I painted today…from 10 am until 4:30 or so. Content with what I had accomplished, I left the house, braving the ice rink that is our parking area… Elsa was at my heels. Lucas was by the garage and quickly came at my request. Dally was nowhere to be found. It is now almost midnight,…
Category: Dogs
Struggles
Today the English Shepherd breed is having a major good news/bad news day. The good news is that today, a puppy miller/dog hoarder is being put out of business. She has 200 English Shepherds at her place outside of Billings, Montana. The bad news is that these dogs range from pups to 6 years old…
Gathering Calves OOPE
Today it almost reached 40 degrees! A 70 degree improvement over the other morning. Gotta love Wyoming. Since the weather was nice, we decided we’d better kick more calves up to the feed ground before the weather dropped off or snowed more. Off to the fields went Brandon, Vernon, and I. My partner for the…
Almost Christmas
I was so happy… I had sent out my Christmas cards yesterday… ta-da! lalalalala… I felt so… so… accomplished. fulfilled. complete. Then today I received a Christmas card from one of my puppy buyers. Don’t get me wrong, I was thrilled to hear from them and how Elle is now a great dog and they…
Multitasking
1. My furnace is fully functional now… oh, how I love the warmth! 2. Vernon hauls Lucas and I to Ten Sleep School so the kids can read to Lucas. We are a “reading therapy team” and children LOVE to read out loud to Lucas. He likes it too. Can you tell? 3. Vernon continues…
December’s First Snow
Last night the snow began right at dark… pellets that remind me of fertilizer! Within minutes the snow was an inch deep and it slowly continued throughout the night. By morning 5 inches of snow lay quietly on my world. My furnace had quit on Saturday… and now, believe me, I missed it! I always…
An Audience
Well, we had to let the kids go back to their respective “homes” today. Three went back to Laramie (cousin Caleb included) and one to Kaycee. We cleaned up some garbage at the Mills place, doctored the sick calf, loaded up Caleb’s snowmachine into his pickup, ate some pitiful lunch and then they left. It…
Girls
This is an OOPE photo from the other day. Note the dark edge of my pocket, proof the camera was really there! I liked it then… but after spending the weekend with my mother, I like this photo even more. This is Dally and Elsa trotting along peacefully side by side. The work is getting…
Introducing Jazz
My daughter recently came home to help with our cows…and to celebrate her 24th birthday. (Wow. I can’t be that old… ) She recently became the proud owner of one Miniature Australian Shepherd pup. We’ve had lots of Aussies and Aussie crosses in her lifetime… and barring the fleeting love affair she had with beagles…
The Huntress
“English Shepherds have been bred for generations as all-purpose, working farm dogs. Their responsibilities have ranged from herding and protecting stock, to dispatching vermin, guarding the home, and watching over children.” That is a direct quote (my italics) from The English Shepherd Club website (www.englishshepherd.org). If you’ve read my blog for any length of time,…
Songdogs
Caught in midstride, Lucas and Elsa enjoy the snow we had last week and all the delicious scents it seemed to quadruple. Please ignore the tons of cockleburs, burdock, houndstongue, and mystery stickers imbedded in little Elsa’s tail. I’m working on it with the Furminator, a little at a time! And yes, I also know…