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WannaBe In the Country
http://www.wannabeinthecountry.blogspot.com
My husband and I moved from the suburbs to a small farmette in South Carolina, where we're trying to go back to nature. We have a horse, some goats, and some ducks, and we're trying to plant and sustain native plants.
Recent Posts
Rainy Veterans\' Day
It's a cold, rainy and windy Veterans' Day here in South Carolina. Everything's relative, isn't it? Cold here means that it'll be in the 50's today. The wind was howling, though, and it's been raining since yesterday, so the animals are pretty misera...
Equine Holiday
It was a gorgeous fall day here, so I thought I'd try riding Gus again. I hurt my back after buying the saddle so haven't done much, but I'm feeling better so it seemed like a good day. My very kind husband carried the saddle down to the pasture for ...
Big Teeth...and Snot
Can I use the word 'snot' in a blog? Can I show a picture of it?There's really no other way to describe what Irving, our new abandoned kitty, did to the wall by my computer desk. A friend who was visiting recently and insisted on taking this picture ...
Invaded by Communists
Well, they're not really Communists but that's a more exciting title than 'Bought Some Muscovy Ducks' today, isn't it?Here's how they came home. We went to the flea market looking for some more mallards, and saw these beautiful huge black-and-white d...
Fall Arrives in South Carolina
We had a beautiful, moody day here yesterday. It was a very cloudy day, and we got rain later on (poor Halloweeners!), but when the sun peeked out, we got these views.If you click on the picture to make it bigger, you can see the range of colors.A bl...
Red Clay Stains on Goats
I've noticed that our white Boer goats have red clay stains on their coats, but I never thought about how that happened. Today I caught Arlene applying the red clay. She found a little clay hill and first dug in it to loosen it up.Then she started ap...

