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Typical Man Moment
Submitted by Field Notes From Cumberland County blog on 05.18.12 at 8:12am.
It's time for the annual fishing trip and after an entire week of preparation (!), the boys headed out early Thursday morning for the four-hour trek to their lake and last night about nine o'clock, I took a call from the reception rock somewhere in Guysborough County.
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down the garden path
Submitted by Dream Big on 05.18.12 at 7:45am.
We moved to Nova Scotia four years ago, and are going through our fifth spring. Time sure does fly. Every spring, I have envied the many yards that have a red flowering shrub...they are quite common around here. One year, I mistakenly bought an azalea (but no flowering shrub is actually a mistake...
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WIld Flowers and Ferns
Submitted by Here and There on 05.18.12 at 7:32am.
Looks a bit foggy out there this morning, but it's really a bit early to tell (I'm back to a normal wake up hour). The temperature is +4.2 which is more seasonable and hopefully will turn out to be a nice day. Most of you will be finishing up your work week today in anticipation of the long weeke...
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The Case Of The Shrinking Rose Bush
Submitted by Ask Rosie Beaucoup blog on 05.17.12 at 8:42am.
Some mysteries are never solved. Where is Jimmy Hoffa? What happened to 2.0's missing navy sock? Are there puppies in heaven? What happened on the Mary Celeste?
Well, here's one that was put to rest around 7:30 this morning.
For several years, the rose bush Nearly Wild, situated on the corner o...
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Ducks, Bark, Berries and Giant Bugs
Submitted by Here and There on 05.17.12 at 7:39am.
Well it's 4:14am, has been raining hard, thundering and lightening for the last little while. Temperature is way up there at +15.4. Will be a long day as I've been up since 1am. Wasn't I complaining a while back about not have any morning quiet time, be careful what you wish for.
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Should be sleeping
Submitted by Nearer Still blog on 05.16.12 at 8:42am.
A few more from March and April
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Identify?
Submitted by Little Homestead in the Valley on 05.16.12 at 8:40am.
I have some shrubs that I need identifying. If I like them, I'm going to propagate them and put the babies in more practical locations. Do you have any idea what they are?
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Community News Comes First
Submitted by Field Notes From Cumberland County blog on 05.16.12 at 8:16am.
First and foremost, The Oxford Journal is a community news paper. This is what we do best and what we are appreciated for. For the first time, The Journal submitted entries to the annual Atlantic Community Newspaper Awards competition which allowed our paper to be judged in the General Excellence...
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Ducks, Swallows & Clouds
Submitted by Here and There on 05.16.12 at 7:16am.
It's Wednesday, the middle of the week and my day off. Having a break midway through is great except...... it seems to rain every Wednesday lately. Very mild this morning at +13.7, makes it hard to sleep when it's this warm. I'm up again earlier than usual, thanks to a four legged girl named Lex...
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Mish mash
Submitted by Nearer Still blog on 05.15.12 at 8:58am.
It's day 21 on our next round of chicks in our incubator. Six have hatched so far and several more have pipped. we're glued to the plastic window like it's a television.
-I had an OB appointment today. yes, I actually go to them occasionally. drove fifteen minutes to get there, unloaded th...
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Pine Needles, Quince and Odd trees
Submitted by Here and There on 05.15.12 at 7:38am.
Sun is coming up, temperature is +11.6, seems it may be a warm day. Long weekend coming up, I think I better dig out some lighter weight clothes. That's always fun. There are the things that no longer fit and probably didn't last year but....... you know you hold on to them just in case as more t...
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mother's day
Submitted by Twenty-Two Pleasant on 05.14.12 at 8:30am.
Thanks so much for all of your comments on last week's post about height! Of course people shouldn't be judged by their height or any other feature, but I do think that it happens. Think of expressions that we use, like 'to look down on someone', 'belittle', and 'small-minded'. Maybe it's more of...
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A Weekend To Go To The Cottage
Submitted by Field Notes From Cumberland County blog on 05.14.12 at 8:12am.
The road we live on is the direct route from Oxford and Springhill to the beach so it was busy yesterday afternoon once everyone returned home from church and taking Mother to lunch. One pick-up truck went by with two new lawn chairs in the back along with a trailer carrying a lawn mower - a comm...
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Believe In Dreams
Submitted by Dream Big on 05.14.12 at 7:28am.
