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Animal husbandry

October 26, 2009 · 1 comment

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Technically speaking, I practice only half of animal husbandry. I do not raise animals from birth; my hens aren’t broody and even if they were, we eat their eggs; we’re not breeding horses or cats or dogs (though we do have a lovely yearling warmblood, Hal, living here now, thanks to our friend Katherine, who’s [...]

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I wrote this post back in May, after I returned from my 25th high school reunion. It’s a detailed recap of the weekend’s events, and maybe not so much of interest to anyone who wasn’t there, and I never really finished it (perhaps it was too raw, at the time, to write about my drive [...]

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Like, say, knitting? I’m back, but I make no promises about frequency or duration. However, I do have some important points to share with all of you. Whoever you are, after my six months of absence.
1. It’s cold. Again. (Actually, as the H pointed out this morning, what we’re experiencing today, i.e., high near 40, [...]

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No, that’s not a typo. A la Groundhog Day, it’s Day 8, again. Of course–Day 8, a month later.
I could make all kinds of excuses about how I muck stalls and exercise horses nearly every day (true); or about how my mother moved in with me three weeks ago (also true); or about how one [...]

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