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Amarillo Drover Puppies in May!

Drover did the job twice!   So Ms Amarillo should be in the ‘Puppy Way” 🙂 Due end of May! Pregnancy Timeline Week One DEVELOPMENT OF THE PUPPIES Fertilization occurs 2 cell embryos are in the oviduct The embryo is fairly resistant to external interference in development No flea or tick treatments… sigh just as the …

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AMARILLO AND DROVER!!!

Ah Yes !  Puppies….End of May!!!! Amarillo after much courting said yes! Twice! 🙂 These puppies should be good all round dogs. I expect them to be nice and even tempered like Amarillo and Drover. Out going and smart …They should work as needed.:) Both parents do work…Puppies should be tri colored and black and …

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Simple Country Pleasures…

Sundays! Pretty much says it all… Springtime…Grass greening up…Lambs in the field… Sunday Church service at Piney Grove UMC…Lunch…Friends…NASCAR on tv… Memories of Grandma and Grandpa…thinking of planting a garden and flowers! 🙂 Moving a rose bush or two…70’s next week!!!

Lambs, Sheep and Drover

This afternoon the sun came out and the dogs and I went to water the sheep. I sent Drover easy out and he brought the flock to me…He is getting pretty good!  Then we moved the sheep slowly all across the pasture with Drover doing nice down stays and not pushing on the sheep. I …

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Simple Country (DOG ) Pleasures…

Old dogs are the best!:) Young dogs are too! As I write this I smile…and yes a tear or two slides down my cheek… See I have an old dog (Montanna) asleep in the mud room on a soft special bed complete with her very own pillow!  I can hear her deep soft breathing and …

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Cold March Day…

While not raw by any means…Today was a typical cold windy March day! The kind that says “SPRING IS ON ITS WAY!” I heard frogs and crickets early this morning accompanied by  the soft bah of lambs and Ewes…The soft tinkle of the bells on the sheep and a Morning Doves soft song down in …

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Daffodils, Yellow Belles, and Herding…

The fourth Tuesday of each month is Friendly Neighborhood Club!  This a local group of mostly retired  folks that meet , have a program, and a meal once a month…at Piney Grove UMC Fellowship Hall , in Jackson Creek …(My Pea Patch)  yes one day I will tell you that one!:) We had a wonderful …

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Simple Country Pleasures…

Sunday morning church services at Piney Grove. With the friends, neighbors and family I grew up with. The preaching was good… It started to rain as the service was over and we all lingered in the vestibule and chatted …Some of the children of the children that rode horses with me several years ago were …

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Our Trip to New Bern!

Les and I went to New Bern to visit my cousins Terry and Beverly. (dog kin) 🙂 is what Terry says we are…That means distant cousins through my Grandma Delk! We started out early yesterday morning….Stopped at Biscuitville for a biscuit! Headed down to Snow Hill to visit with Marlene and Ms Dixie…They have one …

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A Day on the Farm…

Montanna had all hr hair cut off last week. So she spends most of her time in the mud room on her new warm soft comfy bed! Drover and the Girls hung out on the carport with the crazy Rooster! (I know that Roo thinks he is a dog!) And they LET HIM!!!! Les worked …

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