This was a window commission that I worked on a while ago. I enjoyed it hanging in our living room for a while, and just added the grout yesterday. I chose a lighter grout than usual (sand instead of black)...I thought it would look nicer since all the glass is in pastels. The frame was sanded an...
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Apple Blossoms, the Geese and more Spring flowers
Submitted by Here and There blog on 05.14.12 at 6:58am.
Hey it's Monday again! Where does the week go? Temperature is +9.5 so it promises to be a warm day, too dark to tell about much else but I think it's suppose to be nice. Back to the grind this morning. Feels like my little getaway was a hundred years ago now, but it was good to be home again.
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A trot along the Waterfront
Submitted by Here and There blog on 05.11.12 at 7:26am.
No rain this morning, and it feels mild still - no thermometer in my room so I don't have an exact temperature. Off to the Archives this morning, then Dorothy & I have tickets for the Chris deBurgh concert tonight. So another fun filled day.
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Stockpiling
Submitted by Little Homestead in the Valley on 05.10.12 at 8:16am.
We are eagerly anticipating the impending birth of our first batch of muscovy ducklings.
While momma #1 spends her days tending her nest, another of the girls is stockpiling eggs. There's 22 in the tire, which is around the same amount that the grey duck is sitting on.
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Foggy wet days and I'm off to the City
Submitted by Here and There blog on 05.10.12 at 7:05am.
Foggy and gray out, not raining at the moment but it's suppose to. The temperature is way up there this morning +13. So today I am off to the City, leaving my loved ones home. Nice to have a little break. I'm attending a conference and AGM, some research at the NS Archives. This evening will be s...
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In Conversation With...Nicole Rushton
Submitted by Field Notes From Cumberland County blog on 05.9.12 at 7:54am.
When I knock on the front door of the neat mini-home tucked away on a back road in Mount Pleasant, the curtains in the front window move and a pair of hands holding yellow rubber gloves appear against the glass but no one calls out, “Mom! Someone’s at the door.” As Nicole Rushton brings me insid...
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Cobwebs and stuff
Submitted by Here and There blog on 05.9.12 at 7:14am.
Had a late night so I've overslept this morning. I need a certain amount of beauty sleep at my age, no more can I burn the candle on both ends and survive on a few hours of sleep. Temperature is way up there at +8.6, cloudy and dismal, with rain on it's way. But we need the rain, just wish it wou...
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shearing skye
Submitted by Nearer Still blog on 05.8.12 at 8:30am.
Phew. One down. We meant to put a tarp down so we wouldn't be picking hay out of her fleece for three years but she was a pain to catch so we just did it as quickly as we could. It wasn't as dirty as I expected.
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Foggy Morning, Creeping Phlox and Wild Cherry Blossoms
Submitted by Here and There blog on 05.8.12 at 7:20am.
Temperature is +2.7 this morning and very foggy. Guess the fog will help the farmers with problems with frost. Today will be a long one, work all day then home for supper and then a meeting in Barrington this evening. Glad tomorrow is my day off, but I have lots to do then too.
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what we did last week
Submitted by Dream Big on 05.7.12 at 8:15am.
We had some visitors last week, and they paid a heavy price for staying here. No, we didn't charge for the rooms, but we did make them work! Our son Cody flew in from Toronto, and son, DIL, and granddaughter from Halifax all helped with fence building. Ever since we lost our dog Cassie, we have b...
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Porcupine Parts
Submitted by Flandrum Hill on 05.7.12 at 8:08am.
We all know about porcupine quills, but what about this creature’s other parts? Like humans, there’s a lot more to porcupines than first meets the eye.
Their lovely coat for example… Due to the odd quill embedded with the fur, bristles and hair, it doesn’t necessarily invite petting, but certa...
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Tree Rings, Rhodora, Flowers and Birds
Submitted by Here and There blog on 05.7.12 at 7:41am.
Back to Monday and the tempertature is +3.2, doesn't really feel like it. Looking like it will be a wet week by the weather forecast. Lots to do this week. Meeting tomorrow night, have agenda, etc to get prepared for that today. I'm off to Halifax on Thursday, so Wednesday will have to make some ...
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may 3
Submitted by Twenty-Two Pleasant on 05.4.12 at 8:42am.
A few pictures from today, another day at home with plenty of germs and unhappy bellies. Ugh.
Thomas snuck out the back door while I was hanging out some laundry (oh, the laundry!). He was so gentle when he touched the tulips and muscari. He's feeling quite a bit better today, sweet kid.
