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The perfect tool for a rewarding job
If you had a wonderful, pliable lip like this you'd be grazing too. I must say, a lip like this is drawn to grass like a moth to the flame. Feeling about among the delicate and succulent fronds is the task for which it was born. There…
Gravel
Gravel: I've got some.
I won't mention that when the gravel truck came to dump it, I panicked in the adjacent paddock and spent a good two minutes careening madly with the terror of my horse-brained ancestors.
No, that will be a l…
Summary of birthdays
This week marks D's birthday (seven) and R's half-birthday (four and a half). M is almost 12. My mule is turning 17 next month. Clover and Paisley are almost two and almost ten. Missy will be nine and a half next week and her daugh…
Cruel unfairness
FarmWife and the goats conspired to make me the most jealous mule ever yesterday: first, FarmWife took wee Briony Bluebell into the yard for some gamboling about, some eating of delicious leaves, and some being photographed. She let Brion…
One way of thinking
Watching "The Wilderness Family" got me to thinking about what I want with life—no, I don't want to wrestle pet bears in retro bellbottoms, but I do want a more self-sufficient life. I do want a handmade house. I do want to g…
My look-a-like movie star
I am a reincarnation of a famous actor mule—seen here in this scene from The Wilderness Family (1975). He looks so much like me that FarmHusband did a double-take, FarmWife swooned, and the children yelled, "Fenway!" when they s…
Bicycle it is
FarmWife wanted to get D a little donkey with a cart and harness for her birthday. FarmHusband wanted to get D a new bicycle for her birthday. FarmWife said, "and we can get ponies for the other girls." FarmHusband said, "a…
The coolest necklace ever
FarmWife has THE COOLEST NECKLACE EVER. Period. And yes, I'm shouting. It's that cool. It's like the one at the link below, except it's ME! Could it get any better? http://www.etsy.com/listing/75483666/dressage-horse-glass-t…
A bit of clarification
I did not mean to imply by yesterday's photo caption that I intend ever to pull a buggy for FarmWife. Goodness, no! No, I'll have none of that. All I meant to suggest was that if her Volvo were to fall out of service she might enj…
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