Animals

Hello Sun!

By Sunday afternoon our almost-week-long rain event finally ended.

We were ready to get out of the house...

and so were the dogs!

It seemed as good a time as any to tackle trimming feet.

And so we stopped at the sheep yard, with Ritz in hand,

and began the process.

I couldn't take photos during the trimming as it took both of Hubbs' and my hands

to accomplish this task.

We have learned that it is much easier to trim the sheep hooves

while the sheep are partially on their backs...

So Hubbs had the job of holding them while I trimmed them.

These photos were taken afterward,

and as you can see... no one looks at all traumatized by the earlier events.

Next on the list were the goats...

also uneventful.

(I prefer uneventful!)

It was time to liven things up a little, so we put a halter on Red

and took him and the dogs for a walk in the woods.

On the way, we stopped for a quick visit with Becky's horses...

I am trying to desensitize Red to all sorts of stimuli,

so walking him all over our property helps with that.

I was hoping that perhaps some deer would jump out during our walk,

but that didn't happen.

It was a peaceful walk...

which Red seemed to enjoy.

We put the game cameras out along our trails.

(We'll share what we capture on them later this week.)

By the time we returned to the pastures and barn,

the sun was shining.

The thirst quenching rain of the previous days had rejuvenated our dry and dusty

farm once again.

The rain had knocked down more chestnuts,

so I stopped along the driveway to pick them up and feed them to Ginger and MaryAnn.

Can you see the smiles on their faces?

They are most definitely happy girls!

I've got to say, that after the rainy week that we had,

I am a happy girl as well now that the sun is back!

The coming week is to be cool and sunny... a gift of wonderful Autumn.

- Grammie And The Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
I have been accused of exuding a little too much positivity from time to time.Today I will completely undo that.You see, every once in a while a day comes along that tries my soul.Not just a little...like when the dogs get sprayed by a skunk...but a little...

- A Walk Onthe Wild Side
Week One The trail cameras have been up for only two days now.Hubbs and I took the dogs for an early morning walk into the 100 acre woodsto fetch the SD card from each camera. With excitement and anticipation, we hiked the half mile through light rain to...

- Between The Raindrops
Yesterday brought heavy rain showers,so morning chores were done in rain gear.At some point you have to just decide that you are going to get wet...and go with it! Most of the animals chose to stay under cover(except the horses, of course.... a monsoon...

- 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...

- Rainy Day Projects
Warm weather arrived suddenly this week. Several days of warm, dry, sunny days made watering necessary. By the end of the week, our four rain barrels were completely empty. Finally, today it is raining....a good steady soft rain. The kind of rain that...

Animals