Comments for Moon over Martinborough http://moonovermartinborough.com Two American expat city boys on 20 acres with an olive grove in New Zealand Thu, 17 May 2012 02:47:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Jack the baby lamb by Maria http://moonovermartinborough.com/2011/11/12/jack-the-baby-lamb/#comment-7047 Thu, 17 May 2012 02:47:42 +0000 http://moonovermartinborough.com/?p=3936#comment-7047 Yes we should start a club! Tell Rick I’m sorry his baby lamb doesn’t come to say hi anymore. I’ll be hoping to hear about Jack’s fate. Thanks so much for your stories. We recently lost our very first hen, Betty, to a hawk, and our home has been sad lately. Your stories have brought much needed laughter and smiles to us! Our only other hen of laying age isn’t laying, and now just seems to mope about. The younger ones are too young to put in the run with her, and so poor Mystery (named so by a 7 year old) is quite the lonely hen these days. So hearing about poor Francois, Old Man Henry, and even Jack the ram lamb have really helped us laugh again. Thanks so much. :)

]]> Comment on Jack the baby lamb by Moon Over Martinborough http://moonovermartinborough.com/2011/11/12/jack-the-baby-lamb/#comment-7046 Wed, 16 May 2012 18:17:53 +0000 http://moonovermartinborough.com/?p=3936#comment-7046 We should start a club for Vegetarian Sympathizers! Jack has so far avoided the butcher — but he’s still over at John and Aussie Bronwyn’s, and he’s lined up to go soon. Jack has become a bit feral and, while he doesn’t run from people the way the other sheep there do, he doesn’t come up to say hi anymore.

]]> Comment on Jack the baby lamb by Maria http://moonovermartinborough.com/2011/11/12/jack-the-baby-lamb/#comment-7043 Tue, 15 May 2012 17:30:19 +0000 http://moonovermartinborough.com/?p=3936#comment-7043 I too, sympathize with the Vegetarians! I can’t look at an animal and think about dinner. My beef comes in foam trays wrapped in plastic. My chicken does too (and I NEVER talk about fried chicken in front of our hens…wouldn’t want to scare them). Sometimes I wonder how I would have made it back in the pioneer days when if you wanted meat you had to kill it yourself! I’m not sure I’d have been able to do it! Well, what’s the verdict on Jack?

]]> Comment on The duck who came to dinner by Aunt Charlie http://moonovermartinborough.com/2012/05/06/the-duck-who-came-to-dinner/#comment-7038 Tue, 08 May 2012 13:50:09 +0000 http://moonovermartinborough.com/?p=4214#comment-7038 You see, those of us who have been taken in and lovingly cared for by you, send out these vibes, rather like marking a big red X on your deck saying “stop here, good stuff”. When we leave, our goal is always to return. Be patient, he (Aussie Bronwyn knows all) will return. Me too! Bap-bap!

]]> Comment on Silver monster in the chicken run by Becky http://moonovermartinborough.com/2011/02/19/training-chickens-to-eat/#comment-7036 Mon, 07 May 2012 14:48:40 +0000 http://moonovermartinborough.com/?p=3523#comment-7036 We got some new chicks who think the feeder is great! I’m glad we gave it another try. It’s a wonderful chicken feeder! No more starlings! I enjoy the sound of the “clunk” when the chickens use it.

]]> Comment on The duck who came to dinner by casalba http://moonovermartinborough.com/2012/05/06/the-duck-who-came-to-dinner/#comment-7034 Sun, 06 May 2012 12:40:16 +0000 http://moonovermartinborough.com/?p=4214#comment-7034 With due respect to Aussie Bronwyn (who, I already know is an expert in all sorts of country matters), from your photos, Little One is definitely Daphne and not Donald. The male has unmistakable emerald green plumage down to the collar. Unless s/he is too young to “sport” them yet.

That aside, I couldn’t help notice that “geriatric roosters” and “aged sows” got their own links, but “stray humans” did not! Your heart is very much in the right place as far as I’m concerned. We’ll make a country boy of you yet!

]]> Comment on The duck who came to dinner by bigcurvygirls http://moonovermartinborough.com/2012/05/06/the-duck-who-came-to-dinner/#comment-7033 Sun, 06 May 2012 08:07:27 +0000 http://moonovermartinborough.com/?p=4214#comment-7033 Try NOT to feel bad…when you remember that the last words you EVER said to him (just before duck-shooting season) were cynical, cold and aloof! He may well have flown to his very death with your rejection rattling around inside his feathered head.
But hey, not trying to make you at ALL guilty…no, no, no! LOL

]]> Comment on Gallery by Alecia Jones http://moonovermartinborough.com/gallery/#comment-7032 Sun, 06 May 2012 04:16:18 +0000 http://moonovermartinborough.com/?page_id=4159#comment-7032 So peaceful, so simple, so mindful.

]]> Comment on The duck who came to dinner by Alecia jones http://moonovermartinborough.com/2012/05/06/the-duck-who-came-to-dinner/#comment-7031 Sun, 06 May 2012 04:06:55 +0000 http://moonovermartinborough.com/?p=4214#comment-7031 I love the pic of Little One coming in to your home. So sweet and I wouldn’t have done anything any differently.

]]> Comment on The duck who came to dinner by lyn http://moonovermartinborough.com/2012/05/06/the-duck-who-came-to-dinner/#comment-7030 Sun, 06 May 2012 00:30:56 +0000 http://moonovermartinborough.com/?p=4214#comment-7030 we raised a duckling rescued from the stream at the bottom f our garden, she stayed for a year and went off with the other ducks, next year she came back with all of her ducklings and she did this for two years and then stopped, Im sure she told all the other ducks as at one point we were feeding 22ducks! my husband purchased barrels of breadcrumbs from breadcraft to feed them, Our pet duck was an absolute joy and she used to sleep in the cat basket. Lovely memories, I bet Littleone returns . .

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