— First, a quick "programming note": I will be taking a blog break next week in light of the Labor Day holiday and will resume posting the week of September 10th. — I had posted a couple of months ago about our potato crop. Well, last weekend I started harvesting them, and wow, do we…

It doesn't matter how many Kuranda dog cots we have in the yards — if there's a good size hole in the ground, the dogs prefer it. And it doesn't matter what their disability is … they'd rather curl up in a hole. This is blind and deaf Spinner, who spends a lot of time…

I know it looks beautiful, but those trees are turning way too early. In fact, they started turning back in July! The strange weather — 80 degree days back in March followed by frosts, long dry spells followed by torrential downpours, and hotter than normal summers in general — is no doubt taking a toll.…

This is another field we've been working on this summer. As I mentioned in a previous post about the other field we cleared, this was also part of the same, once-productive farm. This used to be exceptional hayground about 40 years ago. We know that because the fellow who picks up our trash said his…

I took these photos on Friday evening of Wilbur checking out the long row of dog dishes drying on the back deck. The barely one-year old dishwasher quit working on Thursday — about a week after the warranty expired, of course! — and so we're back to washing them all by hand. This is the…

I thought you'd enjoy seeing some photos of the farm taken by someone else — in this case, Judy H., who was here for our visitor day earlier this month. Judy took a lot of very interesting shots during her visit, posted them on her Flickr page, and kindly gave us permission to share them…

Dexter hasn't really been himself since we lost our beloved Goldie a couple of months ago. He loved Goldie — she was really his best pal, and the dog he snuggled with most of the time (though sometimes not to his liking!). He seemed to spend the first few weeks looking for her, and was…