Animals
And to those of you who have a more severe winter than ours...
you have all of my sympathy and an apology also (for complaining)...
Hang in there....Spring is coming!
- Co-mingling
Last week's cool weather has left us and we are once againin the midst of summer-like days. Our weekend was full.Amanda and Tim's friend, John, who attended Lutheran Seminary and who will be marrying them,came to spend the weekend and discuss...
- Walk On The Wild Side #2
Hubbs and I headed over to the 100 Acre Wood yesterday morning...the moon was still out... the sun rising in the East... a magnificent fall sky! We took the dogs for a run and removed the camera cards from the trail cam...over 300 photos in all.I felt...
- The Good, The Bad And The Ugly...and A Giveaway
And....not necessarily in that order. First, the ugly: #1O'Malley has a rip roaring case of conjunctivitis.Her eye is closed in this picture...but believe me, if it were open...it would definitely be a stink-eye! #2Our grapes are dying on the vine...drying...
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We are in that time of year when there is not much naturally occurring nutrition available for our animals. As you can see in this picture our front pasture is dry and barren.Yet, every day the horses love to go out and forage.They find precious...
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Take a walk with me,will you?Down the lane, across our hay field,to the lush green forest that awaits. We lovingly call those woodsThe Hundred Acre Wood. (Yes, we adopted the Winnie the Pooh theme for the area) "So help me if you will, I've...
Animals
Issuing The Old Man An Ultimatum
Just like the old boyfriend...
the one you broke up with months ago,
that still hangs around outside your bedroom window at night...
the one whose stalker-ish appearances make you teeter on the edge of insanity...
that is the relationship I am currently having with my old man... Winter!
After last week's extended encounter,
I thought I might be rid of him for a while.
But, no....
he came right back around again Saturday morning...
dumping another 4 inches on all of the trails
that I had laboriously shoveled opened just days before.
And if that weren't bad enough, he decided to give a hard one-two punch
to our adorable forest hideaway...
crushing our lovely platform tent
and turning it into a pile of fractured, splintered 2 x 4's and 4 X 4's,
not to mention the severe lacerations made in the tent canvas by those wooden shards.
So, now, Dear Winter...
consider yourself served...
with a fresh restraining order.
You will leave me alone,
or else!
Have I made myself perfectly clear?
Good.
Dear Winter, you know I love you.
But, get yourself to rehab, ok?
But, get yourself to rehab, ok?
I will welcome you back with open arms next year...
once you have had a chance to work on your issues.
PS... we will rebuild the platform and re-pitch the tent.
It will need some repairs to the canvas...
and new poles inside.
It could have been worse...
no one was hurt.
And to those of you who have a more severe winter than ours...
you have all of my sympathy and an apology also (for complaining)...
Hang in there....Spring is coming!
- Co-mingling
Last week's cool weather has left us and we are once againin the midst of summer-like days. Our weekend was full.Amanda and Tim's friend, John, who attended Lutheran Seminary and who will be marrying them,came to spend the weekend and discuss...
- Walk On The Wild Side #2
Hubbs and I headed over to the 100 Acre Wood yesterday morning...the moon was still out... the sun rising in the East... a magnificent fall sky! We took the dogs for a run and removed the camera cards from the trail cam...over 300 photos in all.I felt...
- The Good, The Bad And The Ugly...and A Giveaway
And....not necessarily in that order. First, the ugly: #1O'Malley has a rip roaring case of conjunctivitis.Her eye is closed in this picture...but believe me, if it were open...it would definitely be a stink-eye! #2Our grapes are dying on the vine...drying...
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We are in that time of year when there is not much naturally occurring nutrition available for our animals. As you can see in this picture our front pasture is dry and barren.Yet, every day the horses love to go out and forage.They find precious...
-
Take a walk with me,will you?Down the lane, across our hay field,to the lush green forest that awaits. We lovingly call those woodsThe Hundred Acre Wood. (Yes, we adopted the Winnie the Pooh theme for the area) "So help me if you will, I've...