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Quiet Lake, Harbour Sunset and Sailboats
Submitted by Here and There blog on 05.4.12 at 7:29am.
It's Friday - Rah! And the temperature is +3.6 so that's not too shabby at all, hoping it will warm up again today. It's also payday which makes me doubly happy and scallop bacon wrap day at the Bean Dock. Today is my treat day, I leave the brown bag at home! Something to look forward to at the e...
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The Asparagus Patch
Submitted by Little Homestead in the Valley on 05.3.12 at 9:15am.
Our internet is still wonky. The tech never came by to replace the wire. Will call Bell and complain next week. The other day Limey planted 40 asparagus crowns.
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Geese, A Metal Crane and more Flowers
Submitted by Here and There blog on 05.3.12 at 7:53am.
The temperature is +2.5, not bad doesn't feel cool this morning. Back to the office today, hopefully to finish up some odds and ends, then push on to some new things. Have a few researches to do for folks so want to start those this week or early next week.
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Getting back on target
Submitted by My Nova Scotia Home blog on 05.2.12 at 8:15am.
Little bit of a busy time in my household lately. Mostly centered around my oldest, Matthew (17) as he generally tries to chew everything he’s bitten off in life with his sports and his schooling.
He is currently involved in two competitive sports, Target shooting (air pistol) and Archery.
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You Can't Be Gloomy When Daffodils Are Blooming
Submitted by Field Notes From Cumberland County blog on 05.2.12 at 8:18am.
Rick Bass, in his book The Wild Marsh, writes about April: “Consider again, please, the notion of sight, odor, taste, and touch as a kind of music: as all lesser complements to this astounding movement of April. It is like nothing if not a symphony out there...Everywhere you look, in April, you s...
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Flat Stanleys are still in Lunenburg
Submitted by Dream Big on 05.2.12 at 7:46am.
If you remember their last adventure, you will know that Flat Stella, Ms Flat, Flat Chris and Flat Luke were on the truck headed for the Old Lunenburg Jail! But everyone breathed a sigh of relief when they found out that the old jail is now a restaurant. Phew! Everyone is smiling and happy now th...
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Ducks, Partridges and Tulips
Submitted by Here and There blog on 05.2.12 at 7:25am.
So it's warmer this morning, temperature is +4. Hoping it keeps getting warmer as the day goes on. I'm willing to whip around and get some stuff done inside if the sun is going to come out. It's my day off. Rather enjoying having Wednesday off in the middle of the week breaks it up better than Tu...
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The lake and the harbour
Submitted by Here and There on 05.1.12 at 7:34am.
It's not quite as cold as it was, this morning the temperature is -0.3 but appears to be dropping a bit. Tuesday seems to be harder to getting moving then Monday did. I'll shake it off in a minute by the time the first cup of coffee hits home. Another day at the office, another day to get lots of...
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Flat Stanleys visit Lunenburg
Submitted by Dream Big on 04.30.12 at 7:58am.
After their exciting adventure crossing the LaHave River, Flat Chris, Flat Stella, Flat Luke and Ms Flat headed to Lunenburg. In 1995, "Old Town" Lunenburg was added to the UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) World Heritage List. It is the second urban commun...
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Family Visit, Birds and Flowers
Submitted by Here and There blog on 04.30.12 at 7:26am.
Brrr.... it's chilly this morning! The temperature is -1.2 but feels colder. I am sure it will warm up. It was a great weekend and now it's over, back to Monday. Oh well, can't do anything about weather or the week days, so we will be glad to have jobs and weekends.
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Lost Beards of the Forest
Submitted by Flandrum Hill on 04.27.12 at 7:56am.
Light grayish green lichens known as Old Man’s Beard hang from the trees in the forests. Sometimes blown onto the ground on windy days, to the touch, these lichens are usually soft but sometimes stiff in dry weather. A few are streaked with brown.
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Wind, Rain and Redcoats
Submitted by Here and There on 04.27.12 at 7:36am.
I'm tired this morning, was late getting to bed (late for me) so am dragging my backside this morning. The temperature is +10.5 and I can hear the wind and rain battling out side even if I can't see it yet. Hopefully today will be as good as the rest of the week at work. Am finally getting back i...
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(more) news from the flock
Submitted by Ironwood Farm blog on 04.26.12 at 9:11am.
