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  <pubDate>Tue, 24 Oct 2023 12:08:26 GMT</pubDate>
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  <description>I have no idea if anyone will read this, because I seldom post to Dreamwidth these days although I read here every day. A few weeks ago, &lt;span style=&apos;white-space: nowrap;&apos;&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/profile&apos;&gt;&lt;img src=&apos;https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png&apos; alt=&apos;[personal profile] &apos; width=&apos;17&apos; height=&apos;17&apos; style=&apos;vertical-align: text-bottom; border: 0; padding-right: 1px;&apos; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href=&apos;https://oursin.dreamwidth.org/&apos;&gt;&lt;b&gt;oursin&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/span&gt; gave me a Bluesky invite code. Bluesky is an invite only social media site. A fair number of well-known SF&amp;amp;F authors are posting there as the site formerly known as Twitter goes up in flames. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I gave my first invite code to Bluesky to my partner. I now have another Bluesky invite code. Send me direct mail if you would like it. Also, add a comment that you did so. If I send you the invite code, claim it within three days or I will offer it again.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Edit: Typo&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=threeringedmoon&amp;ditemid=806371&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2021 20:48:44 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Blue Blankie</title>
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  <description>&lt;img src=&quot;https://i2.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/20210215blueblankie_1200.jpg&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;333&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; font-family: &amp;quot;Noto Serif&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6842em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);&quot;&gt;During winter, Rion spends a lot of time wrapped in his blue blankie. Occasionally, I will be doing something and look down and see Rion standing quietly beside me. Sometimes that means he has to go out. And sometimes that means that Bandit has stolen the blue blankie or Rion&amp;rsquo;s crate and Rion is waiting for me to fix the situation.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;box-sizing: inherit; border: 0px; font-family: &amp;quot;Noto Serif&amp;quot;, serif; font-size: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 1.6842em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51);&quot;&gt;You may think, why not get Bandit his own blankie? However, Bandit is not interested in having his own blankie. If Bandit has his own blankie, he will try to steal Rion&amp;rsquo;s blankie and pile them together. Bandit also has his own crate but never goes in it during the day. He would much rather sleep in Rion&amp;rsquo;s crate.&lt;/p&gt;&amp;nbsp;https://www.stardel.com/fiveacres/archives/2021/02/15/blue-blankie/&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=threeringedmoon&amp;ditemid=805939&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2020 15:20:31 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Happy Holidays from Miss Piggy and the rest of us.</title>
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  <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2020 20:56:35 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Masks in the Monday Mail</title>
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  <description>&amp;nbsp;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/20200519_masks_in_mail_1200.jpg&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;375&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style=&quot;color: rgb(43, 43, 43); font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px; white-space: pre-wrap;&quot;&gt;One set of masks came from California and the other set came from Alaska. Both were made by members of our family: one set by my sister, and the other set by Jack&apos;s sister. We had to make a few adjustments to make them fit, and are very grateful to add them to our collection.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https://www.stardel.com/fiveacres/archives/2020/05/19/masks-in-the-monday-mail/&quot;&gt;www.stardel.com/fiveacres/archives/2020/05/19/masks-in-the-monday-mail/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br type=&quot;_moz&quot; /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://www.dreamwidth.org/tools/commentcount?user=threeringedmoon&amp;ditemid=805546&quot; width=&quot;30&quot; height=&quot;12&quot; alt=&quot;comment count unavailable&quot; style=&quot;vertical-align: middle;&quot;/&gt; comments</description>
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  <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2019 20:33:18 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Looking Back &amp;#8211; Childhood</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Finding the photo of my Grandmother&amp;#8217;s house made me decide to look for a reasonably current photo of the house I lived in between the ages of seven and sixteen. I couldn&amp;#8217;t find one on Google Maps, but Zillow had a recent listing of the address when I entered it. &lt;/p&gt;



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&lt;p&gt;I almost didn&amp;#8217;t believe it was the same house we lived in. There is a lot more landscaping, and the porch now has a rail and steps. The interior is a lot different as well since some internal walls have been taken down to open up the floor plan. It also now has a finished basement with a mother-in-law suite.&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p&gt;What I found most surprising is how much smaller the square footage was than I expected. I remember it as being so much larger than this, probably because we had moved into it from a tiny ranch house in Rockville, Maryland.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2019 22:49:34 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Looking Back</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;I happened to stumble across a photo that my sister took of the place my paternal grandmother lived. I spent many happy weekends there with her in my childhood. I married Jack in the backyard over forty years ago.&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;figure class=&quot;wp-block-image&quot;&gt;&lt;img src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/20190715_Grandmommys_house.jpg?resize=660%2C471&amp;amp;ssl=1&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; class=&quot;wp-image-7302&quot; srcset=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/20190715_Grandmommys_house.jpg?resize=1024%2C730&amp;amp;ssl=1 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/20190715_Grandmommys_house.jpg?resize=150%2C107&amp;amp;ssl=1 150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/20190715_Grandmommys_house.jpg?resize=500%2C357&amp;amp;ssl=1 500w, https://i0.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/20190715_Grandmommys_house.jpg?resize=768%2C548&amp;amp;ssl=1 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/20190715_Grandmommys_house.jpg?w=1200&amp;amp;ssl=1 1200w&quot; sizes=&quot;(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px&quot; data-recalc-dims=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;



