Our wonderful groomer, Lori Fillion from Littleton, New Hampshire, came out today for her regularly scheduled appointment for the two blind Poodle sisters, Molly and Priscilla.  Those two girls take up much of the day, but Lori can usually fit in at least one more who might need a make-over, and today it was the…

Any time Kate calls me in my office late on Fridays, I want to duck under my desk.  Normally she will text me during the day with brief updates or if she comes across something she thinks I should know about.  She saves the rare voice calls for … well, horsey disasters.  So when my…

Now that more than a week has passed since I wrote the post about raising our own cattle, I wanted to follow up on a couple of questions people asked in their comments.  But first, that's Suzette above with her calf Suzanna in a photo we took late last fall.  I will admit, we posted…

I took our little old lady Samantha to the vet clinic this morning.  Despite her age, Sam has been a pretty healthy girl in the time we've had her.  But she's started peeing while she sleeps, which is something we've seen before in younger female dogs (and is easily treated with phenylpropanolamine — which for…