by admin | Feb 22, 2009 |
Buddy came to be a part of our life at the farm in fits and starts. He first was a day visitor to the farm accompanying his owner, one of many transitory workers who worked for us briefly and moved on. When Buddy’s owner was no longer needed, or was fired, he gathered his belongings and left, but left Buddy behind. You can see from the picture, Buddy is a purebred mongrel with hints of Boxer, and he obviously is the victim of a botched home made ear job. The ragged ears contributes to the somewhat ferocious look which belies the demeanor of an orphan looking for love where ever he can find it. In the early days, the occasional visitor would offer to...
by admin | Jan 20, 2009 |
Everyone within the sound of my voice in the past several months knows that the darling wife (DW) and I scratched a long term itch by taking a voyage from Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of Argentina through the Drake Passage to the mysterious and pristine continent of Antarctica. My descriptive language fails me, and I can only say that what we found exceeded any expectations we had. During the course of the cruise, in addition to setting foot on the seventh continent, we saw and learned about 2000 year old glaciers and the icebergs they spawn, four species of penguins, four species of seals, five species of whales, and fifteen species of birds (many...
