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~~~The Morning Ablution Dance~~~

~~~The Morning Ablution Dance~~~

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*******Please Subscribe To My Blog…..It Really Helps******* CLICK HERE***Maybe This Link Will Get You To My Tick Tock Channel*** …..my philosophy…..is that children and animals come first….. …..it’s not necessarily a benevolent philosophy…..it’s just what demands to happen….. If one of your children is in distress…..then the superhero in you manifests itself immediately….. …..same thing occurs here on the farm….. …..it’s not a conscious response….. It’s muscle-memory…..or maternal instinct…..or maybe just Pavlovian salivation…..whatever is in vogue these days….. …..when a…

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~~~I Love My Fireplace~~~

~~~I Love My Fireplace~~~

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The weather dropped from eighty degrees to thirty degrees in only twenty-four hours….. …..gotta love Florida….. …..apparently there was a frost….. …..I missed it…..(my feed guy told me)….. I am glad it’s finally cool enough to actually enjoy riding and not continually worrying that my horse is going to melt under me….. It seems like everyone has sprouted a winter coat overnight….. …..even Anja…..(again)….. …..who I have body-clipped once this fall already….. …..but she’s a Norwegian Wooly Mammoth Fjord Horse…

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This Old House

This Old House

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  I guess we put enough lights on the Christas tree this year… Well, maybe we put a few too many… …..my younger daughter and I had to go out to run some errands……. …..and when we came back and tried plugging in the tree…….everything stayed dark……. …..not just the tree…….but the ceiling fan…….and other wall plugs and lights in the kitchen too……. …..no fuses were flipped…….hmmmmmmmm… But this house has ALWAYS been unique……. …..that’s an understatement….. Here’s another example…

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Long John Silver

Long John Silver

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  Now—–here’s a story. Long John Silver entered on the scene at our home in 1983(?)……….or thereabouts… Long John is an Umbrella Cockatoo.  We really don’t know how old he is.   Years ago our veterinarian estimated that he was in his forties. Who knows…? But when I got Long John, that was prior to the importation laws.  Now only domestically-raised parrots can be sold in the United States.     I can only agree with that.      …

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