• Getting our trans fat on

    So by my calculations when we call it quits for the year in early November, our 2011 show season will have conservatively added up to some 21 days away from home. That’s 21 days either at shows themselves or traveling to or from them. As anyone that spends much time away from the comforts of…

  • Trailer packing today

    Can you smell the excitement?! I suspect the primary thing Kim and Jen can smell right now is the 5 months of dust coming off of all of our show supplies as they are brought out of storage at the Main Barn. Thank goodness for Swiffers and air compressors. All the show supplies – both…

  • A couple of new additions

    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…

  • Some photo updates

    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…

  • Walka, walka, walka

    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…