Here’s blind Willie, a Beagle who came to us a week ago from an Atlanta, Georgia, Beagle rescue group.  When we woke up today it was 13 degrees, far below the forecasted low for the night.  So when Alayne let Willie out of the isolation cottage this morning, she put a fleece doggie shirt on…

Alayne took this photo of me spreading compost with our manure spreader this afternoon.  It’s that time of year, when the compost windrows have finished cooking and curing and can be spread on the pastures.  We have several days worth of spreading to do.  Then we’ll start dragging the fields with the chain harrow.  Fall…

I took this photo while Alayne and I were having lunch yesterday and being crowded by some uninvited guests.  That’s blind Evelyn on the left and blind Helen on the right.  Helen is Alayne’s office mate … she basically lives in Alayne’s office, and would rather be there than anywhere else.  But when she heard…

I was cleaning the cat house this morning when wobbly Mink climbed into the basket bed with deaf Snowball, presenting a perfect picture of the all-black cat next to the all-white cat.  I went to the house to get the camera, came back, and took this photo. Once finished with the cats, I scooped poop…

Every night around 9 p.m., Alayne and I start the process for putting the dogs up for bedtime.  We begin in our own house, herding all the dogs outside for one last potty trip, and then take most of them to Birdie’s Cottage and Kelly’s Cottage where they sleep.  (About six sleep in our house.) …

I swear I wasn’t going to post yet another ‘Widget sleeping’ photo, but then this one came along today.  Alayne had taken a load of laundry out of the dryer late this morning (mostly dog bedding) and piled it on a living room chair to fold at lunch.  At some point when we weren’t paying…

I walked out the back door of our house yesterday afternoon and saw Claude the blind Great Dane puppy and blind and deaf Spinner sharing a dog cot.  Now, Claude is really into sharing … he loves to lay down next to other dogs, or as sometimes happens, right on top of them because he’s…

Last night at bedtime we put blind Callie in her crate in Kelly’s Cottage, and went out to bring in some more dogs.  When Alayne and I returned a few minutes later, this is what we found.  Somehow Callie had dived under all her fresh bedding, burrowing like Dachshunds often do, then came to the…

We were delighted to have a producer/ director from KSPS Public Television in Spokane, Washington, here yesterday and today filming for a story that will air on Thanksgiving.  The program is called Northwest Profiles and will air at 7 p.m.  I took this photo of Bill Fitzner from KSPS videotaping over at Widget’s House this…

We’re going to be at Pet Fest 2006 at the Missoula County Fairgrounds tomorrow.  The show opens at 10 a.m.  We’ll have a booth and our exhibit on disabled animals, and we’ll have the Ambassador of the Rolling Dog Ranch, Miss Birdie, on hand to charm visitors.  So if you’re in Missoula and get a…