This little romney girl (photographed here at just 2 days old) is now more than 2 weeks old. She happily runs around with her 17 playmates, while we wait (not so patiently) for the rest to arrive. Only 4 more ewes to go…and with a lambing pecentage of 200%, we’re all feeling a little overwhelmed…
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april 25
Submitted by Twenty-Two Pleasant on 04.26.12 at 9:06am.
April 25: looking down. I was standing on the step, looking down to take a picture of some tulips, when I turned around to see this sweet little guy looking down, himself.
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Strange Skies and Pink Flowers
Submitted by Here and There blog on 04.26.12 at 7:56am.
It's Thursday morning and the temperature is +3.5. Daylight is coming and it's suppose to be a fine day. Off to work today, my brain didn't quite want to wake up. Funny how when you don't need to get up early it's not problem. Am hoping to get a few more days at the office before people really re...
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In Conversation With...Louise Haycocks and Kirsteen Thomson
Submitted by Field Notes From Cumberland County blog on 04.25.12 at 8:21am.
“Um, why does this cow have Christmas lights strung around its head?” I ask.
Louise Haycocks strides to the other side of the pine tree where I’m standing next to the cow shed.
“What? Oh!” she exclaims. “He’s out of the pen. Sir Loin!”
Five minutes later, with the help of two dwarf goats, on...
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Lovin' NS Weather - From Rain to Sun
Submitted by Here and There blog on 04.25.12 at 7:30am.
At 4:45 am the day is already a bummer. It's mild again +4.9, more rain forecast for today. Woke up at 4, thanks to #1 dog child, who is sleeping away on the living room floor now, not sure what was her problem. It's my day off, and I have plans to get lots done.
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april 23
Submitted by Twenty-Two Pleasant on 04.24.12 at 9:14am.
My picture for the day didn't turn out very well (that's what happens when I wait until after dark), so I just posted it over on flickr. This one, though, I like. I might take it again without that twig when it finally stops raining.
Can anyone tell me the name of this adorable weed?
How do you...
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Where to Walk and Why
Submitted by Blogger on 04.24.12 at 8:37am.
Recently the Diary took up walking. Not on the indoor track with the brightly lighted surgically white scenery at QPEC but out in the wild byways of Queens where the scenery is gorgeous, the air bracing and one gets occasional views of the ocean that CFA’s pay so much to smell and see. Those of y...
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Adventures in Beer & Laundry
Submitted by My Nova Scotia Home blog on 04.24.12 at 8:30am.
Well, another weekend has come and gone at Casa Laprade and once again I feel like I got Didly Squat accomplished.
Saturday we were woken up by the sounds of the neighbour taking his ride on lawn mower for a joy ride. Seriously. The guy started it up and then proceeded to spend the next hour...
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Rain and Wind
Submitted by Here and There blog on 04.24.12 at 7:48am.
I can still hear the wind roaring and assume it's raining too, but it's dark so will have to wait on that one. At least it's mild, more like down right warm +15.5. With this kind of weather I will get use to being back in the office again, no longingly looks out the window wishing I could be in t...
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pink and green
Submitted by Twenty-Two Pleasant on 04.23.12 at 9:28am.
One of my favourite colour combinations.
One of the things that I've grown to love about taking and sharing my pictures is that it has made me take notice of the light and other details that I might not otherwise notice. Those are rhubarb leaves in the second picture - I had no idea that they ha...
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Weekend Update
The pastures are starting to green up with a few added surprise guests popping up.
Sheep are due for shearing and to have their feet trimmed.
The lambs are growing....Berlin is stunning!
A week ago I decided to sell my flock of sheep....the decision was made with a very heavy heart...In three...
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Rain, Rain, Come Our Way
Submitted by Field Notes From Cumberland County blog on 04.23.12 at 8:34am.
Here that gasping, those gulping sounds?
That's the sound of our dry Earth soaking up the rain.
We are precipitation-challenged this year. In March, we received half of our normal amount of precipitation, and April is on track for the same kind of numbers. The tulips planted in the large boxes...
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Dear Earth: You Had Me at Hello
Submitted by Flandrum Hill on 04.23.12 at 7:43am.
The Earth doesn’t care about age or wrinkles. What’s a decade or two when you’re a billion years old and a few cracks when you’re scarred regularly by earthquakes?
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Helping out fellow farmers
Submitted by Hidden Meadow Farm blog on 04.20.12 at 8:41am.
Back in 2007 my husband and I met a man named Chris Silver.
