Blizzard 2016

As predicted, the snow starting falling on Friday, January 22nd and didn’t stop until late in the evening of January 23rd.  Thankfully, my son stayed with us to help and of course the snow blower was at the ready. Of particular concern to me was our smallest barn cat, Monkey, went missing right before the Read More…

Felt Like We Hit The Lottery

Ok, don’t ask me why, but we didn’t own a snow blower.  I think because we have a tractor with a bucket, we didn’t think it was necessary.  As panic settled in last night I started calling everywhere to find the elusive snow blower.  All the stores I called had sold out that morning. So, as Read More…

Waiting on Jonas

If you live in an area that gets any amount of snow, you know the mad preparations prior to a storm – running to the grocery store, hardware store and for some of us the liquor store For those of you with pets, making sure they have enough food, supplies and any meds is a Read More…

Jingle

On Christmas Eve Scott and I made a quick stop at Petco to pick the pups up something extra from Santa.  Of course I couldn’t just stick to the mission at hand so I wandered over to look at the adoptable cats and the critters for sale. I happened to see two poor baby betta fish Read More…

Al and the Hay Pillow

Happy New Year! Weight loss – a resolution for many and always a journey for the “easy keeper”. We have Haflinger and miniatures horses.  In the horse world, they are called “easy keepers” which means they can sustain (or gain) weight with very little food.  With the cost of hay being high, this sounds like Read More…