Just a little reminder from the FACE foundation that October is Adopt-A-Shelter-Dog Month. If you’re thinking about adding a pet to your family, please consider visiting your local animal shelter. Thanks!! 🙂
Originally posted on Edwina's Episodes:
Today I am so excited as I will be conducting my first ever blog interview. as part of the Writing 101 course. I will be chatting with the lovely Tonya, or Fourth Generation Farmgirl, as many of you know her, and am thrilled that she has agreed to take part. Ever since I first…
I would like to express my thanks to everyone who has been so kind to ask about Maud. Â I really appreciate your interest and concern regarding her progress. Â Maud has been steadily making gains over the last few weeks. Â She hasn’t felt wonderful, partially due to her illness as well as the steroids, but she is better. Â She visited the […]
Originally posted on Morning Story and Dilbert:
This was the last litter of puppies we were going to allow our Cocker Spaniel to have. It had been a very long night for me. Precious, our only black cocker, was having a very difficult time with the delivery of her puppies. I laid on the floor beside her large four-foot square…
Many of you have been interested in our dog, Maud, and her recovery since she became ill a few weeks ago.  After being rushed to the emergency vet due to bleeding from her mouth, etc. and spending nearly a week at the vet clinic secondary to very, very low platelet levels and red blood cell count, she was diagnosed with immune-mediated […]
In our household, this is what we refer to as a “pookie face.” Â It usually results in not feeling well, needing extra attention, or both. Â As you can see, Maud is wearing such a face in this picture. Â While she made gains with her platelet count increasing from 17,000 to over 200,000 within her first week home, Maud’s platelet count […]
Just thought I’d share. This is a cause that’s dear to me. Thanks! 🙂
I haven’t heard a howl in over a week now, and I miss it. Â I wouldn’t have thought I’d say it, but I do. Â Most of the time, I’m busy saying, “TOO LOUD, Maud–SSHHH!” Maud is our 10-year-old, bluetick hound dog. Â She is quite a character: Â comical, loving, determined, sweet, uncouth, whimsical, loyal, charming….. and LOUD. Â Maud is a hound, […]
“Live on The Good Side, The Bright Side, The True Side Of Everything!” ~Christian D. Larson This sunflower is a volunteer in our garden. Â It sprang up right under the bird feeder which is filled with sunflower seeds. I’ve actually tried numerous times to grow sunflowers in my garden to no avail, but there was no stopping this little upstart. […]
Maud, our Bluetick hound, is quite a character and a connoisseur of rawhide bones. Â She’s also affectionately known as “The Bone Pest” at our house. Â This is chiefly because she likes to snarf her bone in 30 seconds and then plop herself down across from Dash, who’s attempting to enjoy his bone in peace. Â FAT CHANCE! Â Maud will usually lie […]
My name is Tonya, and I grew up on a 300-acre farm in rural Virginia that has been in my family for over 100 years. After graduating from college, receiving my master’s degree in speech and language pathology, and living and working in a small city for six years, I decided to return to the place of my childhood. Here, in this rural area, on this patch of green, where for four generations my family has farmed, gardened, and lived, I, too wanted to be a part of this continuity. As a fourth generation farmgirl, I have many interests that not only include, but also go beyond the basics of farming, gardening, sheep and chicken-keeping. It is all of this and more that I plan on sharing in this blog.
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