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It All Depends

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Sometimes when we go out west we see lots of different animals and birds. Sometimes it seems there are quite a few wild horses. Sometimes you wonder how they can so effectively hide in the forests. I’m not sure if it was the weather (there was a cold wind) or if it has something to do with all the traffic as it is hunting season but this week we saw few horses or critters of any kind. Seeing critters is a bonus but doesn’t define whether or not it was a great trip. There is something about a visit to the west country that fills up your soul.

The previous visit was filled with critters out enjoying a pleasant fall day. Just down the road from the ranch a beautiful hawk gave us a display of effortless flight.

The herd of wild horses that we encountered that day were taking advantage of the nice warm day to rest up and prepare for the winter that arrived today.

It is quite amazing how a little drive out in nature can be so refreshing and once again we were grateful for the beautiful country we get to live in.

Dabbler

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Dabbler according to Google AI:

A “dabbler” is a person who takes a casual, non-serious interest in a subject or activity, or a person who tries something for a short time without serious commitment. The term can sometimes have negative connotations, implying a lack of persistence or depth, but it can also describe someone who simply enjoys learning for the sake of enjoyment and doesn’t feel the need to become an expert. 

I may be a dabbler. I need to try a lot of things, enjoy them for awhile and then something else catches my eye and mind.

Well, except for a few things like family, work and horses.

Horses because that has been so since I can remember. I was born loving them. Work because I come from a time when it was a source of pride and accomplishment. And family because I may have the best darned family in the world!

Dabbler – my new label for myself. LOL

Farm Gardens

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It seems we old farm wives have trouble cutting back on the gardens. Come spring we forget there are no longer 6 kids, silage crews and hay crews to feed. The main garden was twice it’s current size not all that long ago. And then there were potatoes and corn in another garden down the field.

We have added raised beds and another greenhouse. This summer with the excessive heat those raised beds required a lot of regular watering. Dave had to haul a 500 gallon tank of water from one of the dugouts on an almost daily basis.

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Porcupine Quills and Family

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Once more our day didn’t even start out as planned. You get really used to that when you are farming and/or have a number of animals under your care. Today Cruiser got to take a trip in the trailer to the vet clinic. His curious nature got him a nose full of porcupine quills. If there were just a couple, we would just pull them out ourselves but with this many he needs a little anesthetic. So we called the vet, loaded him up and headed to town.

The quills got pulled out and we were back in the trailer and heading home in no time. I forgot to take a picture of his new nose ornaments but had a couple of pictures of Ed when he learned that the cute little tinkling thing running across the pasture should be avoided.

It was interesting when we returned home.

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Deer

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The deer haven’t been a problem for the past few years. A really hard year of deep snow and lots of cold weather a few years back decimated the population around here.

But I think it is recovering.

During the winter of 2014 when things got tough a nice little doe brought her fawn into our yard and lived here with us for the winter. She and the fawn became really quite trusting of us and didn’t even get up when we walked by them. They ate hay with the horses and practically killed the couple of small apple trees we had growing in the garden at the time. They do seem to love to eat the twigs of the apple trees.

The last few years we seldom saw deer in the yard.

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Reminders of A Different Time

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Some folks get rid of every old piece of equipment. Some folks not so much. We are somewhere in between.

We recently got one of those garbage bins that they come and empty so we could get rid of some of the “junk” around here. We have always had lots of outbuildings. Outbuildings on a ranch are a magnet for almost anything that could possibly be used in whole or in part in the future.

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