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Monthly Archives: Aug 2015

Gardening

Chickens and Eggs, Cats & Dogs…

Aug 28, 2015 Nadine Pierce 2 Comments

We’ve had our ladies a couple of months now – and we LOVE them – such entertaining creatures. I feel like the Pied Piper as they follow me all around the garden.

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Sandy’s Homegrown Pasta Sauce

Aug 27, 2015 Nadine Pierce 2 Comments

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The garden has been ‘difficult’ this year with the excess of rain and cold temperature. Some things like the rhubarb, strawberries, carrots and parsnips are all doing great but things like radishes, mizuna, spinach and rocket just haven’t been any where near as good as last year.

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We’ve got our first egg!!!!

Aug 12, 2015 Nadine Pierce Leave a comment

Super excited to find our very first egg in the coop this morning – well done Ladies!

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It’s been a long 6 weeks of checking, even though we knew realistically we probably wouldn’t get any until about now.

It’s a little on the small side but it is very definitely blue!

Hopefully they’ll just keep coming now.

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