Pets and the Farm 3 -The Chickens and the Sheep The farm was large by any standard, 300 acres, plus or minus. Just outside Boston, it was in Millis, a small “townies” type of town.  It was the poor cousin for every town around it.  The owners were a Boston family that had appreciated land, history and…

Charlie is home – Clarification – this is Charlie the dog, not Charlie the Goat, aka Charlie-lama.  Charlie-lama was originally Charlie the Goat, a transplant from NH, he was Shelley’s fathers goat.  Charlie the goat had the wisdom of the ages in him. But I digress. This is about Charlie the dog, a Border Collie, rescued from Buddy Dog over…

Apollo, the 1/2 Shepard – 1/2 Doberman dog, was a handsome, slightly dopey looking dog that came to the farm within weeks of my farm arrival.   He was fairly large, barked when ever a car pulled in and did his job well. There are many, many, great Apollo stories, almost all having to do with rocks, wood…

Animal stories will continue and evolve – there seem to be a lot of them.  We have Rambo and Shabbon and hundreds of chickens, more horses, more goats, a pig, a slaughter house, another slaughter house – lamb and hay and sheep.  The day Sam discovered we were a “Pozer” farm.   Embellishment is never really needed when it…

Demographics –  So few things are as important and under-utilized on a personal level as demographics.  There is big picture demographics, which you hear about when it comes from governments or institutions.  Only certain people hear that noise about youth, aging,  health care, investing or natural resources and can grasp it personally and globally.  They use it.  It is simply too big…

… Well, several dozers later, we made it 540 feet in and tied our selves into the old cart road.  We tried larger machines, smaller machines, a backhoe, a farm tractor etc.. The bigger the machine the bigger the mess.  The smaller machine, the more emasculated we were.  It was a no win, but highly…

Alstead Stories   1987 – 1992   Rip. She was 8 months pregnant; he was dragging her around New Hampshire looking at his next project. They found 50 acres on top of a mountain, the seller, Jesse Comstock had owned the land for 60 years.   What a name, he looked it, his property looked it, it fit perfectly. …

This was written back in the day  … a little sexist, could cut in reverse, (the male in charge, but I doubt it.)    In 2013 it is open to all sexual orientation and marriage types. The Skirt Theory  – A level of acceptance in ones personal (relationship) life  – you are no longer fully in charge of…

I have worked for, with and against the old guard.  They were all  ww2 era people who had all been shaped by the great depression, had been married to only one spouse, were tough on their children and were disciplined to a fault – This is the most recent of them. By far, it may be the most…

The Reservoir – In every community there is some type of open space, park, reservoir.   Growing up in West Hartford CT, we were fortunate to have them all.  West Hartford is one of those few places where small town feel exists, even as it provides all the services that any community could want.  Although the taxes … still worth…