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Taking Life and Death Personally

Posted on July 31, 2015 by John

Number 248 comes to me. She noses my leg. I’m fussing with yet another ram lamb who stumbles and falls and is far too wet in her bottom fleece. I’m putting mineral in the feeders and watching if this ram … Continue reading →

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Handling the Primal

Posted on December 5, 2014 by John

“I want to hold her,” Connie pleaded with me.   She rolled up her shirt and undershirt and took puppy Number One from me. An hour or so before I had called to Connie, “We’re losing her.”       Tiny, … Continue reading →

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Surviving Winter

Posted on March 13, 2014 by John

            This morning, March 12, 2014,  we awoke to a one-inch covering of snow and a temperature of about 25 degrees. The wind chill probably brought it down to about zero.             Not bad. We pray it may be one of … Continue reading →

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