I got these photos yesterday of Widget "mining," which is what we call this particular daily habit of hers.  Please notice the white bobbing tail sticking up from underneath the bedding.  First, some background:  At our house in Montana, we finally put up a doggie gate to close off the kitchen and dining area so…

With the fall colors gone, a new color has arrived — and our view of the White Mountains is beginning to live up to the name!  Alayne got this shot a few days ago after a nice dusting of snow covered the tops of the nearby peaks.  Mount Washington, which we can see from the…

I've been working on the winter issue of our print newsletter this week and the last photo we needed was, of course, the one with Alayne and me with one of our animals for the "ranch letter."  We hadn't done a horse in a while, so we decided it was time to feature our beautiful…

This is something I don't think we've shown before … the hallway between the people wing (at the far end) and dog wing.  That's blind Madison and blind Helen lying on the tile floor.  On sunny days when the dog wing gets a bit warm from the solarium, the dogs will wander down the hallway…

This adorable little tyke arrived Sunday evening from a rescue group in Shreveport, Louisiana.  Rebecca Y. from Becky's Bridge had ended up with him after his owner had died, and she asked if we could take him.  He's about five years old, a terrier mix of some sort, and his name is .. yes, Fuzzy. …

Fall has always been Alayne's and my favorite season, and wow, did we ever move to the right place for autumn colors!  I took these photos on Saturday morning, looking east towards the pond and the White Mountains beyond.  (What a difference a couple of weeks makes — compare this to the photo I posted…

At our ranch in Montana, we used to get so many rainbows we called our little valley "Rainbow Flat."  Well, it looks like we moved to a spot with just as many rainbows!  Alayne took this photo out the back door the other day … a day when she counted a total of five different…

I'll be taking a blog break for the next week and will resume posting for Monday, September 13th.  For our readers in the U.S., we hope you enjoy your Labor Day holiday weekend!

Alayne got this shot yesterday morning through the window of our Chief Barn Cat, Smoke, sitting on a fencepost above the pond.  He had walked across the rail and then parked himself on top of the post to look for any small munchables in the tall grass below.  That's part of the old cedar split-rail…

I mentioned in the previous post how many of the dogs in the front yard have taken to "denning" under the ramps.  Blind Dusty, on the other hand, picked a totally different spot for his den — the base of the big fir at the other end of the front yard.  He loves this spot…