Animals
- Blueberries, Turkeys And Dogs, Dogs, Dogs...and More Dog?
If you stop by the farm for a visit and cannot find me....check the garden or the blueberry patch.They are keeping me quite busy these days! Our 100 blueberry bushes are quite productive this year.We have been picking them every other day and getting...
- Ahhh, Thursdays
Ok,I have something to confess to you. I don't work on Thursdays...at least no farm work. Thursdays are my day off for the week.One day to rest the hands and feet makesme stronger for the other six days of farm chores. I am lucky to have our friends...
- Pasture Eyes
Each afternoon the Littles and the Bigs spend some time grazing in our pastures. During the summer months, they spend that time in the lower pasture in front of the barn. This pasture is adjacent to the dry lots and easily accessiblethrough...
- Traditions
Everyone loves traditions. You know, those things that we look forward to at specific times. Dogs are no exception to that. They, too, love traditions... rituals, if you will. Each morning, our dogs are used to the same ritual. "Viteyum time" we...
- You Can't Keep Them Young!
This morning started much the same as every morning on the farm. Our alarm clock is the first "wake up!" song of Mr. Cardinal (Mr. and Mrs. are year-long residents in the tree outside the farmhouse). Without fail, each day he sings the first stanza of...
Animals
Internal Clocks
What I failed to mention in yesterday's post about our dogs
is that until a few months ago we had 5 dogs.
We lost our elderly Hickory (17 year old Norfolk terrier) last December,
and our sweet, sweet Sadie (9 year old Bernese Mountain dog) in May.
So your suggestion that perhaps Sammie needs a puppy was heard...
but not likely acted upon.
Actually, I also failed to mention that Sam and Oakley are marvelous friends
and play together quite often.
The age difference, however, comes into play...
as Oakley tires out way before Sam does.
Who knows....if the right dog just happens to land in our laps.....
who knows.....
Thanks for your concern on Sammie's behalf... he was quite humbled.
The boys and I headed down to the garden yesterday morning to pick some more grapes.
I had my camera with me and hoped to snap some photos of the horses
out grazing in the front pasture.
The funny thing was...
as soon as I opened the gate and entered the pasture,
they all ran past me and back into the dry lot.
You see...
it was the usual time that I call them in for their pelleted feed.
They are such creatures of habit that they assumed by my presence
that it was time to come in.
It always amazes me how animals seem to have an internal clock,
and even an internal calendar.
Every day at noon time the chickens line up by their gate
in anticipation of being let out to free range.
(I keep them in for the morning to assure that eggs will end up in nesting boxes.)
As soon as the gate opens, they charge out with something as close to joy
as you could imagine.
They head for their dust baths in the woods,
and then out into the pasture to eat grass and insects.
Another amazing creature that has an internal clock/calendar is the hummingbird.
Each year around this time, the male hummingbirds head south to the Caribbean.
The females and their young, like this baby male hummer,
will stay behind until September...
at which time the babies are strong enough to make the trip.
Each and every day I am amazed by this earth and the animals that call it home.
I am surrounded by so many miracles of nature.
I am truly awed.
- Blueberries, Turkeys And Dogs, Dogs, Dogs...and More Dog?
If you stop by the farm for a visit and cannot find me....check the garden or the blueberry patch.They are keeping me quite busy these days! Our 100 blueberry bushes are quite productive this year.We have been picking them every other day and getting...
- Ahhh, Thursdays
Ok,I have something to confess to you. I don't work on Thursdays...at least no farm work. Thursdays are my day off for the week.One day to rest the hands and feet makesme stronger for the other six days of farm chores. I am lucky to have our friends...
- Pasture Eyes
Each afternoon the Littles and the Bigs spend some time grazing in our pastures. During the summer months, they spend that time in the lower pasture in front of the barn. This pasture is adjacent to the dry lots and easily accessiblethrough...
- Traditions
Everyone loves traditions. You know, those things that we look forward to at specific times. Dogs are no exception to that. They, too, love traditions... rituals, if you will. Each morning, our dogs are used to the same ritual. "Viteyum time" we...
- You Can't Keep Them Young!
This morning started much the same as every morning on the farm. Our alarm clock is the first "wake up!" song of Mr. Cardinal (Mr. and Mrs. are year-long residents in the tree outside the farmhouse). Without fail, each day he sings the first stanza of...