When It Rains It Pours

And I don’t mean the weather. Over the last couple of days Tundra had a issue with pancreatitis, Xavier hurt his paw and Spice was super congested. Fortunately, I was able to get Tundra and Xavier on the mend pretty quickly without a trip to the vet. Spice on the other hand had to go Read More…

Rescue Me

Besides running my own small farm, one of my passions is horse rescue. Many folks (even in the horse community) don’t realize that over a hundred thousand horses a year sold at auction are actually bought by kill buyers and shipped to Canada and Mexico to be slaughtered and sold as food for people. If Read More…

Binny Takes the Plunge

The other night I decided I should get to bed at a reasonable time so went up about nine.  About five minutes later a cold, soaking wet Binny jumped in the bed.  I knew immediately what had happened.  Scott let the pups out and with the snow being so high, Binny had walked onto the Read More…

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…

Yin and Yang or Lacy and Xavier

Lacy and Xavier are zonked out after a great evening with family and friends.  Who is that watching them sleep?  I’ll introduce her in another post.  Lacy and “X” look so innocent when they are sleeping   Earlier that day was a different story ….. Lacy is tri color and Xavier is white.  Both are full bred Read More…

Dog Bed Hack

Merry Christmas Eve!  First, I want to confirm that my Carhartts are indeed back in the closet – it’s almost 70 degrees already.  We might hit a record high today. Crazy weather, but I’m not complaining. Back to the original subject – the dog bed hack.  To set the scene, I need to tell you Read More…