A quite afternoon here on the farm: both of our kids are off at sleepovers at friends’ houses. This shall, at the very least, lead to watching a cheesy movie (or two), a nice bottle of wine, and sleeping in tomorrow morning. All craziness is relative. I have posted a couple of new critters to…
Just a quick note to say that I have updated some of the existing sales listings on our web site (Open Herd and AN shall have to wait a bit) using new photographs I took the other day. If time allows between now and the NAAS there will also be 5 or 6 entirely new…
The simple truth is that this blog had existed for 9 months without a Fozzy the Bear reference, something which could not stand. That situation has now been remedied. So yesterday was spent by myself and the Birthday Girl trying to work some of the kinks out of the rookie show animals. Magnanimous for his…
Apparently King Winter took issue with my cheek yesterday and here on the second day of the new season delivered a parting shot of his own. In the normal course of things a spring storm is something which we would have taken in stride. Alas, I was in a slightly awkward position at the time…
Welcome to the spring equinox. Thank you King Winter for visiting us again and giving us all of that luscious snow to ski on the last few months. We look forward to seeing you again next December (really) but for now please be sure not to let the door hit you in the arse on the…
Just this morning I was saying to Jen that we really shouldn’t be surprised by the speed of seasonal change any more after living here for 16 years. It still takes me aback though that we could go from what felt like an almost intractable winter less that a week go to then losing 75%…
