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Pepper

Pepper

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Pepper is bewildered and sad….. Understandably so….. She misses Brave…it all happened so fast….. …..we miss him too….. He was quite a presence here on our little farm….. He was our big stallion…our cornerstone…our watch dog and sentinel….. He’d keep a vigilant eye on the road…he knew what was happening in our neighborhood at all times….. …..but he’s gone now….. And we’re trying to find our equilibrium….. …..in the meantime…we’re keeping an eye…

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Braveheart

Braveheart

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** **********Disclaimer***This Is A Farm Post***This Post Deals With Death…(again)********** This is one of those posts I didn’t want to write….. Brave died on Saturday….. It was sudden…and yet…it wasn’t….. His appetite had waned over the last year or so…and we didn’t know why….. We thought maybe he was depressed after Claire’s death….. …..but he had Pepper for company since December(?)….. We were treating him for ulcers with aloe vera gel and probiotics…they seemed…

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~Pepper Comes Home~

~Pepper Comes Home~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** Finally….. After such a long time….. I have a Hunt horse again….. I can’t tell you just how happy that makes me…I can’t stop grinning….. Mary Constance has been Hunting her for me…giving her experience…and mileage….. She told me that she even requested one of her lesson students to get on and off Pepper fifty times…in the clumsiest way possible….. …..the young lady dragged her foot over Pepper’s rump…poked her in the ribs…hung…

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~So Close~

~So Close~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** I was planning on picking up Pepper at Mary Constance’s and bringing her home….. Everything was so friggin’ close….. So close….. But…I just discovered that the pasture where I intended to keep Pepper…is now totally wet and holding water….. I went out yesterday to pull some last minute weeds (the less than desirable fennel and burrs)…and I sank….. Pepper is the Clydesdale mare who is coming here and who I plan to ride……..

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~~~Trooper’s On A Diet~~~

~~~Trooper’s On A Diet~~~

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** When we first got Trooper…he was skinny….. Actually he was a mess….. A good friend had found him and seen his condition and needed to find him a home….. …..so she called us….. We needed a buck at that point………….the timing was perfect….. Storm Trooper is a registered Saanen dairy goat…he had been a 4H or FFA (Future Farmers of America) project…but somewhere along the way…Trooper hit hard times….. When he arrived on…

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The Afternoon Loop

The Afternoon Loop

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* Preventing illness and injury is far better than dealing with the aftermath….. Over the years…I’ve tried to keep track of who needs what booster shots and/or medicines….. I’ve either done it by memory…or by season…then the wall calendar…then it was a floppy disk…then back to the RoloDex…now on to a SmartPhone….. But…not my SmartPhone…my older daughter’s…my phone is smarter than me…and I judge it for that…and I avoid it whenever & wherever possible……..

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~l’Odeur de Goat~

~l’Odeur de Goat~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* My younger daughter has daily chores and responsibilities….. In the morning…she feeds the geriatric turkey hen…the Mama rabbit…an assortment of French Black Copper Maran hens…and Brave….. Brave gets fed his breakfast bucket…high up in a pail that is clipped to an eye bolt in the trunk of a pine tree….. …..his bucket is placed up high for a reason…because he is a tall boy and reaching it is not a problem….. …..and because…

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Baby Goat~~Up-Date

Baby Goat~~Up-Date

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* I wanted you to know that the orphaned baby goats are doing well….. …..they are adjusting….. Even though Snickers had twins…and Fatty Patty had triplets…those five babies have adapted and are thriving….. Although…I think the adopted wet-nurses are not so happy….. I’m not even sure they ever officially volunteered for the job…it just kind of…happened….. After Snickers and Fatty Patty both passed…Cami had to be banished from the nursery stall….. Her two boys…

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~Brave Is Being Brave~

~Brave Is Being Brave~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* It’s an on-going worry….. I’m worried about Brave….. He lost his pasture buddy when we had to put Claire down….. Where it was the kindest thing for Claire…it left Brave totally alone….. He’s a sensitive horse…you think of stallions as being these big courageous steeds….. …..well…they are….. They are big…and they are courageous….. …..but courageous steeds also have feelings too….. Trooper is being a good friend…and is by Brave’s side most of the…

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Claire

Claire

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**********Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps********** **********Disclaimer—This Is A Farm Post—Graphic Images To Follow********** I would have posted this last week….. …..but honestly…I was just too sad….. …..Claire is gone….. It was not a surprise….. It was planned…… But that doesn’t make it any easier….. I hate having to make “those” decisions…it’s above my pay-grade….. When I brought Claire home from Alabama…(about five years ago)…I knew she wasn’t doing well….. And after being lectured by my large animal veterinarian…

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