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hoffywhf
Jul 21, 20156 min read
The Rest of the Story
It has been exactly one year since our pet cow Buster passed. I’m not usually much of one for specifically remembering certain dates,...
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hoffywhf
Jul 7, 20152 min read
Too Much Experience
We had the misfortune of dealing with a couple of water leaks right at Christmas. It was really a great way to spend the holiday week...
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hoffywhf
Jun 18, 20153 min read
Lost and Found
You might recall reading about Jason’s lost wallet on New Year’s Eve. He ripped the pocket off a pair of jeans when he was getting off...
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hoffywhf
Jun 16, 20154 min read
Not Just Horses
For the most part I consider myself a pretty independent person and generally view myself as a person who can handle whatever happens to...
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hoffywhf
Jun 4, 20153 min read
Five Years . . . Continued
In May we hit the five year mark of officially building out our new-at-the-time farm. I shared some before and after pictures of the...
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hoffywhf
Jun 2, 20153 min read
Hidden Costs
(post written by Jason) As I lay on my back under our big tractor changing fluids and filters a couple of days ago I had the thought that...
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hoffywhf
May 26, 20154 min read
Five Years
I found myself looking through the file labeled “farm building” pictures on my computer the other day. What a difference five years...
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hoffywhf
May 19, 20154 min read
Girl on Fire
Today I was the girl on fire, and unfortunately not in a Katniss Everdeen “I’m going to conquer the world” kind of way. For the person...
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hoffywhf
May 14, 20153 min read
Happy Anniversary
(post by Jason) On the face of it, today’s topic may not at first appear to have very much to do with horses or horse care. But I think...
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hoffywhf
May 5, 20152 min read
No Shooting Required
We’ve been busy with rather boring and uninteresting tasks the last couple of days. Since one of my least favorite jobs on the farm is...
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hoffywhf
Apr 28, 20154 min read
Halfway
Today was Part I of Vaccination Day. You will recall that last year we finally decided there was a better way to handle Vaccination Day. ...
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hoffywhf
Apr 23, 20152 min read
Composting
The horses gave up almost any pretenses of eating hay in the pasture about three weeks ago. As it always seems to happen every year, one...
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hoffywhf
Apr 21, 20153 min read
Dentist, Farrier, Fertilizer, Broken Window
Jason and I are continuing on with our spring them of doing all the things. In the last two days we’ve spent a day with the dentist, a...
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hoffywhf
Apr 16, 20153 min read
Probiotics and Prebiotics
(post by Jason) Probiotics and prebiotics. We hear these terms bandied about fairly regularly in the equine world. Too often I hear these...
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hoffywhf
Apr 9, 20152 min read
Still Sick
Jason and I have unwittingly been having a contest to see who can be the grouchiest and the most sick. Jason is winning by a landslide in...
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hoffywhf
Apr 7, 20152 min read
Sick
Jason and I have both succumbed to something over the last few days. We’re pretty sure I have had the flu and according to the doctor...
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hoffywhf
Apr 2, 20156 min read
Throwback Thursday
I was scrolling through some old posts looking for something I had written a few years ago when I stumbled upon one of our farm building...
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hoffywhf
Mar 31, 20152 min read
Spring’s Work
(post written by Jason) Melissa mentioned in a previous blog that we know it’s spring time when our workload moves from normal busy…..to...
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hoffywhf
Mar 26, 20152 min read
Christmas Fail Revisited
Some of you might recall our Christmas fail back in December. We decided we were going to do our best Clark Griswold impersonation and...
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hoffywhf
Mar 24, 20152 min read
Doing All The Things
I always know that spring has really arrived when Jason and I go from “normal” busy to warp-speed busy. We’ve been warp-speed busy the...
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