Animals
- On Dressing Dogs
With Winter's early arrival,I have had to start putting dog coats on the dogs in the morning for chore time. Oakley and Sam are used to this routine. Oakley was oblivious... Sam, mildly annoyed... Annie, spastic (at first)... It took a half hour...
- Reform School For Annie
Our Annie has left the puppy stageand made the transition to adolescence. And (if you have had dogs then you know this all too well) with adolescencecomes a whole new set of "problems". Our Annie has been causing a few problems around the neighborhood,as...
- Dills, Swills, Quills, Pills, Chills, And Frills
How about I take you on a little chronological trip through our weekend.... Friday afternoon: dills. I turned the last of our cucumbers and a few from our neighbor into these yummy dill pickles. Friday evening: swills. We had a lovely evening...
- I Wish I Had A Dollar For Every Time I Posted This Story....
You may remember me telling you last week that Annie-Oakley got skunked.Well, one week later it has happened again...only, this time it was only Oakley. For some reason, yesterday morning Oakley left Annie at home and went on a mission.I think he decided...
- A Tender Story
This is a little tale about Annie Oakley... Every morning, the dogs and I go out "to work." Just announcing that it's time for work puts everyone into a tailspin of excitement.Oh, how they love to run! I head to the barn and the dogs run ahead of...
Animals
Even Turkeys Recognize True Beauty
Yesterday morning I found the turkeys outside their house
at the far end of their yard...
staring at the horizon.
Literally...staring!
I turned and faced the horizon myself...
"Well, no wonder, Tom and Chuck...
that is one magnificent sunrise!"
Sadly, it was short-lived and replaced by rain showers.
I continued on with morning chores, 3 dogs by my side...
feeding all of the animals, scooping manure, cleaning and re-filling water buckets.
As I was finishing up, I happened to notice that there were no longer any dogs with me.
"Annie, Oakley, Sam!" I hollered (and believe it or not, I have the loudest human "holler"
that I have ever witnessed!)
Seriously....call me Megaphone Woman...it's my super power!
For all of the hollering and yodeling I did, though, no dogs appeared.
"Rats!"... it looked as though they took off on an adventure...
the call of the outdoors!
The long and short of it is...
Oakley came home mid-morning...
without his brother and sister.
After hours of worry, Bad Sam and Bad Annie arrived home...
Lord knows where they were or what they were up to,
but by the looks on their faces....
I assume they were up to no good!
Needless to say, the "good-girl" collar is back on Annie.
She apparently needs a refresher course on boundaries.
It's soon hunting season and no time for dogs to be scampering through the woods!
Now that we have entered that time of year when the garden is winterized
and the farm is looking a little drab,
I thought I might try growing some indoor veggies.
(If you are wondering what is on the shelves of the greenhouse...
it is a rag-tag collection of birds nests, a turtle shell, and an opossum skeleton.)
I've filled some of my galvanized tubs with soil and planted
lettuce, kale, radishes, and sugar peas
(all plants that are cold-tolerant).
Look what's beginning to emerge!
I'd like to be able to supplement our meals
with some home-grown greens during the coming months.
I'll keep you posted on our progress.
- On Dressing Dogs
With Winter's early arrival,I have had to start putting dog coats on the dogs in the morning for chore time. Oakley and Sam are used to this routine. Oakley was oblivious... Sam, mildly annoyed... Annie, spastic (at first)... It took a half hour...
- Reform School For Annie
Our Annie has left the puppy stageand made the transition to adolescence. And (if you have had dogs then you know this all too well) with adolescencecomes a whole new set of "problems". Our Annie has been causing a few problems around the neighborhood,as...
- Dills, Swills, Quills, Pills, Chills, And Frills
How about I take you on a little chronological trip through our weekend.... Friday afternoon: dills. I turned the last of our cucumbers and a few from our neighbor into these yummy dill pickles. Friday evening: swills. We had a lovely evening...
- I Wish I Had A Dollar For Every Time I Posted This Story....
You may remember me telling you last week that Annie-Oakley got skunked.Well, one week later it has happened again...only, this time it was only Oakley. For some reason, yesterday morning Oakley left Annie at home and went on a mission.I think he decided...
- A Tender Story
This is a little tale about Annie Oakley... Every morning, the dogs and I go out "to work." Just announcing that it's time for work puts everyone into a tailspin of excitement.Oh, how they love to run! I head to the barn and the dogs run ahead of...