&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#8217;t know if this is a replacement house or an extensive renovation. The windows match up to my memories but it was a small two bedroom ranch house when it was sold by her estate.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Sat, 08 Jun 2019 14:37:58 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Reading Corner</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;We have friends who wanted this gently-used power recliner to go to a good home and it arrived last night, courtesy of another friend with a pickup truck and a strong back. This replaces a chair that was perfectly comfortable until twenty-seven-pound Bandit joined me. He is just too heavy to be a lapdog without a recliner to help support his weight.&lt;/p&gt;



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  <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2019 21:28:20 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Blizzard March 2019</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;This is our front door, which is actually on a sheltered porch on the leeward side of the house. All of our windows are plastered with snow. I took this photo when we dragged the dogs out through the garage to do their business. They were not pleased and have decided to wait until the blizzard passes. The drifts make it impossible to tell how much snow has fallen.&lt;/p&gt;



&lt;p&gt;The National Guard has been called out to rescue 500 motorists who took to the roads despite being warned. The snow plows can&amp;#8217;t operate because of stuck vehicles. The local Interstate is closed from Colorado Springs to Denver. All flights have been cancelled and all school systems are closed.  There are multiple reports of accidents, downed power lines, and fallen trees, including some that have fallen on houses.&lt;/p&gt;



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  <pubDate>Sun, 23 Dec 2018 13:29:03 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Season&amp;#8217;s Greetings</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;We are happily celebrating our first Christmas in our new house.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Mon, 03 Dec 2018 23:11:08 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Jack Says Farewell</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;On Friday, Jack said farewell to his PT Cruiser. It was leaking oil and the garage said it needed to have its engine rebuilt. We decided it wasn&amp;#8217;t worth it so donated it to the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.hsppr.org/&quot;&gt;Pikes Peak Humane Society&lt;/a&gt;. It was probably my least favorite of all the vehicles we have owned but at least it was easy to find in the parking lot.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Sat, 20 Oct 2018 13:17:45 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Rion&amp;#8217;s Tenth Birthday</title>
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&lt;p&gt;According to his adoption records, Rion was born ten years ago on October 20 to a Miniature Schnauzer bitch in the Pikes Peak Humane Society foster program. He has had some health struggles over the years: the most severe of which is a seizure disorder, which developed when he was two. (Rion doesn&amp;#8217;t have gentle, stare-at-the-wall seizures. His seizures fling his body across the room.) Fortunately, his seizures are completely controlled by a wonderful drug called Zonisamide, and he bounces around an agility course like a much younger dog. Considering the statistics on dogs with idiopathic epilepsy every happy, healthy year feels like a win.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Mon, 27 Aug 2018 15:11:56 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>New House</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stardel.com/fiveacres/img_20180825_154104685_hdr/&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;alignnone size-medium wp-image-7246&quot; src=&quot;https://i2.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IMG_20180825_154104685_HDR.jpg?resize=500%2C375&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;375&quot; data-recalc-dims=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;On August 1st, we closed on our new house, which had been in the process of being built since the end of March. Two days later our furniture was delivered.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We are mostly moved in at this point and the house is quite livable. We still have items in storage at a friend&amp;#8217;s that we are working on getting placed in the house and garage, though a lot of the stuff will probably get donated to thrift stores. Downsizing from a 2300 square foot house with multiple outbuildings to a 1600 square foot with a three car garage is a challenge. We specifically did not have a basement built so everything has to go in the house or in the third garage.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;I love the floor plan. The kitchen, dining area, and great room are all open so there is a roomy feeling. The master bedroom suite is also quite roomy which is one of the reasons we chose this layout. Also contributing to the feeling of spaciousness is the nine-foot ceilings. The nine-foot ceilings allowed us to hang some suspended platforms in the garage which helps with storing little-used items like holiday decorations.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The house has a lot of accessibility options which we hope that we don&amp;#8217;t need for many years. I am not missing have steps at all, though.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;The first ten days were a challenge since we moved in before the fence was built. The dogs required walking four or five times a day. We also didn&amp;#8217;t get our refrigerator until we had been here for several days so we had to make due with ice chests.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Jack has the smallest of the three bedrooms for his office, and I have a slightly larger room for my craft room and office.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A few days ago I noticed a sign in front of a neighbor&amp;#8217;s house that said Private Residence as I left to run errands. When I returned home, the same sign was in front of our house. Since we are still in a construction zone, I assume the signs are there to let tradesmen know which houses are occupied.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Fri, 24 Aug 2018 17:33:51 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Water Garden</title>
