Category: Animals

Ranch Update

Post author By Ashton
Post date May 24, 2008
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Here’s another picture blog of how things are around the ranch:

Every year, for a couple weeks, our hill is covered in these yellow flowers just about the time I forget their name…
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ashanna

I did another load of Shale Rocks:
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This bird made a nest in our Hayshed:
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ashanna

Rosco and Penelope watch over our land:
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and play:
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A “California Red Garter Snake” decided to die in front of the Hay shed to scare the “bajebas” out of Anna:
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Our Duck and Chickens are GINORMOUS:
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We got some lawn ornaments that double as full time lawnmowers:
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ashanna

What? No adorable pictures of Mocha in a picture post? Impossible!

Ashanna

Animals Mocha Ranch Stone Wall

Life around AshAnna’s place has been crazy as of late. We’ve been doing so much, It would take too long to make a post for each item, so I’m going to throw them all together in picture format. I’ll try to do a little of narration to keep you on track.

First: Mocha. I’m sorry, she’s just so ridiculous I can’t help but take the pictures:
Mocha - King of the Jungle...
(This one’s so awesome I created it as a 1440×900 desktop too.)
Anna says "..."
Miracle Grow?
Depression Hurts

Ashton finally got his hair cut:
Time for Ashton's Semi-Annual hair cut

Ashanna created a flowerbed on “the dull side of the house”
Ashton makes yet another stack of rocks

Here’s the progress on the stone wall:
AshAnna's stone wall progress

We rented a post-pounder for the weekend.
Ash+Mocha on a John Deere

We woke up the other day to this:
We wake up to 3 horses all in a row

There were three of them in this next picture… but I was too slow.
Liana and Nora Drinking thirstily

Chickens:
And the red one was pecking at their toes

Enjoy,
AshAnna

Animals

Eagles in the Yard

So I was in the middle of “working hard” when I noticed some birds flying outside my window. To make a long story short; there were two Bald Eagles (one juvenile (all brown), one adult (white head and tail)) flying around and “playing” with two smaller birds which were probably either baby Eagles or hawks (most likely babies).

The adult Eagle dived into the ground just over our fence and caught what was probably a gopher/ground squirrel, and threw it at the juvenile! He grabbed it (off the ground) and flew off with it, which just happened to be right towards my window, so I took this picture:

AshAnna's Eagle

Enjoy,
AshAnna

Animals Mocha

Who Keeps Stealing My Pillow?

Post author By Ashton
Post date April 16, 2008
1 Comment on Who Keeps Stealing My Pillow?

steals Anna's Pillow
-AshAnna

Animals Ducks

Duck Update

These ducks are happy as clams, and we let them run around my office while I work. Mocha is surprisingly scared of the ducks, which is a good thing. We have named the Black Duck “Donald” (or “Don”/”Dona” if it’s a girl), and the other “Blue” (maybe “Bleu”).

ashanna's easter ducks

Enjoy,
AshAnna