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Who me?

There are phone calls you don’t want to get. Like the ones that come from the neighbor that feeds your puppy and checks the horses mid-day (hi Katie!). Yesterday, I got one of those calls with the sweetest message that “everyone’s okay, well mostly, but call me as soon as you can”. So I knew [...]

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What happens at your house before 7:30 am?

I’m not sure what happens at your house before 7:30 am? Around here, it’s a lot. On Sunday morning, I happened to have my phone in my pocket and decided to do an “early morning in the life of” photos.

I’m a lazy stall cleaner. Monday through Friday, Katie (our fantastic neighbor) cleans stalls for us. [...]

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Say Hello to Hank!

Last weekend our good friends Ron and Mia came over for dinner after choosing a black lab puppy. They happened to mention (like 18 times) that there was one male puppy left and wouldn’t it be fun to have brothers. We’ve been casually considering a puppy since we lost Sam last summer (he was 13!) [...]

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Sunny Days and Lazy Horses

We had sun last Sunday and in honor of the occasion I let the boys onto the lowest pasture (we put up cross fencing early this spring) and let them tromp around in the wet to eat some long grass. I went out in the afternoon to try to get some garden pictures and got [...]

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Saying Goodbye to Cody

Cody's First Day at The Hennery

Sometime Friday Cody twisted something deep inside his gut. He was the same old Cody when I checked the horses at 10pm on that night, stoic to the end, but went downhill sometime later on. By the time we realized that he was colicing on Saturday morning it was [...]

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Celebrating Spring

Spring arrived with a bit of a warm bluster around here. It wasn’t quite the day we’d planned, for a lot of reasons, but spring began anyway and it started with cleaning and seedlings.

While Mike turned the manure/compost pile and managed the brush burning pile, I organized seedlings and hauled chicken feed various places. So [...]

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2 Years and Counting

Bessy can’t believe tbeen 2 years to the day since we moved up here from our house in the city, and neither can we.

A lot has happened, a lot has changed, a lot remains the same. I really planned to do this date more justice than it seems I’m going to tonight. But… Yay! Two [...]

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