I mentioned in a blog post just a couple of weeks ago how our resident wild turkeys have made themselves at home on the farm, wandering everywhere, including right around the dog yards. Well, the other day Alayne looked out the window and saw a turkey inside the dog yard at the front of the…

Another beautiful rainbow over the autumn foliage, taken a about a week ago. Since then we hit peak colors, and while the weather has shifted to a rainy, cloudy pattern that has diminished some of their brilliance, they still look like this: And  a close-up of one of those beautiful stands of trees: (Click on…

We've joked in past years about the "barbarians at the gate," and yes, the gate is still up and the cast of characters — though changing a bit over time — is still very much there. The intent, as always, is to get to our meals. In the photo above, that's Dexter on the left,…

I took this photo the other evening in the dog room after we finished feeding the gang their dinner. Blind Madison had happily eaten her meal — her bowl is on the floor behind her — and then headed straight to the cot. By the way she draped herself across the bedding, Alayne and I…

I took this photo a couple of days ago of the blaze of fall foliage around the pond. We’re getting close to peak colors now but aren’t quite there yet. As I’ve mentioned before, fall has always been our favorite season, though we just wish the colors would last a lot longer! It’s always a…

Well, the wild turkeys who would flee months ago as soon as we opened a door have now made themselves entirely at home here. They wander around the farm at will, up the drive, past the dog yards, through the gardens, under the apple trees. The dogs don't even pay any attention to them any…

Well, it's not just Ella who gets to sleep in bed. Shirley L. in Oregon, who adopted wobbly Mink from us last year, just sent us this photo of the Schminkers with her husband James. Shirley says Mink sleeps between them at night, and she got out of bed on a recent morning to take…

  Jennifer M. in Napa, California just sent us this video of blind-and-deaf Gabe rolling in their yard. Jennifer and her husband Paul adopted Gabe from us back in 2010, soon after Gabe had finished a lengthy period of cancer treatment requiring both surgery and weeks of radiation therapy. (Jennifer and Paul later adopted three-legged…

— First, a quick "programming note": I will be taking a blog break next week in light of the Labor Day holiday and will resume posting the week of September 10th. — I had posted a couple of months ago about our potato crop. Well, last weekend I started harvesting them, and wow, do we…

It doesn't matter how many Kuranda dog cots we have in the yards — if there's a good size hole in the ground, the dogs prefer it. And it doesn't matter what their disability is … they'd rather curl up in a hole. This is blind and deaf Spinner, who spends a lot of time…