Category: Simple Country Pleasures

WELL, KAT Ballou… I don’t know…

KAT

CLEARLY ….KAT is my achilles heel…I am so very sorry folks…But NO STORK VISIT (this time) … Lots of words …lots of tears… for you all…no puppies to love…Some of you have been waiting for 8 months!  I understand the feeling of loss and what happened?  Well I was feeding her pretty good 🙂 and …

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Just Corn…

This beautiful corn is standing tall , strong, and healthy…Please remember the farmers in Iowa , and pray for them to be able to rebuild and recover their crop!  This field is at Buffalo Creek Dairy. The corn will become food for the milk cows, this winter… The corn field is like a church with …

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KAT…Stork…???

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… …

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KAT’s Pregnancy Timeline…

    KAT was bred on June 21, 22, 23, 2020  so according to my math depending on actual conception, Kat could be in the last part of week 7 or the beginning of week 8…I think from the way she looks and acts last part of week 7… Week Seven (Days 43-49) DEVELOPMENT OF …

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This Week…The Life of a Working English Shepherd…”J”

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!                                               …

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KAT’s Pregnancy Timeline…

I like to post this when I have a Mama To Be… We are on Day 21 …so yes we are doing catch up!  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 CHANGES IN KAT Possible …

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That CORN!!!

     

A Feeling of Wonderious Amazing Joy…

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 …

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Softness…and wonderful scents…sounds of the farm…

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 …

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Laughter comes to easy… Rainy Day Fun…

  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 …

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