Animals
- Donkey Lovin', Nosey Littles, And The Magic Of Digital Photography
Yesterday, being Wednesday, was my day to leave the farm for a few hoursand work with people rather than animals.It's a nice little break...mostly nice because it is so little.(I have our friends and neighbors, Jim and Kathy, to thank...because they...
- Did We Put Our Summer Clothes Away Too Soon?
Yesterday had us thinking twice about the decision to put our warm weather clothesaway for the year! With temperatures approaching 70 degrees,the goats were wishing they could take off their thick wooly winter coats. Hang in there, kids...Old Man Winter...
- 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...
- Catastrophe!!
It's a cruel world we live in...here on the edge of the woods. We suffered a horrible loss in the brooder house Tuesday night.Yesterday morning we found three decapitated chicklets in the house.We have no other evidence of what transpired except the...
- A Tale Of Two Kitties
This is an all-too-familiar scene... Yes, that's Bobby, one of our barn cats, headed up the driveway to the house.For years now, Bobby has begged to be an inside cat.And for years we have ignored his pleading.After all, our barn cats have a great...
Animals
Winter Wardrobes
Well, it's official!
It is time to put the summer clothes away and get the winter clothes out.
How do I know this?
Because all of our equines have done the same.
Their sleek summer coats are long gone....
replaced by a thick, furry,
and much shaggier version of the same.
The donkeys are once again growing their bangs.
These lush coats (along with plentiful hay) will keep the herd warm
through the coming Winter months.
The barn cats have also donned their winter coats.
Leo...
and Bobby are once again "long-hairs".
which brings me to another story.
Yesterday morning as I was feeding the cats,
(they eat their meals on top of the workbench in the barn)
I heard a 5th cat meowing.
It sounded as if the cry came from behind the workbench...
behind the peg board.
Fearful that I would have to tear down the wall to rescue a cat,
I began listening closely to pinpoint the origin of the cry.
It was coming from beneath the workbench...
in fact, it was coming from a Rubbermaid tote that holds our dry cat food.
I lifted the lid,
and out jumped a very relieved tabby cat...
the one that has been visiting the barn for meals lately.
I have no idea how she got stuck in there,
but luckily she was rescued in time!
I made her a home in the greenhouse, with food, water, litter and a heat lamp
above a soft bed.
Luxurious "digs" for a wanderer, I'd say!
All's well that ends well.
And in the end the perfect name for this cat is Moll Flanders
(she's had a rough life so far).
Oh, and she is the type of kitty of whom I will never get a decent picture,
unless someone else is restraining her.
Whenever she is close by, she wants to be picked up or petted...
which makes posing a bit difficult!
- Donkey Lovin', Nosey Littles, And The Magic Of Digital Photography
Yesterday, being Wednesday, was my day to leave the farm for a few hoursand work with people rather than animals.It's a nice little break...mostly nice because it is so little.(I have our friends and neighbors, Jim and Kathy, to thank...because they...
- Did We Put Our Summer Clothes Away Too Soon?
Yesterday had us thinking twice about the decision to put our warm weather clothesaway for the year! With temperatures approaching 70 degrees,the goats were wishing they could take off their thick wooly winter coats. Hang in there, kids...Old Man Winter...
- 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...
- Catastrophe!!
It's a cruel world we live in...here on the edge of the woods. We suffered a horrible loss in the brooder house Tuesday night.Yesterday morning we found three decapitated chicklets in the house.We have no other evidence of what transpired except the...
- A Tale Of Two Kitties
This is an all-too-familiar scene... Yes, that's Bobby, one of our barn cats, headed up the driveway to the house.For years now, Bobby has begged to be an inside cat.And for years we have ignored his pleading.After all, our barn cats have a great...