I have been getting rumours of a 10 year old Veterinarian in Washington state. The young girl’s name is Courtney Oliver. She is reported to have a college degree but the only info I could find was from my local online TV news station KATU that states she has an online degree as a vet [...]
Entries from January 2008
January 28, 2008
Top 10 dog champions
The AKC keeps a running track record of the most winning dogs in competition. As of December of 2007 it looks like the Poodle has at least 3 of those positions. They are listed on the Dog News website here. While on the subject of dogs, did you hear the story about the dog that [...]
January 23, 2008
Another deep freeze and another broken pipe
The temperatures have been getting into the teens overnight and don’t get much higher than 35 during the day. We have had 2 pipes burst so far. One was a hose bib outlet just about 10 from the house. It was yesterday that one burst. That was an easy fix. The next one was earlier [...]
January 21, 2008
Freedom Hills and Extreme Home Makeover
If you live in the USA and love horses I am pretty sure you watched last Sunday’s airing of Extreme Home Makeover. This time they were in Maryland and did a home plus riding arena for the Freedom Hills riding therapy program. It was one of the few times that I can say the indoor riding [...]
January 17, 2008
Foal watching
Since my neighbors mare is pregnant and expecting her first foal in May I just had to go over and check out everything. Lisa, the neighbor, has everything all set to go, she is anxious to say the least. The mare is very special to her because the mare’s mom was Lisa’s first horse and [...]
January 16, 2008
A new horse next door come this spring
My neighbor came over to ask me all kinds of questions about horses giving birth. I have had 2 of our mares give birth in our barn a few years back and could answer most of her questions. I had the advantage of someone staying home when their due dates were close so I didn’t [...]
January 12, 2008
It’s winter and I’m in the baking mood
Shut in the house with cold weather outside makes me anxious to bake cakes, bread and cookies. There is nothing like coming into a house and smelling either bread or cookies being baked. My only problem is, I need to loose some weight so baking for myself is out. Baking for my pets is another [...]
January 7, 2008
Baby, it’s cold outside
Just like the song – brrrr it’s cold out there. We have been having on and off again show showers for the past few days. Much to my daughters disappointment none of it stayed more than a few hours. Not enough to go sledding on but just enough to make everything slippery. I love snow but [...]
