Yes, when we got up this morning, it was 10 below zero.  I took this photo from our front door, looking west towards Widget’s House, about 7:30 a.m.  There wasn’t a peep coming from over there … the dogs were totally sacked out. On summer mornings by this time you can hear them all barking,…

We had a fierce winter storm blow in last night, although more wind than snow, and the temperature plunged.  This morning when we got up it was 11 degrees.  All three-legged Cody had to do was look out his cottage door this morning and decide he was NOT going out there.  "No way," he seemed…

We’re now successfully weaned our little blind foal, Brynn, and it went without a hitch.  Regular blog readers may recall that baby Brynn has several medical problems, including a hole in her heart, an ectopic ureter (one kidney is sending urine to her uterus and not her bladder), and malformed vertebrae in her neck.  But…

I spent most of today spreading the final windrow of compost on one of our south pastures, making multiple trips with the tractor and manure spreader from the compost "yard" behind Lena’s Barn to the pasture.  On each trip I would drive through the pasture where two of our old guys, blind Blue and blind…

Here are two of our Dachshunds, Callie who is blind and Bailey who has orthopedic and neurological issues, hanging out by the dinner table.  I thought this was an interesting photo because of the way the flash reflected straight back from Callie’s retinas.  Hmm.  A bit early for Halloween, perhaps. Callie’s blind from progressive retinal…

Alayne took blind Willie the Beagle and paralyzed Spirit the Yorkie to our vets in Helena today.  Willie is dripping blood from his urinary tract, and he also has heartworms, so we need to have his heart function assessed before we can begin treating him for the heartworms.  Spirit has developed an ulcer of some…

Our horse trainer, Nichole Zupan, came by for her regular Monday evening workout with blind Nikki.  I took this photo while Nichole was saddling up Nikki for a session in the round pen.  Nichole’s schedule with Nikki is Monday and Wednesday evenings and Friday mornings.  We try to keep to this three times-a-week routine, weather…

I was headed out to start barn chores this evening when I looked back over my shoulder and saw this rather peculiar sight by the front of the house.  Deaf-and-blind Spinner, wearing a cone on her head, was pressed up against the wall as if she were listening for termites or trying to pick up…

We noticed yesterday evening that our blind horse Chance hadn’t eaten all day.  Usually he plows through all the hay and grain we can give him.  He is beginning to deteriorate from his two-year long battle with lymphoma.  Just in the past two months he’s begun losing weight and his hair coat has become dull,…

So … THIS morning when I went into the cat house to clean, look what I found — wobbly Mink and deaf Snowball squeezed into that little round bed.  It turns out there IS room for two after all, assuming you like a tight fit.  Lulu was right, and apparently Mink just wasn’t very accommodating…