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Dogs

Sap Season

March 12, 2011

Our sap buckets are starting to fill up, slowly. We’ll have a good day like yesterday, where it was running hard and fast, and then it’ll be a day like today, with nary a drip. We could boil now, but will probably wait a couple more days, which is good because we aren’t quite ready. [...]

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Just one day

February 13, 2011

It sounds so simple: deliver 8 piglets, pick up a bred cow. First, we needed to get the livestock trailer unburied. We’ve had so much snow and it hadn’t moved in months. (This photo is from two snow storms ago but it’s the most recent I could find.) We’d been using it for Faith and [...]

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Happy Birthday, Buffy and Faith!

January 10, 2011

Our two mighty slayers turned one year old today. We haven’t had them a whole year, of course. We got them in mid-May. But there is definite maturing happening with them both. Buffy is the bigger of the two. She towers over Maggie at this point. She’s not quite as adept at climbing fences as [...]

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Impressive Pyrs

January 5, 2011

Frank left just before 8 this morning to take the truck down to be inspected, without doing any of the morning chores first. He left me sipping coffee under my blanket with the Icies, and expected to be back quickly. (Yeah. That never happens.) I’d slept all through the night without pain pills again, for [...]

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Happy 4th Birthday, Bjarki

December 31, 2010

What a year he’s had! He had a great year. We learned that he’s a great daddy, not that we ever doubted it. He loves babies of all types, after all, but he thinks baby dogs are The Bomb. He babysat them all the time. He played with them. He showed them how to play [...]

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Snowmobile Season

December 30, 2010

With all the snow, there are lots of snowmobilers out and about around here lately. Getting the Pyrs used to snowmobiles is tricky. They are pretty convinced that they are here to steal or harm their critters, especially at night. We have a snowmobile trail that cuts right across our land. With all the snow [...]

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Beautiful Day

December 28, 2010

It was just stunningly gorgeous outside today. Big, blue sky, clear and cold. The wind wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, but it still went right through you. We are wearing layers upon layers, which is the only way to survive out there. Not that I was out there that much, because [...]

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