Wehner Homestead
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Glad you are back! Sorry for your loss! It seems as though everyone here has dealt with a substantial loss in some way, shape, or form recently. 
Goatgurl - life goes on at someday farm
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OneFineAcre
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Sorry about your buck
RollingAcres
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Thanks for sharing @goatgurl that is one pretty doeling! Mine is more the same color throughout and it is indeed a silvery/frosted color, with white splotches/patches. Really pretty, especially in the sunlight. So sorry to hear that you lost Choco. I hear ya on having "words" with them stinky old bucks... RJ decided he needed to do a scur lift into my rib cage the other day while I was slightly bent over pouring pellets into their feed bowl. Normally he'll come up beside me or in front of me with his side presented vice facing with his head. I wasn't real happy about that and chased his stinky butt around the enclosure for 5 minutes 
I keep a couple of foot long sticks on the ground just outside the gate into their pen. Sometimes he decides he wants to push against my fingers and hands when I'm trying to open the carabiner clips to the gate to get in with hay/food/etc. A solid tap on the nose has taught him that when I pick up one of those sticks he moves well back from my reach at the gate.
I keep a couple of foot long sticks on the ground just outside the gate into their pen. Sometimes he decides he wants to push against my fingers and hands when I'm trying to open the carabiner clips to the gate to get in with hay/food/etc. A solid tap on the nose has taught him that when I pick up one of those sticks he moves well back from my reach at the gate.
Senile_Texas_Aggie
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Miss @goatgurl, it is so good to see you back on-line. I see you got about the same amount of snow that we did. Ours lasted a bit longer than 1 day. But I am glad we don't have to deal with it for weeks and months at a time the way Miss @RollingAcres and Mr. @Bruce do!
Bruce
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Time flies when you are having fun, soon it will be "no snow" season 
Still getting a lot of drifting of the snow that landed Sunday. Should have rain over night then back to snow. But no, our yard won't look a thing like @goatgurl's even after the rain. Most likely we'll have a ****ton of ice for the cars to TRY to drive on in the parking area. Might have to get out with the sand or some ashes tomorrow.
Still getting a lot of drifting of the snow that landed Sunday. Should have rain over night then back to snow. But no, our yard won't look a thing like @goatgurl's even after the rain. Most likely we'll have a ****ton of ice for the cars to TRY to drive on in the parking area. Might have to get out with the sand or some ashes tomorrow.
Hens and Roos
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sorry to hear
Bruce
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The cars were able to get out this morning no problem. I had to dump some sand on the big flat rock outside the porch door, sheet of ice. Above freezing, some rain, parking area turning into puddles. Gonna be ugly later. I'll toss some sand and ash after it starts to harden up presumably around 5 PM. Hopefully they will freeze into the ice as it forms and make a good scratchy surface.
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goatgurl
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@Bruce glad you were able to get sand out for later. I hate ice. Dstr#5 posted a picture on her FB page entitled "pratt fall" which showed bare foot prints, slide marks and then hand prints on her iced over deck a couple of days ago. she didn't know we got freezing rain over night. I laughed out loud. not nice but I did.
as some of you may remember I started to work a couple of months ago at a local little museum and have really enjoyed it. today an elderly lady came in to donate some articles that were her brothers. he had been killed in WWII, their parents had passed, he had no children and she brought his things to the museum for display so he wouldn't be forgotten. among the things were pictures of him as a child with his parents,in his uniform, and pictures of his father and mother receiving his silver star and purple heart medals from the post commander at Camp Chaffee. she also brought the telegram that his parents received to inform them that he was killed in action as well as the letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt thanking them for his service. touched my heart and made me sad for that family. his whole life in a little flat box.
youall be blessed and stay warm and dry.
as some of you may remember I started to work a couple of months ago at a local little museum and have really enjoyed it. today an elderly lady came in to donate some articles that were her brothers. he had been killed in WWII, their parents had passed, he had no children and she brought his things to the museum for display so he wouldn't be forgotten. among the things were pictures of him as a child with his parents,in his uniform, and pictures of his father and mother receiving his silver star and purple heart medals from the post commander at Camp Chaffee. she also brought the telegram that his parents received to inform them that he was killed in action as well as the letter from Franklin D. Roosevelt thanking them for his service. touched my heart and made me sad for that family. his whole life in a little flat box.
youall be blessed and stay warm and dry.
Bruce
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Must be Dstr#5 is a tough cookie, I don't go out barefoot when it is cold. Actually I don't go barefoot much at all.
Nice story about the museum. Maybe his life is in a little flat box but it can now be told to those who come to the museum.
Nice story about the museum. Maybe his life is in a little flat box but it can now be told to those who come to the museum.
