Animals
- Memories...
Dearest friends,I am humbled by the outpouring of love and supportthat you have gifted me and my family over the passing of oursweet old girl, Maddie. How lucky she is to have so many people keeping her alive in their thoughts! I thought, to end...
- Floating Teeth....mine And The Horses
Foggy evenings followed by freezing cold nightsmake for beautiful mornings... I awoke yesterday morning to find everything covered in ice crystals... a gentle reminder that we are still in the midst of winter...with even colder weather on its way. ...
- Happier Days!
Thanks so much for your words of sympathy and encouragement over our loss of Edith. Living at the edge of the woods brings both the beauty and the beasts of nature right to our front door. And we learn to take the good with the bad, the happy with the...
- Dog Days
There's probably nothing that our dogs love more than the adventure of going for a walk.And especially now after all the rainy days we endured last week.(We received over a foot of rain last week!) (Hickory, our 16 year old partially blind gal, gets...
- Health Care Crisis
These past several weeks we have been having a sort of health care crisishere at the farm. You know it's a crisis when the dogs take more medications than the humans! But, such is life with aging canines. With the adoption of our 15 year old...
Animals
For The Love of Pigs, Dogs, and Jam
I am sure that it has become quite obvious to you over the past year that
Maddie is in love with the piggies.
She fell in love at first sight when we brought them home...
tiny and just a couple of months old.
And over the past year her affection hasn't waned.
She visits with them whenever she can...
patiently allowing them to sniff and investigate her furry body.
Yesterday she took a ball into the pig yard with her.
(Maddie loves her balls better than anything!)
The sweetest thing happened...
she dropped her ball and pushed it with her nose towards MaryAnn,
who had come out to say hi to her.
MaryAnn sniffed it,
tried to pick it up in her mouth, and tasted it with her tongue
before decided it offered nothing edible to her.
With that, Maddie took it back.
Such sweet friends...
it makes my heart just ache with love.
These two completely opposite species who share a mutual affection for each other...
it just makes me swoon!
After swooning, I headed to the house to deal with the vegetables
that had taken over every counter in the kitchen.
Amanda and I quickly turned several pounds of tomatoes into a tomato/basil jam
(sounds great on a bagel with cream cheese, or on a grilled cheese sandwich!)
and also a batch of ground cherry/orange jam...
yummy!
Oh, and check out the kitchen help...
this is our 17 year old Hickory, partially blind, totally deaf, and somewhat senile...
but, there's nothing wrong with her nose.
She knows where to find the tastiest morsels.
Believe me, this is not an accepted practice in our house...
she did it behind my back!
- Memories...
Dearest friends,I am humbled by the outpouring of love and supportthat you have gifted me and my family over the passing of oursweet old girl, Maddie. How lucky she is to have so many people keeping her alive in their thoughts! I thought, to end...
- Floating Teeth....mine And The Horses
Foggy evenings followed by freezing cold nightsmake for beautiful mornings... I awoke yesterday morning to find everything covered in ice crystals... a gentle reminder that we are still in the midst of winter...with even colder weather on its way. ...
- Happier Days!
Thanks so much for your words of sympathy and encouragement over our loss of Edith. Living at the edge of the woods brings both the beauty and the beasts of nature right to our front door. And we learn to take the good with the bad, the happy with the...
- Dog Days
There's probably nothing that our dogs love more than the adventure of going for a walk.And especially now after all the rainy days we endured last week.(We received over a foot of rain last week!) (Hickory, our 16 year old partially blind gal, gets...
- Health Care Crisis
These past several weeks we have been having a sort of health care crisishere at the farm. You know it's a crisis when the dogs take more medications than the humans! But, such is life with aging canines. With the adoption of our 15 year old...