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Rambling Anne: Strawberries, garlics, and walking onions

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Saturday, November 10, 2012. Strawberries, garlics, and walking onions. Couldn't ask for better weather! We're about to take off to put in a strawberry patch in at one of the other gardens we work. The area has already been prepped. Lots of compost turned in to fluff up the soil and add nutrients, stones that have surfaced have been removed. all set and ready to go! Isn't that always the case every year? What I am also excited about (and it's making me wish spring was already here! Got my garlic in too, ...

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Rambling Anne: March 2014

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Thursday, March 13, 2014. Next week the chicks should be ready at the hatchery! It's a "straight run", meaning they are not sexed. Knowing my luck I'll pick out mostly roos. again, so we're getting 26, That's the plan anyways. In the mix this time, we will be adding 10 Ameraucanas, 10 Buff Orpingtons and 6 Golden Lace Wyandottes. I'm keeping on top of the butternut squash from last summer, a little over 20 are left. If you are looking for ideas on how to use squash in different ways. I've started flats o...

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Rambling Anne: waiting for spring

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Wednesday, February 19, 2014. Yesterday and today we actually got into the low 40's! After so many sub-zero days, it's like a heat wave. Just warm enough to make me stir crazy and not warm enough to get going. A big sloppy mess outside, but the monster snowdrifts are going to need a lot more to melt away. The Barred Rock and Rhode Island Red hens started laying back in January. My blue egg layers just started last week. So far so good and I've been able to keep up with using them. You still suck ;)=.

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Rambling Anne: Murphy's law and the tasty cableboy

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012. Murphy's law and the tasty cableboy. Not long after the last post. Murphy's law activated. The sewer line is old terra cotta pipe that tree roots have been invading. A problem we have been having to deal with repeatedly. Add to that water weeping in after a decent rain. YAY! So the house settled just enough that the sewer line was utterly kaput in several locations. Hundreds of pounds of produce in my house. and no plumbing! Things are finally in working order. LMAO Me- oh he...

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Rambling Anne: May 2012

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Thursday, May 31, 2012. You know what they say when you assume. More than a few times I encounter situations, posts, concepts where the misguided thought seems to be that products produced for animals and pets are also automatically safe for people. They are not tested the same, there is less regard to quality, safety, allergic reaction, etc. An example is dog food, where cancerous and diseased meat not fit for human consumption is deemed just fine for Rover's dinner. Grab some Campden tablets. (Why&...

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Canadian Mama Prepping for Tomorrow: April 2011

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Canadian Mama Prepping for Tomorrow. Thursday, 7 April 2011. In this house potatoes rule! Yes, we eat rice and pasta but potatoes are king around here! I have always been a snob about "fake" potatoes. I would never have dreamed of serving them to my family. I have faded memories of the few times my mother served them and they were a disgusting pasty memory. The ingredient list is small, potatoes, sea salt and dried milk, so they actually are potatoes! Harvest earth creamy mash potatoes. It's a rainy, glo...

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Sandflies, Cyclones and Pumpkin: Camping

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Sandflies, Cyclones and Pumpkin. Sunday, July 8, 2012. We are now home from our camping trip. Being away from everything is such great time out. There was no mobile phone reception, no electricity, no computers, no running water apart from the river, but there was quiet, the wind, the river, large interesting trees and a crackling fire. Really, what more could you want, I could hear myself and it was lovely to just be. Sunset on the river. We loved our time away, the homesteads are isolated and the cows ...

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Embracing Collapse: June 2012

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Embracing what is and living in harmony with nature.". Recommended Reading, Watching and Listening. Monday, June 4, 2012. Bringing Home the Honey. I looked out on the deck to see if I could see him in the garden below and noticed his bee hat and winter gloves sitting on a table on the deck. I proceeded to unpack the car and put the groceries away thinking it was a good possibility we had bees again. It makes it so much sweeter not to have to purchase bees with something so unnatural as money, especially ...

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Embracing Collapse: July 2012

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Embracing what is and living in harmony with nature.". Recommended Reading, Watching and Listening. Sunday, July 29, 2012. Was thinking as I worked in the garden watering the Marshmallow and admiring its first bloom. Why is it that many of the climate change deniers in our country believe in some form of organized religion and probably God? Us, on the other hand do not believe in any form of organized religion but believe in humans. Wow, did I just say that? What’s up with that? We’ve had some say ...

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Embracing Collapse: April 2014

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Embracing what is and living in harmony with nature.". Recommended Reading, Watching and Listening. Sunday, April 20, 2014. April has always been a hard month for me. I lost the first true love of my life in high school while Spring was in bloom, last year this month I lost my big brother who entertained my conversations about which he already knew and just a week ago, another man who had such a huge impact on my life, took his, with a bullet to the head. My husband's favorite worn out gardening shirt.