We were attending a Organic livestock farming course together.
During lunch we talked about our dreams of owning Highland cattle as he told us about his experience raising them.
Eventually Chris switched from Highlands to Cashmere goa...
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Sunrises and the Lake
Submitted by Here and There blog on 04.20.12 at 7:23am.
Temperatures are still pretty good this morning at +4.2. I certainly got my quiet time as I woke up at 4am. It's been a while since I've done that so I can live with it every now and then. Again we have made it to Friday. Where does the week go? Suppose to be another fine day then we will be plag...
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How do you get an 80-foot mast under a 65-foot bridge?
Submitted by Contrarian on 04.20.12 at 6:51am.
The video was taken somewhere on the InterCoastal Waterway around 2007. See a longer version here, and another vantage point here.
The original poster explains that the balls, each containing a tonne of water, are swung out with an initial turn of the boat to port or starboard.
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How to jump from high places
Submitted by Life In Chebucto West blog on 04.19.12 at 8:02am.
Over the last year I've been doing some indoor rock-climbing with my friends. You feel great when you reach the top after a difficult climb. Then you relax, lean back, and your belayer (the person holding your rope on the ground) lowers you slowly to the ground.
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Flat Stanleys visit a wharf
Submitted by Dream Big on 04.19.12 at 7:33am.
Today's adventure with our flat visitors took us to Bush Cove, where we learned a little bit about lobster fishing. Our first photograph was taken next to the lobster traps. You must have a license to fish for lobsters, and you must use a trap.On the South Shore of Nova Scotia, lobster season is ...
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Nobody Here But Us Chickens
Submitted by Field Notes From Cumberland County blog on 04.18.12 at 8:30am.
During a recent conversation, I mentioned my chickens and the woman I was talking to exclaimed, “You have chickens?!” the same way I would say, “You won a million dollars?!” Yet I understand her excitement because for some of us, chickens represent a certain kind of achievement.
Back in the sum...
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Flat Stanleys Visit Fort Point
Submitted by Dream Big on 04.18.12 at 7:43am.
Flat Stella, Flat Chris, Flat Luke, and Ms Flat made a visit to Fort Point. They all tried to imagine that it was 1604, and they looked out to the ocean to see Samuel de Champlain standing on a ship waving to them. He made lots of maps and he helped the people who lived in Europe understand more ...
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Bobcat Tale
Submitted by Flandrum Hill on 04.18.12 at 7:41am.
At first glance, this tawny feline looks like just another neighborhood pussycat visiting the yard.
Posing among the spring flowers it almost seems to smile for the camera. But there’s something a little wilder than usual in its expression and the size of its cheek ruffs and paws.
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Time
Submitted by Hidden Meadow Farm blog on 04.17.12 at 9:17am.
I have decided to devote one hour a week to myself.
This is a very hard thing to do guilt free.
My baby is my number one and to leave her for a hour is hard.
I decided it was a good thing even if it is hard,it gives me time to enjoy a passion of mine and her daddy gets to enjoy time with his b...
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Spring Inventory
Submitted by Flandrum Hill on 04.17.12 at 8:14am.
Canadian maple buds. Check.
Coltsfoot. Check.
Mating-crazed junco obsessed with its reflection in my car’s mirror. Check.
Chickadee and mourning dove calling from the treetops. Check. Check.
Creepy crawlies under the garden stones: Millipede, earthworm, beetle, salamander. Check. Che...
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KIDDING AROUND
Submitted by Keeping It Real blog on 04.17.12 at 7:59am.
So fun to wake up this morning, look out Faegan's bedroom window into the backyard and see Scott still home and striding across the lawn. Hooray! he was so happy to announce that our sweet goat Cassie had given birth to two kids.
What an exciting moment for our family, this being the first b...
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Day 108 - 17th April 2012 - Blooms, Blooms and More Blooms
Submitted by Here and There blog on 04.17.12 at 6:51am.
Can't believe the temperature this morning it's +10.1, now that's warm at 5:30am. Today is an adjustment day, I no longer have my quiet time in the morning since Larry is back to work and everyone is up so I'm a bit out of whack to say the least.
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Mayflowers
Submitted by My Nova Scotia Home blog on 04.17.12 at 6:49am.
I've been looking around for other Nova Scotia blogs to read and stumbled, quite by accident, upon a blog written by a lady named Kim, who lives a few kilometers up the road from where I grew up. Funny story, although not so funny at the time... Hubby-to-be and I flew home to NS from Vancouver...
