Travelingjenny
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Category: critters
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We started off our week on the creek in Pennsylvania with some serious crawdad catching. Once again, Grace got really into it, and we discovered that we make an excellent critter-catching team. At one point we had fifteen of those critters in her bucket! I was so proud.
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Penny is settling in very nicely with us. She is happy and playful and follows us around. Grace and Tess argue about who gets to feed her, and they both shower her with love. We recently took her on her first hike, and she was a joy to bring along. She loves every dog and…
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Recently Tess has been taking an interest in the goings-on at the barn. It started with wanting to watch Grace groom the horse, which was followed by wanting to pet (and hug) the horse. Now, Tess wants to help Grace do the grooming. And on Friday, Tess put on a helmet and asked Grace's instructor if…
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This is sweet Penny, our "new" dog. She's a rescue from Louisiana, driven up to Maine with nine other dogs who had all been cared for by the same generous foster mother. Penny was a stray and had heartworms and ear mites when she was found. They said that she's a dachshund/terrier mix, but our…
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Friday is Grace's favorite day of the week. Why, you ask? Because it marks the beginning of the weekend? No, it's because Friday means horseback riding. And horseback riding means Lilly-T.
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Yes, the chickens have gone on strike. Apparently, watching one of their sisters be attacked and killed by a scary hawk really shook them up, even though they only have teeny, tiny brains. And living under the watchful eye of a big, black bear probably doesn't help, either.
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I spent most of this afternoon trying to keep the girls out of the living room. Because if they had gone in there and looked out the window, they would have seen the lifeless body (and about a million feathers) of one of our chickens. It had been killed by an osprey, which came back…
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