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    Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

    Heel low: All along the Rocky Mountain foothills...snow! Doggone & Chicken UP! Tara Lee Higgins Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm, Alberta, Canada
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    The Old Folks Home

    Heel low: Very relieved...we have gone into the month of November prior where POOFs of dust rise up with each step we make in the forest here. We need moisture and got some all along the foothills of the Rocky Mountains...YAH!! Postcard images! Not quite yet at my fav temperature of -10C...
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    Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

    Heel low: Some pretty spectacular lights yesterday eve...northern lights in PINK & RED...suppose to be very rare occurance. Got some clouds this evening, so none to be seen but one more night, tomorrow. Took Em in last week to have some mammary glands removed...they had been inspected by...
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    The Old Folks Home

    Heel low: Spectacular once in a lifetime light show yesterday...very appropriate for Remembrance Day, eh. Caused by nitrogen gases I read. Earlier before I went back to get my camera, there were red shades with green in the Northern lights (aurora borealis). I chose to sit and enjoy the...
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    The Old Folks Home

    Heel low: Ah yer sweet Al... :D Exotic pheasants are really kewl. Had Red Golden for about 25 years now...same for the Silvers. The new ones for us are Amhersts in 2023. Some new blood and the ability to sit back & see how tame we can make them. The trio of Silvers will sit on their...
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    The Old Folks Home

    Heel low: We live in Pear-A-Dice...everything about it suits us. After 25+ years on the WEsT Coast, I shiver just thinking of the humidity and abhor the bare ground. Way too many years of overcast drab 90 days of rains; we wore sunglasses for two years after moving here to central Alberta--as...
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    The Old Folks Home

    Heel low: Distracted outside...white season ended and right back into prep for it more long term is on the go still. Gack! The woven pieces I posted are my ancestors. The women grew the raw materials (flax and raised sheep) and spun the fibre to be crafted into items, woven with skills I...
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    The Old Folks Home

    Heel low: The relative I lost that hurt the most was my Aunt...what a woman and she helped me understand the culture my ancestors embraced. Having sheep, growing flax for linen, the farmy stuff. I miss her terribly as I use to get to visit with her daily via my internet posts. She was...
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    The Old Folks Home

    Heel low: Be right on over to help lower the number of "meal sized portions" that go in your freezer ... LOL ... happy to help save you some $ on utility costs, eh! :drool We go twice a year to a vintage vehicle sale swap meet in the nearest city. I always spy the items not so typical for...
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    The Old Folks Home

    Heel low: Braved the ordeal of packing the camera round (-6C Wed night...mere t-shirt weather!). I did take some clicks of the adult Sweetgrass turk a lurks. They truly need to stop lining up like this...looks to me like one of those Fair ground games where you get a prize if you use a...
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    The Old Folks Home

    Ah thanks...happy to entertain. Yeh, I'm seven Cattle Dogs old; two from the US, two rescues, and one replacement breeding. That makes the five there in 2009 in front of the Dolgo Crabapple tree...the current two are from NSW. Day of arrival, August 2015...famous "view from the shoe" or...
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    The Old Folks Home

    Heel low: Post a better photo of the turkeys!!! Please! And you of all persons "crawling about" should know, once the white hits, stopping long enough to collect photos of certain subjects often is a hit and miss game. LOL These all "used" to be our turkeys...but we have decided in our...
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    The Old Folks Home

    Heel low fellow OF's: Beauty of an afternoon coming on in at -1C (30F) with perfectly blue Albertan skies. Spoke with Lisa the other day (yeh, regarding Campines no less) and thought I'd drop by and see who was on here chatting. :caf Been MIA for awhile from the OFH but still make...
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    Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

    Heel low: Well sure enough, coupla weeks ahead of usual (halloween is more norm), we have switched modes for a time...green becomes white season. Christmas card purdy, eh! And the Snow Geese are migrating. They do not live in our area, merely passing thru. I look forward to seeing if I...
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    Jest Another Day in Pear-A-Dice - Higgins Rat Ranch Conservation Farm in Alberta

    Heel low: Truly living in Pear-A-Dice; what a view from 7K hill where our grader works. Brought it home to put the snow wing on and do a bit of regular maintenance...very much the busiest time of year for us. Little boys are not so little...this is them Sept 1st. Fifteen days later...
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