine Gordon Helene Isaac Joyce Kirk Leslie Milton Nadine Oscar Patty Rafael Sara Tony Valerie William Andrea Barry Chantal Dexter Erin Fernand Gabrielle Humberto Imelda Jerry Karen Lorenzo Melissa Nestor Olga Pablo Rebekah Sebastien Tanya Van…

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~~~The Trees~~~

~~~The Trees~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Something that takes so long to grow….. …..it may have been here before me….. …..it could have been here after me….. It was so sad to see it go….. With both Milton’s and Helene’s tantrums…so much was lost….. Not the least of which were the amount of big ancient Oak trees….. Every time I venture out…it’s so sad and amazing to see the residual damage from the storms….. We lost a number of…

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*******It’s Halloween*******

*******It’s Halloween*******

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Oh!  Look!…It’s almost Halloween….. How did that happen?….. I know….. It was called Milton…there was an applicable meme circulating after the hurricane…let me see if I can copy it here….. I love this time of year…(after the hurricane winds die down)…it’s a pleasure to be outside…the sun is at a beautiful golden angle…there’s usually a pleasant (non-drippy/steamy/soggy) breeze…the summer’s mold is dying off….. Ahhhhhhh………….the Autumn….. Good Times….. And with it comes the fun…

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~~~When In Doubt~~~

~~~When In Doubt~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** When in doubt….. …..buy more pigs….. …..apparently…that’s become a thing….. Interspersed with all of our hurricane clean up…and then perusing Craig’s List during rest breaks…we came across a pig farm who was struggling with post-Milton water issues….. An unfortunate farm a little south of us had most of their pastures flood….. …..short…inflexible pigs with snouts about four to six inches above the ground…can’t deal with too much submerging or water….. The people were…

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…..The Next Day And The Next…..

…..The Next Day And The Next…..

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** It’s another day at the oasis….. There are lots of things to do…it’s a farm…so there are always…lots and lots of things to do….. And then Milton steamrolled through…and added so much more….. But yesterday…I went “out” for the first time (since Milton)….. I meant it when I said…”I don’t get out much”….. I don’t have to…I don’t want to….. …..so I don’t….. Having a one-way conversation with Pascal…in the Cloud…is good enough…

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