tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-41799163048758107962024-03-13T10:57:30.849-07:00 wee breeze farmSharonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16705100417229067023noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4179916304875810796.post-27526480165418986402014-04-05T15:47:00.000-07:002018-04-28T15:59:59.380-07:00<h3 align="center">
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...with tea in hand it didn't take long before I had enough room to actually sit down and start the seed trays. . By the time I was almost finished it was late enough in the day to actually take a glass of wine in with me. Something quite relaxing and comforting about sitting in a warm green house with a glass of wine. I think perhaps I'd like to start a wine pairing list, not with food but with activities. For instance, a winter night in front of the fireplace could be pared with a glass of red chateau neuf. A glass of chilled rose for green house chores. Cold chardonnay for reading outside on a warm spring evening....<br />
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When I was a teen in the 70's I discovered a series of books by Lillian Beckwith. My teen mind fantasised about living on a croft in the highlands of Scotland just like her, and I just love all of Beckwith's books. </div>
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Today I discovered I have actually become Lillian.</div>
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Well I live in Canada, not Scotland. I have a hobby farm not a croft. But as I went out to the horses today with a rope tied around my waist just in case I needed to lead one of them back into the paddocks I stopped in my tracks. I have become Lillian Beckwith. Then I looked down...</div>
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Wellies. I have become Lillian.</div>
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(Lillian Beckwith was born in England and moved to an island off Skye. Her books are charming, funny, and an easy read of simpler times.)</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> It snowed for two days solid (the only real snow we've had this winter)...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...then today we woke up to clear skies and it was t-shirt weather....</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...as pretty as it is, snow this time the year is just a pain in the %#*...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">... just as well, that'll give me enough time to repair the poly tunnel green house that was damaged...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"> I was planning to experiment in the veggie plot; I read this article about burying household compost this month and then planting peas on top.. The theory is that the decomposing compost will heat the soil and give you a head start on early spring crops. </span></div>
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At the end of the summer our loafing hay shed became over run with rats. Normally I don't get overly concerned with rodents on a farm. They eat the grain and hay dropped by the horses and unlike city rats our rats are well fed, don't live in the sewers and have a healthy country lifestyle. But this summer their numbers exploded and they were becoming quite destructive. I set down traps and caught one or two but then they left the traps alone; I hate to use poison but I broke down and lay out poison and got their numbers under control. But then Titus came into the house one day with a dead rat - poisoned I m sure....</div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: "trebuchet ms" , sans-serif;">...sometimes the most unplanned days can turn out to be perfect. Today was one of them. We woke early to a warm, sunny day and took our horses to the park for a ride before it got too hot.</span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">...today for the first time in weeks, the sun came out...</span></strong><br />
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">...so my sister and I went on a spring mini-break to her husband's family cabin on an island they own off the coast of West Vancouver...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">...100 years of history. All these signs, afixed to the woodshed, washed up on the shore on the island...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">In early September we lost our 7 year old boy, Tiberius, to cancer. During his illness I started to research dog diets and food and I was perturbed to learn in Canada there are no governmental regulations pertaining to dog food manufacturing. The manufacturers do not have to list ingredients on their products. <span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><a href="http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/consumers/pet-food-law.html">http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/consumers/pet-food-law.html</a>.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Trebuchet MS;">So I decided to make my own doggie treats. I've experimented with lots of ingredients and found the one that has the best texture and stores well is liver.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">My husband found these amazing 19th century shipping cart wheels. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">They were reclaimed from a building that was being demolished in the historic Gastown site of Vancouver. They were in a cellar that was thought to have collapsed in the 1886 Gastown fire.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">...but they came out looking amazing.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Trebuchet MS", sans-serif;">These boards, that still have old forged square nails attached, were reclaimed from an old barn in Alberta and will be used to make a cart coffee table. I can't wait until hubby finished this project.