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  <description>&lt;figure style=&quot;width: 500px&quot; class=&quot;wp-caption alignnone&quot;&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stardel.com/fiveacres/archives/2018/08/24/water-garden/20180820_denverbotanicalgardens/&quot; rel=&quot;attachment wp-att-7243&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;size-medium wp-image-7243&quot; src=&quot;https://i1.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180820_DenverBotanicalGardens.jpg?resize=500%2C375&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;500&quot; height=&quot;375&quot; srcset=&quot;https://i1.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180820_DenverBotanicalGardens.jpg?resize=500%2C375 500w, https://i1.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180820_DenverBotanicalGardens.jpg?resize=150%2C113 150w, https://i1.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180820_DenverBotanicalGardens.jpg?resize=768%2C576 768w, https://i1.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180820_DenverBotanicalGardens.jpg?resize=1024%2C768 1024w, https://i1.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/20180820_DenverBotanicalGardens.jpg?w=1200 1200w&quot; sizes=&quot;(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px&quot; data-recalc-dims=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;figcaption class=&quot;wp-caption-text&quot;&gt;Monday, a friend and I visited the &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.botanicgardens.org/&quot;&gt;Denver Botanic Gardens&lt;/a&gt;.  It was a very pleasant day, though a bit hazy due to high ozone levels.&lt;/figcaption&gt;&lt;/figure&gt;
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  <pubDate>Thu, 28 Jun 2018 19:32:40 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Don&amp;#8217;s Ragman &amp;#8211; 1985 &amp;#8211; 2018</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stardel.com/fiveacres/archives/2018/06/28/dons-ragman-1985-2018/20080322ragsinspringdetail01/&quot; rel=&quot;attachment wp-att-7236&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;alignnone size-full wp-image-7236&quot; src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20080322ragsinspringdetail01.jpg?resize=432%2C324&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;432&quot; height=&quot;324&quot; srcset=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20080322ragsinspringdetail01.jpg?w=432 432w, https://i0.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/20080322ragsinspringdetail01.jpg?resize=150%2C113 150w&quot; sizes=&quot;(max-width: 432px) 100vw, 432px&quot; data-recalc-dims=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This is one of my favorite photos of Rags, taken about ten years ago. When we left in May for a six-week road trip, he was in fair condition: not too bad for a thirty-three-year-old horse. A few weeks before we got back, the friend who was taking care of him said he was losing condition. Even worse, he was losing his appetite. When I got back, I realized he had lost at least a grade of condition. Jack and I decided it was time.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;A little while ago, his vet came out and agreed that he looked far worse than the last time she saw him. She said it probably cancer. She administered the injections, and he was gone in an instant.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We had Rags since he was an eight-year-old: over twenty-five years.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2018 19:37:05 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Snow Day</title>
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&lt;p&gt;This morning our personal weather station reported that it was -7F at the lowest temperature. When I took this photo around 11:00 am, it had risen to a balmy 20F. This has been a winter for wild temperature swings: on Sunday the high was 60F.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jan 2018 16:39:03 GMT</pubDate>
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  <pubDate>Wed, 13 Sep 2017 23:04:22 GMT</pubDate>
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&lt;p&gt;This summer, my sister visited us for a short time. Bandit appreciated having another person in his fan club.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Mon, 31 Jul 2017 11:18:36 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Groomed</title>
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&lt;p&gt;Bandit and Rion both went to the Bad Place on Saturday. Bandit&amp;#8217;s white areas are no longer dingy and Rion&amp;#8217;s coat is no longer a magnet for burrs and other debris.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Wed, 28 Jun 2017 17:00:33 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>First Daylily</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Usually, the first daylily that blooms is a little misshapen, but this one turned out well.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Mon, 22 May 2017 13:13:25 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Across the Road</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;Although we see them fairly frequently in another part of our valley, it is rare to see elk across the road from our house.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stardel.com/fiveacres/archives/2017/05/22/across-the-road/20170521elkacrosstheroad/&quot; rel=&quot;attachment wp-att-7102&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;alignnone size-medium wp-image-7102&quot; src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170521elkacrosstheroad-500x332.jpg?fit=500%2C332&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; srcset=&quot;https://i2.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170521elkacrosstheroad.jpg?resize=500%2C332 500w, https://i2.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170521elkacrosstheroad.jpg?resize=150%2C100 150w, https://i2.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170521elkacrosstheroad.jpg?resize=768%2C510 768w, https://i2.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170521elkacrosstheroad.jpg?w=879 879w&quot; sizes=&quot;(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px&quot; data-recalc-dims=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Fri, 19 May 2017 14:04:58 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Hummer in the Snow</title>
