This is what we're doing right now to contain our fence-jumper, Travis — he's spending most of the day in the "wobbler den" on the front porch of Widget's House.  When we let him out in the morning, he gets to race around the yards while we're over there scooping poop and doing laundry and…

A mild spring snowstorm yesterday morning turned into a roaring blizzard in the afternoon and lasted until about 8 p.m.  After sustained winds as high as 25 mph (40 kph) coming from due north, we were left with snowdrifts piled up around the ranch in new and interesting places.  When the winds suddenly quit yesterday…

I was over at Widget's House scooping poop on Friday and watched Travis racing back and forth between the yards, literally leaping over the fences as he went.  He was showing off for me, and how better than to take advantage of the deep snow to run a steeplechase course around the building?  Travis is…

Alayne and I are just blown away by the outpouring of support for Callie.  Oh my goodness!  As of this afternoon, between donations that have come in online and from checks we've received in the mail already this week, and from commitments we know about for gifts coming next week — we now have enough…

We just received a wonderful email update with these photos from Tia and Karl M., who adopted Bunny our three-legged cat last summer.  They have taken to calling Bunny their "4th dog," for reasons that are clear from the photos. Tia wrote, "Shadow, our 10-year old, was playing in the yard and tore his doggy ACL. …

It was finally warm enough the other day to open the cat house window to let the adventuresome ones wander out into their enclosure.  It was the first time in months they'd had a chance to go outside.  Blind Herbie, as usual, heard the window open and zoomed right out. But then, almost immediately, he…

Our snowpack is finally starting to melt — we call this time of year "The Big Melt."  I took this photo of our drive on Sunday afternoon, and then we woke up Monday morning to three inches of new snow on the ground and a drive that had disappeared.  But the three inches has melted…

I got this shot out the dining room window at breakfast a couple of days ago — that's "our" fox in the process of making her morning rounds. (To be honest, we don't know her gender but for some reason we've decided she's a she.)  Just about dawn, she emerges from somewhere and heads down…

Our internal medicine specialist, Dr. Dave Bostwick, heard back from the oncologist at Washington State University's veterinary teaching hospital on Friday afternoon.  The cost of the radiation treatment for her brain tumor is steep — the oncologist estimated it would be in the $3,800 to $4,200 range — and it would take a total of…

We found out yesterday evening that blind Callie does indeed have a brain tumor.  A large one.  In this vertical view of her head from the CAT scan image, it's the bright glowing thing at the base of her brain at the front end.  (The dark area in the center of her brain is the…