Every year, I get multiple requests from families with kids to come visit the farm during lambing season. I say yes to nearly all of them, it’s fun to share the fun. I’m on vacation during that time, so it’s not difficult to accommodate visitors.

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Aussie Long coatThe first week of the year, my Seattle job finally moved to Bothell. Only a year and a half late. But this has meant I’m starting to feel the difference in the amount of free time I have, from not making that 1.5+ hour trek to the urban netherworld every day. It’s small, but significant. I’m starting to feel caught up. And like maybe I have some spare time, which I don’t think I’ve felt for a very long time. And this means I get to spend time doing some unnecessary things,  thinks I just feel like doing. And this leads to the text of the Tobacco Incident.

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