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New Cat

17 November 2011

In the  spring I lost my faith­ful min­ion Trip. Early this sum­mer we added Peach to our menagerie. As much as I love the big orange doo­fus, he’s just not min­ion mate­r­ial. (Also, he prefers Jim’s com­pany to mine. Curr.) So… to rec­tify the lack of a min­ion for the Mag­pie Cen­ter for World Dom­i­na­tion. We have added a second cat. […]

Tagged as: izzy, peach

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Playing Catch Up.

17 November 2011

A new toy.     But before we can do any­thing about that… We have to fix this. Yeah, that’s pretty much half of the dash pulled out. Tomor­row night the other half comes out. All because I don’t like cold feet.   (Update to the update — Jim got it all done and but­toned back up on Sunday. […]

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New Glass

5 September 2010

We spent a lit­tle time down at the expen­sive toy store ear­lier this week­end. We came away with two new-to-us lenses. The first is rather dull — it’s a straight across replace­ment for the 70–300 that we already had. The new one has VR, Nikon’s image stabilization/vibration reduc­tion pack­age. The longer the lens the more […]

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Meanwhile… …Back at the Ranch

16 November 2009

I’ve been work­ing on updates and upgrades and all around tidy­ing to the web sties. It is unset­tling to know that of all the infor­ma­tion pro­vided on all my sites and blogs. The thing peo­ple most want to know about and to look at are: the chicken pic­tures… sigh.

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Dog Tidy

18 July 2009

It’s time for a dog tidy! Before: Dur­ing: After:

Tagged as: c-c, dogs, ivan. dee-dee

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Chicken Update

3 July 2009

Mizz Friz­zle still has all 10 chicks. They’re grow­ing big­ger and big­ger all the time. as you can see at least a few of them are also ‘afflicted’ with friz­zled feathers.

Tagged as: chickens

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Chicken Report

14 June 2009

Mz. Friz­zle and her brood of 10 are out and about every day now.

Tagged as: chickens

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Chicken Update

1 June 2009

The friz­zled banty hen has man­aged to hide out and hatch a hand­ful of chicks. Jim caught this one out for a snack. Hope­fully they will stay in the barn long enough to grow to be too big for the crows to terrorize.

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Funny Faces

11 May 2009

Just for amuse­ment value. This is what life looks like around here in the spring. Click on the photo to embiggen. Really, it’s worth it. I’ll wait… And here he is look­ing a lit­tle less goony.

Tagged as: alpacas, spring

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Barn Swallows are Back

21 April 2009

Each sum­mer we have sev­eral nests of barn swal­lows. Late last week I watched the first of the barn swal­lows fly across the pas­ture. This morn­ing I had the first evi­dence that house­keep­ing has started. One of the oldest/biggest nests is perched on top of the flood light over the feed room in the barn. As […]

Tagged as: barn swallows, nests

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