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If I were to start a farm, a couple of donkeys would definitely be in the mix. Pedro and Jesus could not be sweeter, love to hang out with people and definitely hold their own against the much larger Highland cattle they share the pasture with – they will use their back legs to kick whenever needed, so trouble doesn’t come around much, despite their small size.
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Probably done in by a vehicle passing through on this railroad bed – or maybe just by someone walking by.
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If memory serves, this was the first day the calves got to leave the barn, and they quickly learned about speed.
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Our friends SN and LL, and their dog Dusty Moe, lived here for a couple of years, long ago. They were remarkable hosts, magnanimous and funny, and probably could have made a million dollars running a bed and breakfast in another life. The place itself was small and rustic, with all the basic necessities, and a soul soothing, four season river out in the back yard. We’d pitch our tent on the riverbank, and be carried off to sleep in its lullabies. And sometimes, at 4 AM, waking and walking under the stars, it was easy to look up, and reach out – across the continents, and the centuries – to anyone who ever gazed into a night sky, or listened to the sound of flowing water.
11/28 update: SN tells me that “.. thanks to last summer’s hurricane the love shack is now laying in two pieces upside down on a big pile of rocks…” Well, I guess mostly it was a “soul soothing river”, although come to think of it … one early spring day, I looked up the river to see two kayakers working their way down – the winter runoff was at its peak, the volume of water huge – they were proceeding 20-30 feet at a time before taking shelter in eddies to figure out their next move. My first impression was “pretty crazy”, given the strength of the current and the huge rocks in the riverbed, but when I saw their discipline, I could only watch in admiration, and wave as they passed by.
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Lexy is one of three Haflingers that share the pastures with a number of other horses and a burro. It’s always nice to come around the corner and see where they’re all at and what they’re up to. Most of the time they’re grazing, sometimes at the fence waiting for the evening rations, occasionally just galloping around the fields, and, every once in awhile, someone will be on the ground kicking the air. In this shot, she seems to be in a peaceful state of relaxation (do horses meditate?); I think short of sleeping as we were just interacting a minute before.
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Zoe, a Shih Tzu- Lhasa mix, adopted us about 6 years ago, when we first saw her at the Connecticut Humane Society in Newington, CT. She’s smart as a whip, and incredibly affectionate and responsive to boot. Here she is checking out our back yard.
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Here she is on the Ravine Trail leading to the Selden Creek Overlook, off Joshua Town Road in Lyme.
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