Alayne saw a shape moving inside a round bed in the living room yesterday afternoon, so she stopped and said, "Who's in there?"  Immediately there was the sound of a small animate object scurrying forward and then out popped little Daisy's head.  Then Daisy disappeared back into the bed.  Alayne went to get the camera,…

I took our new arrival, blind Charlie, to our vet clinic in Helena today for an eye exam and general medical check-up.  (I also had the studded snow tires taken off the truck and horse trailer.  Uh oh.)  In the photo above, our vet Dr. Brenda Culver is using the slit lamp to look into…

On Saturday morning Alayne and I turned Lena, Nikki and Cash out to pasture so we could muck out their corral with the tractor.  This was the first time they've been on pasture since last fall.  We don't typically turn them out until Memorial Day weekend at the end of May because the grass hasn't…

Back in early April we posted on the blog that Barbara Techel, author of Frankie the Walk n' Roll Dog — a book about her disabled Dachshund — was going to donate a portion of her book sales for April to the ranch.  Well, on Thursday evening, April 30, Barbara emailed to say she and…

One morning about a week ago, I was filling up the big rubber water bucket on the porch of Widget's House when blind Samantha wandered up for a drink.  She went not for the water in the bucket, but straight for the stream of water coming out of the faucet.  Samantha stuck her mouth right…

This handsome little Beagle arrived on Monday from Atlanta.  Charlie had been picked up as a stray by a small shelter in Cherokee County, Georgia.  No one claimed him.  A rescue group we have worked with a lot before, Atlanta Beagle Rescue, contacted us when they learned about the blind Beagle from the shelter.  We…

Last April, about mid-month, I took the studded snow tires off the trucks and promptly invited a winter storm … followed by another snowstorm 10 days later.  Well, this April I still have the studded snow tires on the trucks, but I foolishly took the snow blower off the tractor yesterday and stored it in…

Right after I finished taking the photos yesterday of the goat girls in their new condo, I walked over to Lena's Barn to pick up a tool I needed for a project.  It was light outside and relatively dark inside the barn, and I was about 10 feet down the aisle before my eyes adjusted…

Margaret's legions of fans have been clamoring for an update on our adorable goat, and truth be told, I have been delinquent in posting about her.  That's mostly because Margaret and her two sisters, Daisy and Scarlet, have spent most of the winter in a stall in Lena's Barn, and the weather hasn't permitted much…

Today our equine vet, Dr. Erin Taylor of Blue Mountain Veterinary Hospital in Missoula, came out for the spring vaccinations … except the weather had suddenly turned wintry this morning.  In the photo I took this afternoon, Alayne is holding blind Lena while Erin gives Lena her shots.  We always get a lot of help…