Posted in Dogs on Aug 31st, 2011 4 Comments »
… in which the deer don’t take him seriously. Despite planting his feet in his most ferocious stance, and pulling his deep, most threatening bark from the depths of his powerful chest… ` … but the deer just stands there, watching him and chewing grass. For a moment it’s a stand off, Cody aka SBFD (Small But Fearless Defender) watching [...]
Posted in Donkeys, Horses on Aug 30th, 2011 3 Comments »
Poor Murphy is just miserable. The lameness he had last week seemed to go away so I just wrote it off as some minor soreness from him stepping or twisting in a weird way. Yesterday though he was seriously lame when I went out in the morning to feed… putting almost no weight on his [...]
Posted in Medical Stuff on Aug 25th, 2011 5 Comments »
Sigh… I’m kind of bummed that I can actually write a whole update just on medical stuff. I’d really love to write a whole update about interesting places we’ve gone, or famous people we’ve met. But, alas, we aren’t getting far from home these days and famous people never seem to stop by to visit… .. so you’re [...]
Posted in Medical Stuff on Aug 22nd, 2011 4 Comments »
I read a few blogs that fairly regularly post writings from the book Jesus Calling by Sarah Young. After reading bits and pieces from the book here and there for several months, but not buying it or even being very interested in it, I finally broke down and bought it last spring. Since then, it’s become a regular part of [...]
Posted in FASD, Medical Stuff, Psychiatric Stuff on Aug 20th, 2011 3 Comments »
… I recently found, and love: “Sometimes courage doesn’t roar; sometimes it’s a quiet voice at the end of the day that says I will try again tomorrow.” I would like to make this into a plaque or something for M’s room. He has so many struggles… the FASD, the schizophrenia, his malformed, painful, hips and [...]
Posted in Craftiness on Aug 18th, 2011 5 Comments »
I will not, any time soon, be weaving rush seats for fun and profit. But… I’ve found it is do-able. It’s not the easiest thing I’ve ever done, but it’s not impossible. About a year ago I ended up with the set of ladder back chairs that my folks bought back in the early 60′s. [...]
Posted in Homeschooling on Aug 16th, 2011 4 Comments »
Lots of changes going on in our homeschool lately. Good changes… I’m so excited about the school year! (Yes, after 11 years of homeschooling, I still get excited in the fall… the possibilities within each new curriculum book, the excitement of watching my children learn, and fun of learning new things myself.. I’ve never gotten tired [...]
Posted in Wildlife on Aug 11th, 2011 2 Comments »
One of our tadpoles is now a fully formed toad. R did some research and found (now that we have a more easily identifiable toad, versus just tadpoles) that our tadpoles are spadefoot toad babies. We had to figure out what to feed them, since we guessed goldfish food probably wouldn’t be the right food for [...]
Posted in Simple Pleasures on Aug 10th, 2011 2 Comments »
…lazily shimmering through a puffball R picked for me. ` ` Life is good.
Posted in Horses on Aug 6th, 2011 4 Comments »
…said R this afternoon, “I wish I had a stupid horse.” Murphy is not a stupid horse. According to our vet, he’s not even a “regular” horse. Every single time the vet is out for shots or whatever, he prefaces at least one sentence with “If you had a regular horse…”. As in “If you [...]
