The week before last, I did an interview for Communicate Good, a website run by a nonprofit consultant named Rich Polt. He has a regular feature called "Talking Good," in which he interviews people who run nonprofits. His questions are deliberately different and offbeat. He posted the interview with me on July 5th. You can…

I'm bringing Widget in to announce we're going to take a blog break this week in light of the July 4th holiday. Alayne got this shot of Widget just before we sat down for dinner tonight; Widget, knowing dinner was on the table, had started woo-woo-wooing — singing for (our) supper. By the time Alayne…

In case you're wondering what we're doing with the rest of our spare time, here's an example: one of our potato patches. I took this photo on Sunday afternoon, after I had finished "hilling" the potatoes … drawing up the soil around the base of the plants as they grow. I planted this crop over…

I need to take a break from blogging this week because we are just swamped at the moment — we're haying and don't have any extra time. I'll resume posting next week.

Alayne got this shot earlier today of some of the gang in the front yard. As it happened, three of them had their noses down, sniffing around. When you have this many dogs sharing the same space, there's always something interesting to sniff (apparently … I can only assume!). That's Mad Max on the left,…

One of the (many) things we're learning how to do this year is to make our own hay — and at the same time, learn how to use draft horses to make the hay. For over a decade now, we've purchased hay, and it has always been our single largest feed cost. Like a lot…

Because of lightning strikes Monday night, we lost Internet service and only have it back intermittently today. Will post once it is back up reliably. Otherwise, all is well here.

Alayne got this shot the other day of blind Sophie enjoying the lush springtime grass under the apple tree blossoms. It seems like we go from "when will the grass finally grow?" to "oh jeez, we need to cut the grass!" in just about a week. And yes, that yard has since been mowed! The…

I mentioned in the last post that Max had his post-cataract surgery check-up on Tuesday. While his eyes had healed nicely from the surgery, our ophthalmologist, Dr. Sarah Hoy, did notice that small webs of protein clots had developed just in front of his new lenses. This is not unusual, and is "fixed" with the…

A few weeks ago Holly began stealing Wilbur's food dish from his "apartment," as we call it — the big crate stuffed with bedding where he spends the night, as well as eats his meals. At first we thought she was only doing her usual pre-wash for us, but then we began suspecting — correctly,…