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Rescue: Training the Things We Take for Granted

Lethargy. Sweltering with a non-specific stickiness. Flies. More flies. Dilly-dallying. These are the wilting Dog Days of Summer, named for...
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A Lesson about Squeamishness and a Donkey.

Look, it's a selfie of me mucking last week. I like to get an early start in the summer. Over...
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Beyond the Fence Line.

I have a neighbor, a couple of properties to the north, who brings his cattle home to calve each spring....
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Dinnertime

Dinnertime sounds of peaceable chewing; a rhythm of family such as we are. Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. (WordPress Photo Challenge...
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A Cautionary Tale About Sleeping Around.

We heard about Arthur, who had reached that certain age in the life of a young goat, just as we...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Landscape

  "Our memory landscapes are made up of the very best and worst moments standing side by side, jerking our...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Seasons

There's nothing fresh about this winter season but that doesn't mean there isn't something hot, opinionated, and not all that...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Life Imitates Art

Life Imitates Art: Reclining Nude (Rubenesque) From the first cave paintings to the most contemporary work, artists across the spectrum...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Vibrant

We are facing a storm today. It's all white-white; white fog, white snow, white breath. Winter is that time the...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Weight(less)

  "In Chinese philosophy, yin and yang describes how opposite or contrary forces are actually complementary, interconnected, and interdependent in...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Circle

Cats curl in a circle more often this time of year. Eliminating extremities makes her nose warmer than mine, for...
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Auld Lang Syne: The Ghost Herd

I've mentioned it before; I still mourn Cochise, that black and white Pinto that Little Joe rode on Bonanza. It's...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Now

Like a skater on ice, strong and effortless.   Anna Blake, Infinity Farm (WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt...
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When Nothing Less than Havarti Will Do

I've been getting the stink eye from Preacher Man. It happens. He's a member of the Long and Low Club,...
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How the Barn Became a Church

Were you born in a barn? Not me, but I wish. I lived in the tiny asphalt-shingle house just south...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Eye Spy

  She sees more than you do, even when she isn't looking. Science says she has the ability to see...
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Weekly Photo Challenge: Transition

Transition Imposition.   Anna Blake, Infinity Farm. (WordPress Photo Challenge is a weekly prompt to share a photo–I enjoy twisting...
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