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Osprey in Lunenburg
Submitted by Dream Big on 04.16.12 at 8:18am.
Our visiting flat people were ready to revolt yesterday...they are very good natured flat kids, but after a couple of weeks of doing NOTHING they were ready to get out and about. We spent yesterday travelling around the LaHave River with 4 flat people and we caused quite a stir in a couple of pla...
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Arthritis
Submitted by Hidden Meadow Farm blog on 04.13.12 at 8:22am.
I have been working with my mare for the past week.
As I'm lounging her and riding her we leave Hound Dog our gelding, in the pasture next to the ring.
He has been very good and not caused any trouble but he does get jealous he's not being used.
Last night he played hard and is very sore today.
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Growing Up Outdoors: A Love Story
Submitted by Flandrum Hill on 04.13.12 at 7:41am.
Giving your child immunity against loneliness may be as simple as fostering within them a kinship with the natural world. A love of nature begun in childhood can last a lifetime.
It is astonishing how little one feels alone when one loves.
-John Bulwer
Playing with doll furniture and worms o...
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Treadmill Trouble
Submitted by Rainy Saturday on 04.12.12 at 7:27am.
I've always assumed that running on the treadmill is easier than running outside. It makes sense: no outdoor elements, such as wind, to contend with. No hills. No potholes, dogs, and kids on bicycles to dodge. You're running indoors, in a controlled environment, on a flat surface, with a belt hel...
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In Conversation With..Christina Martin
Submitted by Field Notes From Cumberland County blog on 04.11.12 at 7:46am.
The screen door of the green farmhouse on Carrington Road in Port Howe is open, letting bright March sunshine splash onto the floor inside. As I raise my hand to knock, I don’t hear the sound of drums or a guitar; I hear unmelodious clattering.
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Coat color
Submitted by Hidden Meadow Farm blog on 04.10.12 at 9:10am.
I thought a few post on Highland coat color would be interesting for you to read about.
There are many colors and variations on these.
I will start with calf color.
There are some very interesting coat color changes that occur in Highland calves.
With a new crop of babies with some new intere...
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In This Week's Issue
Submitted by Field Notes From Cumberland County blog on 04.10.12 at 8:35am.
My conversation this week is with a couple who run a small-scale farm -- four horses, two cows, two goats, a flock of hens, one peacock, two dogs, several cats...and one pig.
One very lovely, very large, very motherly pig.
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A Canadian Werewolf
Submitted by Flandrum Hill on 04.5.12 at 7:44am.
Although wolves were made extinct in much of Eastern Canada in the 1800s, there may still be wolf-like creatures prowling our woods at night, especially under the light of a full moon. When I was a child, my French-Canadian grandmother would warn me about the dangers of staying outside after dar...
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Strong as an Ox
Submitted by Hidden Meadow Farm blog on 04.4.12 at 8:55am.
A long time ago when we first started farming with Highland cattle we really wanted our very own team of oxen.
We waited every year for the perfect pair of matching bull calves that we could team.
Every year we had no boys that matched until this year!
Last Wednesday Lysa gave us a black bull ...
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A Morning Walk
Submitted by Little Homestead in the Valley on 04.3.12 at 9:08am.
It was warm this morning so we took a little nature walk around the property. I took a few photos along the way.
Found some duck eggs.
Of course Tootsie had to come with us.
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Ticked Off
Submitted by Field Notes From Cumberland County blog on 04.3.12 at 8:43am.
My friend Jane says she found a tick on her ten-month-old dog, Sam, over the weekend. It was under his collar, a good place to hide.
Jane and Sam, along with me and my two dogs, went for a long walk into our back woods last week. Watching 9-year-old Stella doing her usual ignoring-my-owner-doing...
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Playing
Submitted by Hidden Meadow Farm blog on 04.2.12 at 8:46am.
For the first time in nearly a year I got to take my mare out and play in my ring.
Hubby harrowed the ring,made it all fluffy and it was such fun.
Baby girl had her first tractor ride with daddy!
I'm hoping the nice weather keeps up so I can keep working with her.
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the bunny dragon
Submitted by Days Go By on 04.2.12 at 7:43am.
Most of the time we call Bear's bus 'Dragon'. (Well, what would you call it? And it has an odd shaped vent on the side hood like a snarling mouth.) But for this week? It's name is Bunny.
