I have always disliked mowing grass. It seems such an incredible waste of time and effort, especially when grass is the perfect food for so many animals.  Grass should be grazed, not mowed.  Back in Montana, we couldn't grow much of a lawn anyway around the house and dog cottages, so rough pasture grass was…

I've been working on our fall print newsletter, and we recently did the photo shoot for the photo of Alayne and me that goes on page 2 of each issue.  Earlier this year I posted the outtakes of the photo shoot for the spring/summer newsletter, so I thought you might enjoy seeing some from this…

I took this photo yesterday of blind Widget and three-legged Ella with Dr. Bryan Harnett, a board-certified internal medicine specialist at Vermont Veterinary Internal Medicine in Burlington.  While our small animal primary care vets are nearby, the specialists are in larger cities in southern New Hampshire or in Vermont.  Burlington, which is a two-hour drive…

I got this shot the other evening of Dexter pretending not to notice that he was sharing the basket bed with Little Miss Roo.  He kept his head buried the entire time, and wouldn't look at her or us.  As I mentioned in the original post on Roo, the Dachshunds were not exactly happy to…

Alayne got this photo of little Bailey down there at the base of the ramp leading up to the porch on the "people wing" of the house.  He had been sitting there for about 10 minutes or so, but whenever Alayne walked down to see if he wanted a "lift" up the ramp, he'd scamper…

Barbara Edwards, the quilt maker from Seeley Lake, Montana, asked our internal medicine specialist in Missoula, Dr. Dave Bostwick, to select the winning raffle ticket for us.  Barbara's husband Scott took the photo of Barbara with Dave at his clinic in Missoula.  The winner was Norma D. in Switzerland!  Norma has been a long-time supporter…

This past Saturday the second and last moving van arrived, and then yesterday the last flatbed trailer load arrived. In the photo above, that's Mike R. from New York, whose final load for us included our second tractor, a dog house, tractor implements, and two pallets of stall mats.  Here's a photo I took on…

I know this is a pretty boring photo of one of our trucks at a gas pump.  But there's a little more to it. Back in early April, when we first announced our impending move to New Hampshire, I mentioned that a major reason for relocating was to be closer to services so we could…

Apparently just the sight of a veterinarian can provide magical — and instant — healing powers.  Or so little Bailey would have us believe.  On Tuesday afternoon, Bailey began yiking when he moved his head in a certain direction.  Over the years, we've often had these kinds of episodic neck and back issues with the…

You can sign all the documents, record the deed, pay the first property taxes, and submit the change of address forms to the Post Office … but nothing seems to make a move finally and completely "official" until you change the license plates on your vehicles.  At least that's how it seems to us.  I…