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A highland mist settles over the farm--before long, we couldn't see Mac and Ed at all |
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| Baby goat Monty giving Annie, our Jack Russell, a hard time--this was the first butt he ever tried |
Turnabout--the geese giving the goat babies a hard time-they love to pull their tails |
Maggie, Lucy the goat, and the llamas come calling at the Barnhouse--the llamas make great lawn mowers, though they do tend to nibble the Forsythia |
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Galen with Heidi--our enormous guardian dogs are ferocious with predators, but very loving with people and other dogs |
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| Frances and her new twins, April and May, just a few hours old |
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Summer sheep shearing, with the llamas looking on |
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Carding wool from our sheep so that it can be spun for weaving |
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| Brewster Rooster |
Mrs. Comet on her nest |
Splash, one of our Banty roosters |
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Getting ready to take out the buggy while Lucy the goat looks on |
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| Young Razzle Dazzle and Percy on the Barnhouse porch, hoping for a bottle of milk |
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A summer barnyard afternoon, with Lucy napping in the tractor bucket, a newly shorn Maisie, and Belle the ancient Redbone hound |
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| We love to make Midsummer Pickles with baby vegetables from the garden |
Tomatoes ripen while strings of Leather Britches dry on the Barnhouse porch--found only in the Smokies, Leather Britches are green beans threaded on strings and dried, then simmered in the winter for a hearty meal |
In the fall we gather wild grapes from our mountainside to make intensely wonderful jelly |