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eyes of a hawk
Submitted by Dream Big on 03.30.12 at 7:58am.
On Wednesday I was puttering in the backyard, looking at the hopeful signs of spring in the garden. I heard a strange bird sound that I had never heard before. I looked towards the sound, which was coming from our "rock island" (a huge pile of rocks in the centre of the field, picked by hand and ...
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I Still Have My Hopes
Submitted by Flandrum Hill on 03.30.12 at 7:57am.
These times make it all too easy to want to give up and give in to despair. The world is a mess. We care too much for personal comfort and inanimate things that are all important one minute and discarded the next. We care too little for life in its many forms, the soil, water and one another. ...
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dozens of finches
Submitted by Dream Big on 03.29.12 at 7:58am.
Our birds are back a little earlier this year. Or maybe we're just seeing more earlier because we loaded up the feeders earlier than usual. We have dozens of finches...just a small sample shown here. The purple finches have arrived too, but I haven't caught one yet.
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Take It Outside
Submitted by Flandrum Hill on 03.29.12 at 7:55am.
Are kids testing the limits of your patience? Perhaps you’re feeling cooped up with a baby who won’t settle down for a nap, a whining toddler or older children who are arguing incessantly. If so, maybe it’s time to take it outside.
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Oh deer, foxy lady
Submitted by Dream Big on 03.28.12 at 7:49am.
I have the best husband in the world. For two days last week, we fought about whether I should buy a new lens for my camera or not. He was insisting that we buy the lens, I was thinking it wasn't the right time (visions of dollar signs dancing in my head). He won the battle, and we headed into Ha...
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Flat Stanely Project - On The Farm
Submitted by Dream Big on 03.27.12 at 7:57am.
We spent our first day with Ms. Flat, Flat Stella, Flat Luke and Flat Chris at home on the farm. First, we introduced them to our dog Riley and our kitten Myrtle. Myrtle loves Riley and they play and sleep together. Our other dog Mulligan was busy sleeping.
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March Waters
Submitted by Flandrum Hill on 03.26.12 at 8:03am.
Spring sometimes takes one step forward and two steps backwards…
But this spring’s steps forward and backwards seem more extreme than in the past. How can I be finding refreshment in the waters of the Atlantic one hot day, and soon afterwards be wondering if I should thaw the water in the bird...
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Travel Treasures
Submitted by Patchmaker blog on 03.23.12 at 8:03am.
Dawn over Annapolis Royal . . .
An old friend I found along the way . . .
Another old friend - I actually had one of these - oops, am I dating myself???
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The Heat is On
Submitted by Flandrum Hill on 03.22.12 at 7:34am.
This morning it looked like a hot summer sun was rising on the horizon. The 25.7 degrees Celsius high yesterday in Halifax broke the previous record by 15 degrees! (That’s a 59 degree Fahrenheit DIFFERENCE). In 1979, temperatures here on March 21st reached 10 degrees Celsius.
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Spring Fling
Submitted by Get Out In Guysborough County on 03.22.12 at 7:14am.
My first day of spring was great. I managed to spend a good chunk of it outdoors. I went for a ride on the motorcycle, walked and later in the evening went cycling.
When I left home I intended to go for a short ride to Guysborough for milk and gas but on the way home I decided to keep going on R...
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on the first day of spring
Submitted by Twenty-Two Pleasant on 03.21.12 at 8:52am.
For some reason, I'm awake at 3:30am, with a tickle in my throat and a headache that just won't let me get back to sleep. I've posted in this sleepless condition before. Rather than trying to share anything profound tonight, here's what's been in my head for the past few days:
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an afternoon walk
Submitted by Dream Big on 03.21.12 at 7:50am.
When we need to recharge....get ourselves centred...re-focus on what's important...we head to the shore.Yesterday we headed to Rissers Beach, and I took along the little pocket point and shoot. Come take a walk....
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The Dawn of a New Season of Climate Change
Submitted by Flandrum Hill on 03.21.12 at 7:49am.
It’s getting warmer. And despite Canadians’ delight at enjoying higher temperatures than normal this week, some of us can’t help but wonder about the dark cloud that’s presently revealing this silver lining.
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Spring has sprung
Wow we are having a doozy of a couple of days. Today the temps are supposed to reach summer levels! 25C/78F I will enjoy it but it does kind of freak me out. Temps back to near freezing on the weekend. The orchard growers are nervous because the trees might start blooming with all this mild and w...
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