Blind Sophie discovered a new toy in the dog room the other day and spent a couple of hours zooming around the house showing it off to one and all. In fact, Sophie was in such constant motion that most of the photos Alayne took were a bit blurry because Sophie was moving so fast.…

When Alayne and I came in from chores on Friday morning we found blind Madison squashed inside a wire basket in the dog room. This just didn't look comfortable at all, as you can see. I've posted many times over the years about the odd choices some of our dogs make in their sleeping arrangements,…

Here’s another of the many “getting ready for winter” tasks we’ve been doing:  Last Saturday we moved the portable hen house (the “eggmobile”) from the spot up on the hill where it sat all summer back down to the farmstead. We did this so it would be close to power and water, and easier for…

First, just a quick update to report that we had no major impact from Sandy — no damage, and the power was out for only about 90 minutes. We had 1.5 inches of rain over 36 hours, quite a bit less than we get during some intense thunderstorms. So we are feeling very fortunate indeed.…

In light of Sandy, I'm going to take a blog break this week. At the moment it looks like we'll miss the worst of it here in northern New Hampshire, though Alayne and I still have some final preparedness chores to do today to make sure we're ready for whatever happens. Our thoughts are with…

The weather in Ovando, Montana this week: The weather in Lancaster, New Hampshire this week: Of course, posting this will just about guarantee that Tropical Storm Sandy ends up slamming into New England next week! Sorry, everybody!

There isn't much left to eat in the way of fresh grass now in the horse paddocks, so we've been taking the horses some hay during their daytime turn-outs. One day last week, though, they apparently had plenty to eat, because I found blind Rosie keeled over, sound asleep, on her pile of hay. Blind…

I looked out of the house the other day and saw our barn cat Smoke perched on the side of a stock tank, lapping at the water. Now, this is the kind of thing barn cats do that can give you a heart attack, because your immediate thought is, oh my, what if he falls…

Pistol magazine, a "custom culture lifestyle" publication from California, has a wonderful two-page feature story on the farm in their latest issue. (Note this magazine has nothing to do with firearms and its target audience is primarily the artistic community.) The story is based on an interview I did with the editor a few months…

Our fall print newsletter is now available online as a PDF. You can download it here. Yes, our little old lady Madison is on the cover of this issue, though as you'll read in her story, that photo was from a couple of years ago when I brought her with me on my first trip…