Animals

Growing Kids Photos and Video

I was trying to get a side by side pic to compare the 2-month-old kids to the newborn kids but it was like dressing an octopus. I gave up and had David hold them.

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Help Us Name Our New Twin Kids

Sweetie (Alpine/ Nigerian miniature blue-eyed goat about 35 lbs) finally had her kids. These photos were taken with my cell phone. The kids are one day old and weigh about 3 lbs.
Cameo (Sweetie’s sister) had twins in January we names Jack and Jill. See Jack and Jill here.
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Our New Twin Kids

Jack and Jill were born to Cameo on January 19 or 20, 2010. They are miniature Nigerian Dwarf / Alpines. We found in the early morning around 6 am. I lost my camera the day before so I couldn’t get any good photos. But here are a few from my phone camera.
Christopher and [...]

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Tiny Teddy Bear Puppy Meets Great Pyrenees

Heidi (7 week old Shichon Teddy Bear puppy) went outside for the first time today (its been rainy and cold). She met Rocky our 100lb Great Pyrenees, the cats and the goats (she’ll met the horse another day). It’s really hard to video such a tiny dog.
Watch careful and you’ll see Heidi walk right under [...]

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Another Teddy Bear Shichon Puppy

We picked up Heidi yesterday. She is 7.5 weeks old. We are only babysitting until my parents come in November–I have had to repeat this 900 times this morning becasue my boys are in love with Heidi Ho. Watch the videos to see why.

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Teddy Bear Puppy Photos

Our Shichon puppies are growing so fast. They are six months old. Shichon (pronounced She Sean) Shichons are a Shih Tzu and Bichon Frise mix. The mix is also known as Teddy Bears, Zuchons, Shishchons, Shih Chons. There best known for melting into your chest.

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What a Difference Hair Makes!

Rocky our Great Pyrenees was shaved today. Amazing difference. He went from 98 pounds to 92 pounds.

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Our Two New Shichon Puppies

We went to choose our Shichon (pronounced She Sean) puppy from two different litters and ended up with one puppy from each litter. We named the white puppy Frosty but we need help naming the second puppy. Submit your dog names in the comments for a chance to win the prize listed below.

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Announcing Our New Kid

Our new Billy Kid arrived yesterday. He will breed with our twin girls and Lord willing, we should have babies in September! (Goat gestation is 5 months). . He is a tri-colored Nigerian Dwarf. He’s the color or dark chocolate, light chocolate and a marshmallow so we are calling him Cocoa. He is 4 [...]

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Washington Redskins Cat

Yes, we are Redskin fans. Even our animals are Redskin fans.

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Fruitcake Cookies

These are my favorite cookies. I make the first double batch for Thanksgiving and usually a triple batch in December. Chock full of fruit and nuts, they are chewy and crunchy.

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Barn Cats and House Cats

This is snowball. She has never been touched by a human until this week. She lived in our barn for about 6 months. It took months to get her on the porch and weeks to get her to our steps. Then she let us sit nearby and now she is inside. Tonight will be her [...]

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Sunrise View from Our TN Porch

Every morning Ronnie and I have coffee as we watch the sunrise from our front porch. We watch the horses, goats, dogs and cats. We also have 5 hummingbirds that visit daily.

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A Busy Week with Grandchildren

What a great week we had with children and grandchildren. Tammy, Neil, and the three grandchildren were here from Maryland for a week.

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Our New Twin Girls

We brought home our new twin girls yesterday.

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4H Youth Day at Our County Fair

This has been a super week. We’ve been going to the Agriculture Center every day for the Bedford County Fair.
Tuesday night the Horse Whisperer spoke. We learned a lot about connecting with horses and working with them instead of against them.
Yesterday afternoon was 4H Youth Day. The participants played games, ran relay races, [...]

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Neighbor’s Shooting = New Fence

Putting up a new mesh fence around our home works for me (at least for now) . We have 20 acres completely fenced, but because of the angry neighbor have to tighten the play area for the dogs and children.

Our neighbor doesn’t like the dogs barking. About a month ago he began shooting at [...]

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Driving and Riding Miniature Horses

Today we drove our miniature horses and saddle broke Bubbles. We drove all three minis (individually rotating in two carts). The photos show us in one area but we had a ball in the fields, pastures, and woods (over 40 acres) for several hours. Works for me!
It was a great family day. We walked, trotted, [...]

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Horse Gaits

Gaits are the different ways in which a horse can move, either naturally or as a result of specialized training. The “natural” gaits are walk, trot, canter, and gallop (in increasing order of speed)

The walk is a four-beat gait, the horse will always have one foot raised and the other three feet on the ground, [...]

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Miniature Horse Driving School

Two weeks ago my miniature horses started driving school. Today my sons and I began our training. The trainer, Dale, put his horse, Smurf (the black horse), with Comanche for awhile and then Toby. We rode like the wind! I had a blast. It was even better than riding for me.

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File Under Just Too Cute

Too cute mommy otter and baby pup. Suddenly my arms feel very empty. Off to find find a child to hug…

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Look What Daddy Brought Home!

We are all mourning the passing of our Great Pyrenees, Peppy (especially Precious, his sister) and then Daddy came home with Rocky!

Rocky was born on Christmas day.

Precious is thrilled with a new companion. Precious is 7 months. Rocky is 3 months.

The boys say they have the BEST Daddy who is on the world! I agree.

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Peppy Died This Morning

I wrote about Peppy’s passing here.

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Peppy is Very Sick

My heart is very heavy over my little Peppy. Peppy is one of two Great Pyrenees we got last year. Peppy is like a baby to me. Peppy has a liver disease.
Peppy is deaf so I have has to take special care of him. We knew something was wrong when we got him but we [...]

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Growing Puppies

Wordless Wednesday

Our Great Pyrenees puppies, Precious and Peppy, are now 4 months. Precious is the big one. Peppy is a deaf dwarf. He’s bigger than we thought he was going to be. It will be interesting to see how big he gets. The photos above show the growth between 5 weeks and 4 months (good [...]

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Puppies Meet the Horses

Miniature Horses Meet Great Pyrenees Puppies

Peppy and Mr. Bubbles

Peppy and Comanche

Peppy licking Mr. Bubbles

Precious and Mr. Bubbles

Precious, Peppy and Mr. Bubbles

Peppy is tired.

Too cute!

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Great Pryenees Puppies

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Miniature Horses on the Porch

I let my miniature horses’s out in my front yard today. (Don’t tell my hubby). I parked my car in the driveway to let them “mow” my yard. Smart right?

Next thing I know they are snooping around on the porch peeping in the windows.

Getting into my UPS delivery. Can’t wait to see the look on [...]