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  <description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stardel.com/fiveacres/archives/2017/05/19/hummer-in-the-snow/20170518hummer_1200/&quot; rel=&quot;attachment wp-att-7097&quot;&gt;&lt;img class=&quot;alignnone size-medium wp-image-7097&quot; src=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170518hummer_1200-500x333.jpg?fit=500%2C333&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; srcset=&quot;https://i0.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170518hummer_1200.jpg?resize=500%2C333 500w, https://i0.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170518hummer_1200.jpg?resize=150%2C100 150w, https://i0.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170518hummer_1200.jpg?resize=768%2C511 768w, https://i0.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170518hummer_1200.jpg?resize=1024%2C681 1024w, https://i0.wp.com/www.stardel.com/fiveacres/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/20170518hummer_1200.jpg?w=1200 1200w&quot; sizes=&quot;(max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px&quot; data-recalc-dims=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;During the spring snowstorms yesterday, the hummingbirds seemed particularly appreciative of our feeders.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2017 15:53:08 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>The End of an Era</title>
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&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.stardel.com/fiveacres/archives/2017/05/08/lily-1997-2017/&quot;&gt;With the decision to euthanize Lily Monday&lt;/a&gt;, we had to decide what to do about Rags, a thirty-two-year-old horse who is frail, has very few working teeth, and is suffering from Cushings disease.  Originally we decided to have the vet put him down as well, though that decision pretty much gutted us. We knew he would be incredibly stressed by being alone. However, my friend texted me telling me to bring him to her place. She has several other very old horses that she boards. Better yet, Rags lived there for several years before we set up the horse facilities here and knew her three remaining geldings, so he would have a ready-made herd. I told her that I would discuss Rags&amp;#8217; condition with the vet and make the decision then.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;After putting Lily down we discussed Rags&amp;#8217; condition with the vet. She was quite supportive, though suggested it might not be a kindness to try to get Rags through another Colorado winter.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Another friend dropped what he was doing to haul Rags to his new home. Although it seemed to take forever to work out the details, I led Rags into our friend&amp;#8217;s horse trailer a little after midday. He had been screaming for Lily since we put him back in the main horse field, ignoring food and water.  I was afraid he would colic from the stress.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Rags was quite cooperative while loading and rode quietly. (In fact, I knew the trailer was here because Rags does a little happy dance when he sees a trailer pull onto our property.) After a short ride, we installed Rags into the corral where he will live until we can supervise his reintroduction into the gelding herd. The other horses, in an adjacent field, nickered when they saw Rags. He has a small shelter and his own stock tank. He immediately started eating some hay.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This morning I checked my records and we first had horses here in November of 1996. Aside from a few week long gaps due to wildfire evacuations that&amp;#8217;s about twenty years.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;This morning I did some clean up around the barn before the next rain storm. I couldn&amp;#8217;t face doing so yesterday. I inventoried the remaining hay bales and drained the stock tank. My feelings resembled those when I cleaned out my mother&amp;#8217;s closets after she died.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Mon, 08 May 2017 16:34:26 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Lily 1997-2017</title>
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&lt;p&gt;Years ago, Lily was diagnosed with ulcers, which would cause colic like episodes. The episodes seemed to be coming more frequently as she grew older, despite daily medication. This morning she was down when I went out to let the horses into the south field to eat grass. She got up to go in the new field and lay down again. She went up and down continually for the next hour. Although she had been up for a while when the vet got here, Lily had a heart rate of sixty, indicating that she still in pain. We had already decided that we could not afford to treat another full blown attack, so we asked for her to be put down.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2017 13:23:19 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Unexpected</title>
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&lt;p&gt;This is Rion&amp;#8217;s crate. Both dogs have crates in the bedroom, but neither dog goes into Bandit&amp;#8217;s crate during the day. This is only the second time that I&amp;#8217;ve seen Rion and Bandit share a crate, and I was astonished that they stayed put long enough for me to take the photo. Usually, Rion forces Bandit out of the crate by staring until Bandit leaves, but I suppose that strategy didn&amp;#8217;t work yesterday.&lt;/p&gt;
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  <pubDate>Sat, 29 Apr 2017 16:59:44 GMT</pubDate>
  <title>Rooftop Snow</title>
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&lt;p&gt;We are currently getting some snow. Since it is wet and soggy, it is curling off the roof in this photo.&lt;/p&gt;
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