Saltblock, you were with me when the goats were out to browse.
You stood staunchly at my hoofies when my FarmWife wasn't 'round.
You are stoic, you are patient, you are tan rather than pink,
You enrich me with your traces of selen…
Acme PTA
I am honored and excited to be the incoming secretary for Acme Elementary's Parent Teacher Association. Aside from vague memories of watching my mom eat brownies in a claustrophobic, windowless room in Piedmont, California, my PTA expe…
Menu suggestions
FarmWife is off to the grocer today, which leads me to wonder: if I, a mule who weighs roughly 800 pounds, survive on 1.5 flakes of grass hay per day, then shouldn't the whole human family (which weighs in at far less than 800 pounds,…
Somewhere over the rainbow
The humans told me they were going somewhere without me this weekend. They neglected to say they were going somewhere over the rainbow ! I am rather jealous, as I hear there are wonderful slippers and delicious straw men and oogly boogly …
My painting
I'm going to get my oil painting soon! The artist, Shaila of Orange Horse Art , emailed to say it's ready for me. We'll get together next week for the big reveal. It will take place here at Bent Barrow Farm, I think, as she rath…
Sister Appreciation Day
My youngest human, Robin, decided that all this talk of Mothers (May) and Fathers (June) justified the establishment of a new holiday: Sister Appreciation Day, which she says can be held weekly, at least. Yesterday, May 25 2012, was the fi…
Mowing
FarmWife and FarmHusband currently maintain their lawn with one of these:
They plan, in the short term, to start using one of these:
And, in the long term, to get one of these:
I recommend, as an alternative, using one of these:
Sounds real and imagined: a poem about tinnitus
My lone ear hears a symphony of two mules, trains, and rain. The best is yet to come to me, Bob Dylan once explained. But here I dwell in paradise Beside my closest friend. Our one flat acre, fruitful, lush, He'll tirelessly tend. We dwell wit…
Hairs
Let me assure you that I am not neglecting my blog on purpose—no, I am neglecting it as a byproduct of being a very sheddish sort of an animal this May. There are many hours in each day, true, but several of them need always be dedicated …
Biscotti
You may or may not be aware that our friends over at Save Your Ass Longear Rescue recently bailed baby Biscotti and his donkey dam Cookie from the Camelot Auction. Sadly, he's not well. Here's their assessment: Little Biscotti is ve…
Welcome to Western Washington
After a week of unseasonable sun we are now back to the phenomenal, awesome dreariness that characterizes our beautiful region: a deluge of rain which will serve, to look at the positive side, to keep our pastures green. FarmWife is being …
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