First, I'd like to thank each and every one of you for your heartfelt comments and kind words about losing Patti. Alayne and I appreciated it a lot. Patti had been with us so long, and was such a part of us and our identity, that her loss was especially hard. But it meant so…

I took this photo of our blind horses grazing this morning — though there's really not much to graze any longer, and turn-out these days is mostly for exercise rather than nutrition.  As you can see, the leaves are all gone, the apples have (mostly) all dropped, and it's getting that "winter-ish" look out there.…

Pigeons. No, we're not taking in pigeons. We're trying to make them go away. At some point this past summer, a pair of pigeons arrived at the farm and promptly made their home in the cattle shed. A nest above one of the doors soon followed, and then two new little pigeons. Since pigeons poo…

Vicky L. from Connecticut, who adopted blind Lucy from us earlier this year, has been wonderful about sending us updates ever since on the little dog we've called her "Pink Princess." With all the pink beds, toys, leashes and collars Lucy is now endowed with, it seemed like an appropriate name. Well, Vicky just sent…

Alayne took these photos this afternoon, after walking by the laundry basket bed and seeing blind Goldie lying completely on top of Dexter, with only his head sticking out. He was one stuck Dachshund. This was an even tighter fit than it might appear in the photo above …here's a top-down view: At this point…

We were fortunate to only get a few inches of snow during the monster storm that wreaked such havoc across the Northeast last weekend. It quickly began to melt, but then would freeze overnight again. Yesterday morning after we let the dogs out, I noticed little Irene madly chomping on the crunchy snow. She'd put…

We were taking photos for the "farm letter" for our winter/holiday 2011 edition of the print newsletter yesterday, and as usual, I thought you would enjoy seeing the outtakes. Kate was behind the camera, her usual sweet, patient self, while the subjects (Alayne and me and blind Cash) were in front of the camera struggling…

This double rainbow on Saturday afternoon was so close — both ends of the inner rainbow were on our property and visible from the house — that if there had been a pot of gold, we would have seen it. Alas, no gold, but a beautiful sight nonetheless. In the photo above, you see two…

We had two wonderful little dogs arrive Sunday night, brought out to us by Gale Lang's TLC Pet Transport. This is one of them, Owen the Beagle, who came to us from North Carolina. (Sorry, you'll have to wait until Friday to find out who No. 2 was!) We were first contacted about Owen by…

Our first task every morning is to put all the dogs out, no small undertaking with thirty of them. To make it as efficient and quick as possible, I "double-up" on my loads with the smaller dogs. Alayne took these photos the other morning as I was carrying my charges outside. In the photo above,…