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Dorothee getting fresh spelt bread from the wood fired oven.
Early January 2021
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Dorothee taking Duke for a walk in the woods. Early January
2021
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Mat riding Chief with our new to us saddle from Almut. Jan 29
2021
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Dorothee walking Ginger in our woods. Mat took the photo while
riding Chief.
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Feb 3 2021. Mat with Ginger and chief getting a load of
firewood from the woods.
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Jan 23 2021
Dorothee just getting our delicious spelt bread from the wood
stove
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Dorothee pulling logs with Chief and Duke Feb 2021
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Fantastic food from Dorothee. The cheese she makes is
incredible.
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Mealtime for the horses Feb 2021
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Mat Bringing in the horses to the south pasture Feb 21 2021
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Ginger taking it easy while eating!
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Duke waiting for mat to finish cutting the logs.
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Dorothee pulling logs in our woods
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Bringing in a load of firewood
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Bringing in more firewood
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Fresh baked scones and hot soup for lunch.
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Mat Cross country skiing.
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Dorothee loves her cross country skiing
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Lunch for the horses
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The solar powered golf cart! Just incredible.. never needs
charging from the grid as the sun keeps it going and when it is
raining we just do not use it.
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And yes we produce veggie oils in our press room.
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Horse back riding at the farm.
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Dorothee and our new cat
smokie. Smokie arrived one day very pregnant and very hungry. She
immediately took to Dorothee and with lots of fresh milk and cat
food she has done well with Dorothees care.
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Patches, Gandolf and Tiger
oct 25 2021
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Oct 25 2021. These are
citrons as sued on farms long ago. They keep for extended periods
of time and make wonderful preserves. This was a delicacy my
mother prepared for us and now Dorothee has take up the challenge.
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Nov 11 2021. This is a
photo of one eyed Gandolf. He developed a very serious infection
in one eye. We had got on the infection right away but it
persisted and had to have the eye removed. He certainly does not
seem to be bothered that he has just one eye and is a happy
playful cat. In the backgound are Tiger and Patches.
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After a hard day working
the horses Dorothee usually helps me take the harnesses off. They
are actually quite heavy and I really appreciate someone helping.
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Nov 11 2021. I decided to
try my hand at growing camelina but ti does present problems. If I
wait for warmer weather in the spring the camelina does not
complete well with the weeds so I want to frost seed the camelina
in the snow and hopefully it will grow before the weeds get going.
So we first plowed the ground and here I am smoothing it out with
the disc and a rolling basket. One of my ideas is to get the
camelina started in the snow as it will germinate a close to
freezing whereas the weeds tend to like a warmer tempereature.
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Cleaning the sunflower seeds Dec 1 2021. I was very late in
combi9ning the sunflowers this year, just too much rain and now
snow. This is my small cleaner but I do have the large clipper
which I am working on getting ready to clean the rest of the
sunflower seeds.
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Kittens in the cart basket! They have certainly given us a lot
of fun. They wake Dorothee up in morning by licking her face then
scamper all around the bed until she gets up.
Dec 24 2021
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We are still picking kale for our salads on Dec 29 2021
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Dec 29 2021 .Mat and the rebuilt bob sled. A wonderful
experience and just in time for the snow.
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