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  1. CanuckBock

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

    This is how Nancy would have liked to be remembered as well. Miss you my dear friend. :hugs
  2. CanuckBock

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

    Season's greetings!
  3. CanuckBock

    The Old Folks Home

    And from you as well...winter solstice today and so happy to see the daylight going the other way now. 🙃 Found a source for some vintage brass chime "parts," so going to challenge myself to put together a bunch. Bought mine new at the local hardware store on sale for $1.99 if you can...
  4. CanuckBock

    The Old Folks Home

    Share with the Old Folks here...a Christmas Miracle from 2006. :old ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Makins – The Christmas Miracle By Tara Lee Higgins - January 5, 2007 So Alexander had taken time off work and traveled down to be at the ranch and celebrate Christmas Eve and Day with...
  5. CanuckBock

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

    Heel low: Time for a bit of reading...Makins our 1st ACD...Christmas; Makins, Alexander and Rick... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Makins – The Christmas Miracle By Tara Lee Higgins - January 5, 2007 So Alexander had taken time off work and traveled down to be at the ranch and...
  6. CanuckBock

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

    Heel low: Getting to be that time of the year!! Heading towards the shortest day of the year and then, more light each day, so YAH! In the meantime, enjoy that it is not past my bedtime to enjoy the Christmas light displays my spouse puts up. Silly Santa with puppies. And of course...
  7. CanuckBock

    The Old Folks Home

    Heel low: Very glad that Dingo was friendly...not all ACD's are like that. My spouse says there was a reason you biked by a farm as fast as able, ready to put your feet up when the farm dogs figured out you were going by... "DOG!!!!!!!!!" Ah man...sorry about Sid...Makins got whipworm which...
  8. CanuckBock

    The Old Folks Home

    Heel low: Kewl...yes, I am seven Cattle Dogs old; two rescues, three reds and two blues. I was historian, secretary, Breeders code of ethics chair, Elections chair, etc. for the Canadian ACD Club. Did up ACD profiles for Calgary Humane Society to help educate people about the real breed...
  9. CanuckBock

    The Old Folks Home

    Heel low: Beauty of a day here in Pear-A-Dice. Pleased as all get out to be ready for Christmas with the outdoor lights in full function. Yeh, made a batch of beef stew for the Hubby but never bothered to click any pics. I think he just finished the last of it a few days ago. Been...
  10. CanuckBock

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

    Heel low: Gorgeous day here in Pear-A-Dice. Quick warm up to plus ten so I can toss straw and top up the feed before it goes back down to -25C and makes squeaky snows. Spouse bought me a lovely bulb to grow out inside. Bird yard is dusted up with some decent whiteness. Certainly not...
  11. CanuckBock

    The Old Folks Home

    Heel low: Balmy -14C (7F) tonight...read the local rag and they showed some photos of the Parade of Lights, said it was 25 years old now. Took me back down Memory Lane because twenty five years ago, my son, myself, Stoggar, Makins, and puppy HyBlade all were there leading the very 1st Western...
  12. CanuckBock

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

    Heel low: Having way too much fun...explains why time must be flying!! Spouse bought a copy of the local newspaper today and I got to travel down memory lane to 25 years ago. The very 1st Parade of Lights (in all of Western Canada too) was held and what I remember, man alive it felt...
  13. CanuckBock

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

    Heel low: A few thoughts about prices on dead birds...I quite expect to pay 1/4 this amount for 20 pounds, now it has gone from $75 for a Thanksgiving timed butterball (nfi) to $100 for the upcoming Christmas season. Well I suppose I should not be surprised as I see the Good Shepherd selling...
  14. CanuckBock

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

    Heel low: Another item off the Bucket List. :p When we brought the 1st of six 1936 Chev Maple Leafs home...July 16, 2005, the famous Reynolds museum was putting on "Museum-Quality Vehicle Restoration Workshops" and I asked my spouse if he wanted to attend this once a year event. He said he'd...
  15. CanuckBock

    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
  16. CanuckBock

    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...
  17. CanuckBock

    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...
  18. CanuckBock

    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...
  19. CanuckBock

    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...
  20. CanuckBock

    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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