It has been exactly one year since our pet cow Buster passed. I’m not usually much of one for specifically remembering certain dates,...

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...

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...

For the most part I consider myself a pretty independent person and generally view myself as a person who can handle whatever happens to...

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...

(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...

I found myself looking through the file labeled “farm building” pictures on my computer the other day. What a difference five years...

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...

(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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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...

(post by Jason) Probiotics and prebiotics. We hear these terms bandied about fairly regularly in the equine world. Too often I hear these...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

Some of you might recall our Christmas fail back in December. We decided we were going to do our best Clark Griswold impersonation and...

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...