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False Spring Sun

This weekend was enough to make us think that spring had come to Seattle. But alas, it’s just a bit of nice weather that will be replaced by rain again later this week.

We worked on the bathroom a bit this weekend, but we also just got out and enjoyed the sun. I pulled some winter [...]

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Living with Ponies

Aunts Betsy, Susie & me with Peanuts the Pony

As far back as I can remember there were ponies. First there was Peanuts our shetland pony. He lived in the barn with crazy white Qeony and her spotted sons Travis, Blaze and Shane.

At age 7, after what I can only assume was much asking, I [...]

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Never a Dull Moment

Apparently Cody has an aversion to his right front shoe - or at least to wearing it for longer than 7 weeks at a time. This is the second shoe job in a row that he’s pulled his right shoe off two weeks before he was due to have it replaced anyway. He did a [...]

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Frozen, Continued (with pictures)

I get this weather forecast email every afternoon. I originally signed up for it so that I’d have pre-warning of frosts in fall 2008. I’ve kept it because it’s often useful. We thought last night was cold at 13F, but tonight the prediction is for only 9 degrees above 0. Wow - I [...]

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Horses run amok

This isn’t a current picture of the barn (I’m lazy you see), but imagine that where that garbage can and those bales are is my potting table. And between those and the front of the barn are the baskets of potatoes and pepper we harvested this year, waiting for us to figure out where to [...]

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Red in the morning…

It’s been a run of gorgeous sunrises around here. The kind that make me welcome the time change and the fact that it’s again getting light just as I leave for work. Of course, I know that it won’t last and pretty soon I’ll be leaving in the dark and getting home in the dark. [...]

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Pulling up my big girl panties

Remember that campy little trailer we bought back in April? Well, it was cute while it lasted around here. First of all, you should always inspect the brakes on a trailer - we ended up having to replace both axels and the brakes to make it useable and legal in WA state (that sucked). Then [...]

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