We're in another cold spell — last night was 26 below zero (-32 C), tonight we're forecast to be 28 below — which means keeping the wood stove going during the day. I took the photo above of Daisy the miniature Dachshund trying to get as close as she possibly could to that stove. I had just started the fire not long before, which is why it's blazing away, but it hadn't really started radiating out a lot of heat yet. Before I got there with the camera, she had been staring intently at the glass door of the stove, as if she were encouraging it to heat up faster.
An hour or two later, the stove is now putting out a lot of warmth and blind Widget has found just the perfect spot to lie down and soak it all in:
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Some folks have asked how Beaver is doing without his brother Rooster. We were worried at first, given how intensely they were bonded, but after a couple of days of constantly looking out across the pasture for Rooster, Beaver finally re-focused on our small group of sighted horses. It helped that two of our sighted mares, Blueberry and Patches, were in heat that week. Having the two girls constantly coming on to him — tails raised, bumping up against him, nickering at him — diverted his attention away from his missing brother and towards the two shameless tarts. Yes, Beaver is gelded, but it doesn't mean he isn't going to notice that kind of behavior!
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