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...the leggy leeks. I've always sown my leeks directly in the ground and the results have not been consistant; last year we had a cold wet spring and my leeks didn t amount to much. I inherited my love of gardening from my grandfather and I remembered he started his leeks indoors (much to to the protests of my grandmother) then transplanted them out. I was quite young when we left Scotland so my memory of his gardening tips are somewhat faded. I do believe he dipped the seedlings in water before transplanting...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> ...the theory is this minimizes the soil that gets trapped inside the leeks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">...then poured water in the hole instead of pushing the dirt into the leek. We'll see if this method makes a difference (to be honest, after a while I became cold and bored so only half my leeks were transplanted like this). The seedlings are now in the polytunnel under some growing fabric waiting for spring.</span></div>
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Today was an unexpectantly warm day and as I wandered around the garden I found the first signs that spring is just around the corner.</div>
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A couple of weeks ago I started some seeds indoors. I planted artichokes, leeks, and a couple of different onions. I have never started onions from seed but I'm hopeful it will all work out; to be honest I have never really had great luck with my onion crops. If the weather remains mild I might soon be able to put them seedlings in the greenhouse.</div>
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And ofcourse Nellie (Nervous Nellie is our rescue dog) had to get right into the action.</div>
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This is the first time I've ventured into the polly tunnel since I dumped some gardening stuff in it last fall. Time to tidy it up for spring.</div>
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Back in the polly tunnel...I added some organic composted manure, curtesy of our three horses, and sewed some raddishes, spinaches, arrugula and lettuce. Fingers crossed we will be eating our veg in early spring. And after a hard days work in the garden, what is better that a few minutes sitting in the rare sunshine...</div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">I know it's a little late to talk about canning, but as I plan my garden for spring, I also plan how I'm going to preserve all my fruits and veg, that is if my garden florishes, which is not always the case.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Last spring was cold and not a great year for my garden, but I did get a bumper crop of apples, although they were a little smaller than normal...</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">...so I did. The amazing thing was that the skins were trapped in the masher thing and the skins gave the cooked apples a pink tinge...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">While I had all my canning equipment out I pitted and canned cherries I got from our friends in the Okanagan. I added a little brandy to each jar and they are fantastic over ice cream.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The jars on the right are apricot jam I made from apricots we got from the same friends.</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">Today was one of those amazing rare clear crisp winter days. We spent most of it outside..</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">...even the old girl, Penny who is 15, joined us (a rare occasion). I wandered around the property planning next year's garden,</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">...even the faded garden gnome seemed to be waiting for spring. I found the hardy garlic plants poking through the frozen ground...</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I love the anticipation of spring - am I the only one pouring over seed catalogues this time of year?</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">With the beginning of a New Year I am determined to stop planning and thinking and take the advice of Donna at <a href="http://www.funkyjunkinteriors.net/">http://www.funkyjunkinteriors.net/</a> and just do. I have actually quoted this a few times but sometimes the simplist advice is the best. I'd like mention Diana from <a href="http://ourvintagehomelove.blogspot.ca/">http://ourvintagehomelove.blogspot.ca/</a> as being one of the first blogs I read for inspiration and thank you Diana for being my first visitor. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have wanted to recycle, reuse, and renew furnisher for a long while and now I have the time to indulge myself. I found this table/desk at a local thrift store. It was in pretty bad shape, with deep scratches and lots of kids glue and stickers attached. The glue came off with a little elbow grease and baking soda and I filled the scratches. </span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">I have also been wanting to try painting a union jack. I somehow lost the pictures of the process. I primed first and then did an undercoat with ASCP antique white. After much trial and error I taped out the union jack (I used frog painting tape because it is not supposed to bleed etc. It bled just like the inexpensive masking tape and also when I peeled it off, it also peeled off a lot of paint fyi).</span><br />
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<span style="color: red;">...heights make me a wee bit uncomfortable so I went to the barn and got my riding helmet and jumping vest...I finished the job; I hope the neighbours weren't watching...</span><br />
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<span style="color: #cc0000;">Putting summer to bed....</span></h2>
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I have been so busy lately that my garden has become neglected. The last of the harvest bravely clinging to dying plants...<br />
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