Exciting morning
I went out around 7 to take care of the animals. Everything went fine until I realized I left the back gate open, just as Merlin headed through it. As I walked towards him, he flagged his tail and trotted off down
Month: January 2010
Saddle sore
Yep, I’m quite sore, but it’s a good sore. I feel like I accomplished a lot with Merlin yesterday and am looking forward to more. I did some ground work in the morning and it went okay, but I’m considering holding off
Finding work for Split
It is so much easier to go to Gel whenever I need something done. It is amazing to me how much Gel has changed from the herding reject at six and a half months old, to a dog that I can go
Wild Pygmy Goats!
Well, Split got a bit of work today. She got it as a reward for behaving herself while I was watering the sheep and Buster. Bringing water up to the sheep using the ATV and wagon is a challenge. First you have
Yesterday Split took up ice skating
And failed miserably at it. Around 5:00 Rose started barking while looking down towards the pond which is not normal for her. I looked out the windows and didn’t see anything. I tried to call the Border Collies in, but only Gel
No more excuses!!!
I realized Friday afternoon that I was being a serious wimp! I had a bad case of cabin fever and why? Because it was a little bit cold outside? I kept enough of my northern clothing to be able to go outside
Who needs a freezer?????
I have what is left of the deer I processed in the milk room as well as a grain bag full of beef fat and bones. They’ve remained partially frozen for days. The wind picked up last night. I hate it when
I was right not to try to work Merlin
The ground is treacherous. It doesn’t look like it is, but it’s like an ice skating rink. Wally suggested that I swing over to the consignment store (the one that we discovered a few weeks back called Fabulous Finds) and look at
Gifts from above …
While I was out doing errands yesterday morning, I saw a deer carcass lying in a cemetery off a busy highway in Hickory. It was buck with antlers. I almost kept on driving, then I realized, that deer couldn’t have been lying
Make it go away!!!!!
I spent most of the day inside yesterday watching episodes of Clinton Anderson’s Natural Horsemanship previously aired on RFD television. Over the weekend, I joined Clinton Anderson’s No Worries Club which gave me access to almost 200 episodes of his show previously