It’s morning.  It’s time to eat.  They’ve been waiting for hours.  HOURS!  They don’t get much, just a can of sweet feed to share between the four of them.  There’s plenty of grass for them out in the pasture.  I feed them that bit of grain to keep them tame and cooperative, always willing to [...]

I really had intended to sell the entire litter of pups.  I’d have kept every one of them if I listened to my heart instead of my head.  But that would be way more dogs than any farm needs.  Besides, they were great pups who each deserved their own farms and families to take care [...]

I know that a hurricane is a fearful thing – my grandparents spent their last decade or so in a beach community on the Florida panhandle.  They evacuated for hurricanes and rode out tropical storms in their little block house, and they described each ordeal in great detail, pictures included.  I have great sympathy for [...]