Cindy got this photo of blind Samantha in her crate after eating dinner at Widget's House.  She noticed that as soon as Samantha had finished eating, she got very quiet … and when Cindy looked inside the crate, she found Samantha sound asleep with her face in the food bowl.  We feed the dogs in…

Continuing on yesterday's theme, here is blind Callie snoozing away on the living room couch.  It's just not clear to me that she has enough beds and blankets available for her sleeping needs.  As zonked as she was, this must have been after another exhausting session grooming one of her clients here at the ranch.

I've posted before about how little Bailey loves to rest his head on a soft toy while he sleeps, usually by taking the toy into his mouth and using it as a prop.  The other evening I noticed a new twist on this procedure.  For some inexplicable reason, he had buried his face inside a…

Early Sunday morning, Alayne was leaving the house to start barn chores when she noticed the sun lighting up the frosty trees around us.  We had a brief ice fog over night, and it coated everything in white crystals.  I was at Widget's House taking care of the dogs before heading over to the horses…

Blind Cash turned two years old on Saturday, and as you can see, we had a beautiful weekend to celebrate his 2nd birthday.  I took the photo this afternoon, and Alayne came out to present the youngster for the camera.  (Yes, longtime blog readers, please note Mrs. Babushka makes another appearance!) By the time Cash…

I was sitting in a living room chair the other evening with my laptop and looked over to see this rather odd sight across from me.  That's Widget — or the Widge, as we often call her, or Widgee-woo, or (get your French accent on here) Wee-jhay — snoring away.  All I could see was…

My favorite saying about horses is this:  "If there's a way, they will."  Our horses, blind and sighted alike, continue to find novel ways to do things to get themselves into a jam … things that you wouldn't think possible.  Yesterday afternoon I was in my office, about to hit the "save" tab on the…

I took blind Penny into Missoula today for surgery to remove the cancerous toe we discovered last week.  In the photo above, Dr. Dave Bostwick is cutting the bone to remove the toe up to the first joint.  Based on the X-rays showing the cancer eating the bone, he thinks that will remove it all. …

This is the gate between our back yard (or what passes for a "back yard") and the dog cottages next to our house.  We valiantly kept it open all winter long by constant digging and chipping (note crow bar and shovel) but finally have given up.  It is now half-buried in snow and ice.  We…

There are times we wonder why we buy expensive beds and cots for the dogs when … well, when a box is all you need!  Anita M. from Texas kindly sent us a shipment of blankets a couple of weeks ago.  We opened the box, left it on the living room floor to unpack later,…