Hardly a Farm in Sight We had a marvelous trip to the North Shore of Lake Superior, where we met two faithful blog-readers, Chicken Mama and Mama Pea. Not only are they DELIGHTFUL women, but their spouses are great, and we enjoyed meeting all four of them. As a blogger I should have snapped many […]
Calling all Garrison Keillor Fans…. This isn’t a farm tale, but since the Back-Up Farmer (that’s me) has been SO preoccupied with this lately, this post is showing up here. (And I’m on the road a lot in September being Author Girl, so I don’t have a clue what’s going on here at the farm! […]
Bird Dog Molly is a Wire-Haired Pointing Griffon. This breed is considered a ‘versatile’ hunting dog, so can be trained to point, flush, retrieve on land, and retrieve in water. The one thing this sort of dog isn’t supposed to do is kill and eat a bird. Yes, well. Molly missed the memo on this […]