Sep 01
This evening the dogs and I went in search…of a lamb, and a rock… Good news …No lost lamb! Good news I Found …the perfect rock for the Shepherd’s Cottage bottom step at the back porch! So, what do I mean by a step rock for the back porch? Years and years ago folk …
Aug 16
Well I have puppy homes that are wanting to know, friends, and I want to know! 🙂 KAT’s tummy is for sure expanding. She is hungry like all the time. Sweet to me and not so to my other three. Her tummy is like a small mellon and expanding daily. She is not miserable, yet… …
Jul 19
Journey or “J” as I affectionately call my Journey…has had a very busy week. First working on fences and gates…an Endless Job…and moving sheep everywhere. Then Tuesday Shearing 34 Maple Grove Farm sheep! …
Jun 11
As I write this I am in my swing on the carport…Journey is in the swing with me…and the new dog Sam (an Aussie) is becoming a temporary member of The Maple Grove Farm Cew. Some of you know I train working sheep dogs. Loose Eyed Upright dogs mostly…People bring a dog to me we …
Jun 04
the muzzle of my friend Tuff… the inside of Drover’s ears.. the hair between my dogs toes… rain on the new Spring leaves… fading light of a well spent day… Drover’s fur… lambs sweet faces… Horses anything horse that wonderful scent! Sheep! Horse Harness… fresh mowed hay… clover… honeysuckle… the calls of my sheep to …
May 29
I love the rain that my friend Spring brings…tis a soft rain, with big drops that can fall heavy but never hard against your skin (that is Winter’s Rain) The Spring rain can be cold especially in May when the sheep shearing rain comes…mainly the Spring rain is a cool soothing rain…sometimes accompanied by …
May 21
The whole world smelled fresh and new…washed clean with the earth’s own special detergent… As KAT and I walked out into the softly falling rain the sound of rain on leaves and the fast growing grass was music to my ears. It was such a fine evening that I walked down with KAT to the …
May 18
I experience the joys of bringing a new litter of precious English Shepherds into this world… From the moment of their first sip of Mama’s milk to the day they leave with their new forever families…knowing I have made great placements thru videos, visits to the farm, emails, phone calls and photos…What fun it is …
