Homesteading on 2 Acres – a Girl and her Dogs
Homesteading on 2 acres in a tiny house; a girl, her dogs, and some vegan recipes
i was born on my mother’s birthday so we usually tried to spend it together when possible. The Summer after i bought the property she decided to come to me and this time she was bringing my grandmother. I was so excited to show them what i was building. I was excited to show them …
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One night i called the dogs in and only Cashew came. I knew immediately that something was wrong because Cashew was my wild child. She was the one who bucked the system. She was the one who stayed out all night and had me traipsing through the grass in the dark with a lantern, wearing …
When you work in healthcare you get sick a lot. Those are just the facts of life. When people are feverish or vomiting you can’t rush out of the room to avoid contagion because you are the one contracted to help those people. You just have to accept that at some point, it’s going to …
During the summer the insect activity around the porch light soared to unmatched levels. Every time i opened the door to let the dogs in or out insects came in. For the longest time i didn’t know what i had. I thought i just had random brown beetle-like things coming in the house, until one …
Once again Cashew needed another round of puppy vaccinations. So i loaded her into the car, took her to get poked full of needles, and there we sat once again in the car riding her reaction out as she shook and shiverred and whined.
One of my family members has a dog that we will call Gigi for the duration of this post. When i first brought Sili to meet Gigi years ago she was still afraid of everything and anything bigger than her. Gigi was bigger than her. So of course she growled and snarled at Gigi. But …
More fever, more tremors, more crying and whimpering. Her little body displayed such a severe reaction to those shots each time but i couldn’t get the heartworm preventative medicine unless she had them so again i wrapped her in a jacket, turned on soothing music, and held her in the car seat until it passed. …
My dogs don’t have squeaky hamburgers or plush squirrels. They don’t wrestle with rope toys or frisbees. They work with what they have, and that is 2 acres of free sticks. The trees drop them all the time, and if they finish chewing the ones that fell down during the last storm they just go …