Living here for more than 20 years, this spell of winter weather has been the most difficult we have encountered. Today we are finishing the “work week” with a few hours of welcome, unseasonable warmth, but we are braced for single digit cold again soon. “Work week” is a term that does not apply to […]

Eddy came to us from the Franklin County Shelter, at a year and a half old, having been returned to the shelter twice for “bolting”. He was born in the Ozarks, and whether he was purpose bred or not, is a mystery. When he was six weeks old, he and his siblings were being sold

Shovel, shovel, toil and trouble! This has been a difficult winter already. The snow fell all day Sunday and Sunday night, finishing with an official total of 12.7 inches. I measured a foot myself, but in the 20 years we have lived here, this is definitely the worst snow we have had. Oh, it is

Since before the New Year, there was snow forecast for today. Often, long range forecasts change, and this one only changed for the worse. Plans were upended , supplies were stocked in, and we waited, hoping it would not be as dire as predicted. Well, it’s here, and it’s bad enough. I am almost too

Hurtling along, here we are at 2025 already. December was milder than normal, and I had a chance to take some pictures on a walk with Eddy, just before the calendar turned over. The winter colors were surprising. First, there were varied colored horses… Then, into the woods… Eddy enjoyed being able to cross the