No sooner had I posted last night’s blog on the mountain of grain than one of our fabulous supporters e-mailed with news to make the horses happy:  She had just read the blog and was sending a donation to cover the full $572 cost of the grain and woods shavings we had delivered yesterday.  Wow.…

On my weekly trips into Missoula, I stop at Cenex and load up the truck with equine senior grain and bales of wood shavings for the stalls.  This means I’m in the back of the truck, lifting and pushing and stacking the 50 lb grain bags and the big, bulky bales of shavings as the…

We’re getting ready to send out our first email monthly newsletter on Thursday, March 2, so if you’d like to receive it, please sign up for it on our Web site home page here.  There’s a simple registration form that takes 30 seconds to fill out.  Our privacy policy is simple:  We don’t share our…

Kathryn called me from Widget’s House this morning and said, "I think I’ve got a ‘blog moment’ for you … you should see Timmy playing with his Kong!"  So I grabbed the camera and headed over.  Timmy came to us a few months ago from a Denver vet clinic. We were told he was like…

Here’s part of the gang at Widget’s House, waiting to go inside this evening for dinner.  Kathryn is on the other side of the door … she had been preparing their bowls.  From left to right are Buzz the Golden Retriever with a neurological condition, Luke the blind Lab, blind Bud, blind Penny, and blind…

We started Angel on her sub-Q fluids this morning to help treat her chronic kidney disease, which our vet just diagnosed last week.  This beautiful blind and deaf girl came from Spokane County Animal Control a couple of years ago.  Recently she had been dropping weight and losing her appetite, and after a battery of…

Our farrier, Rich Boyle from Simms, Montana, came out today for his regularly scheduled trip to trim the horses’ hooves.  In this photo our employee Beth is holding blind Faith (we actually call this old mare ‘Snitty’ because of, uh, certain personality traits) while Rich trims her hooves. Very interested in the whole operation is…

We’re still digging out from the last couple of days of non-stop snow.  Beth was on the tractor for quite a while today, clearing snow from in front of the barns and around the other buildings.  This evening I needed to unhitch the horse trailer and had to clear some more ground to park it…

With apologies to the U.S. Postal Service, our own motto today might be "neither rain nor sleet nor snow will keep Chance and George from their appointed chemotherapy."  It’s been snowing here for 48 hours non-stop — none of this forecasted — and I worried about whether to trailer blind Chance and George into Missoula…

Alayne took blind Widget back to Helena today so Dr. Brenda Culver could do a re-check on Widget’s prosthetic eye.  Alayne took this first photo while Widget was waiting for the doctor to come.  She had her cone pressed right against the door, as if she were using it as a sonar device to detect…