Tag: animals
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Apple butter with home grown apples
Made a big batch of spiced apple butter from one of the trees apples last night! One of the trees was dropping a lot of apples prematurely due to insect damage. I don’t use any insecticides on the acreage, and since I haven’t been here even a year, am still working on establishing other systems…
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Post-surgery bitey session with Ashe!
My hip is feeling good enough to ease into some bitey stuff with Ashe again! We are both a bit sloppy (I mean, neither of us do this for sport, we just do it at home for fun, so our technique isn’t super clean or how it’s “supposed to be” to begin with). Here in…
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Happy Re-Gotcha Day, Mico!
My darling girl is back home with me, on her gotcha day no less! @preciouscreature framed it as a re-gotcha day and I couldn’t think of a better way to put it. I miss Mico so much, and it’s so comforting to have her physically back with me, to be able to see her and…
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Chicken raising adventures!
This spring I chose to begin a new adventure – raising chickens! This was something I had been planning for years at this point, and I decided to take the deep dive! In late March, we picked up three little chicks – Eglantine, an easter egger, Indigo, a mystic onyx, and Juniper, a blue maran!…
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Using a whistle for recall in the woods
Aisling recalling off of chasing birds using our whistle! Using a whistle for our recall has been an essential tool for Aisling and I at our new place! There are tons of potential distractions, lots of space to freely run around, and some wildlife I really don’t want her to run into (such as black…
Dani Shapira 