Daisy & The Peepers

Daisy sits and watches them for hours. She's very gentle and sniffs them sometimes, but she doesn't seem interested in having chicken nuggets for lunch. I don't leave her unattended though. That might be too much temptation.

Lots and lots and lots of snow!!

I'm pausing my coverage of the box sled race, to show you a picture that I took this morning of Daisy - plowing her way through snow that is up over her back! We woke up to almost 30 inches of snow!!

Dreaming of summertime...

It's snowing again, so I needed a pick-me-up. This is one of my favorite photos from last summer. Our youngest, up on Kitch, headed off for an adventure with his trusty sidekick, Daisy!

Deep Powder

Daisy isn't about to let the snow slow her down! She plows right through it, but it's hard work and I get exhausted just watching her. ;-) For the most part, she stays on our snowshoe trails, where the snow is packed down. However, she finds it hard to resist all the yummy smells off the trail...

Happy Piggie!!

The whole family enjoys spending time with piggie! He's very sweet and loves attention. He especially enjoys having my husband scratch him. Daisy is cleaning his face. ;-) He's kinda filthy in this picture...Can you believe how big he is now?

Our Flowers in the Snow

Lily & Daisy enjoy a visit...

Daisy's New Friend

Daisy made a new friend this weekend! My niece and her family were amongst our overnight guests, but they didn't want to leave their yellow lab, Zoe, at home alone. We have plenty of space for the dogs to run, so we said that Zoe was more than welcome to join the party! (My brother's family also brought their dog, so that made 4 canine guests!) Daisy thought Zoe was just wonderful and they played and played for hours!! Here you can see Daisy's favorite trick. Maybe you've noticed that my dogs never wear their collars & tags? This is why! We ended up taking off Zoe's collar too because we didn't want Daisy to bury it in the deep snow. The thing that amazes me about these 2 dogs is that they are both Labrador Retrievers, but with such different bloodlines that they look completely opposite. Daisy is compact, short & round; Zoe is tall, long and lean. The disposition is the same though, happy-go-lucky and super-friendly. They are both great dogs!!

Get her Haley!

The dogs were having so much fun playing in all the fresh powdery snow yesterday!! That's Haley, our almost 12 year-old shepherd mix, chasing Daisy, the 1-1/2 year old, big black lab.

Naughty puppy!

That big, fluffy pom-pom was just too much to resist, so she snatched it right off his head!!

Beaver Pond

This past summer, a pair of beavers moved into our little pond. We now have a big pond! Unfortunately, it is located upstream of our driveway, which makes my husband nervous. If the beaver dam should break, it would wash away! The boys and I think they're really, really cool though and over the next few days I'll show you some of their building project...This shot is looking over the biggest portion of the pond. Daisy thinks it's great! You can just barely see the beaver's house in the background.

Lazy & Daisy

A few years ago, we had a foal during hunting season, so I purchased this foal sized blaze orange blanket. As a joke, and since it doesn't fit any of our real horses anymore, I put it on Lazy yesterday. Daisy was very curious and the boys got a big laugh out of it!

From my front door...

So sorry I missed posting yesterday - I've injured my back, so I'm confined mostly to the couch, with a little bit of walking around the house allowed, as I feel up to it. I was racking my brain, trying to think of something interesting to post, and came up with this idea - repeating my very first post! Compare the view out my front door today, with the view back in February...

Water Dog

This is our black lab, Daisy. She was the star of my very first post on this blog last winter! She's grown a whole lot since then, 90 pounds at her vet visit last week!! I had just filled this water tub for the chickens & geese, but she can never resist even the smallest amount of water, so she climbed right in! Today, she is the happiest dog in the world - all this flooding is awesome, as far as she's concerned...

Hey there!

Poor Tillie, the horse, really doesn't know what to think of Daisy, the lab puppy. Tillie was born on a farm where a couple of sneaky little dogs was always nipping at her heels. On principle, therefore, she hates dogs. Daisy would really like to be her friend and is always right in her face, which confuses Tillie. In the past, I have seen her pick Daisy right up by the scruff of her neck in frustration. Daisy, being a lab, didn't let that bother her and continues to try to befriend her. After all these months, I think that Tillie is figuring out that Daisy isn't a yappy, nippy dog and maybe they can be friends after all....