Month: August 2014

  • Take that, spam bots!

    Seriously, comment spam bots are super annoying.  For a brief moment I had this blog set up where people had to register to leave comments, but then my dad had trouble with that so I removed the requirement.  I’ve tried putting keywords in my black list which means they should automatically get moved to spam,…

  • The mystery of the heart in the freezer

    As many of you know, we raw feed the dogs and cats.  Last night I was rummaging through our freezer and pulled out a package of skinned rabbit legs, some beef kidneys, and a heart.  I took them upstairs to thaw and didn’t think any of it.  Later that night I was telling Jesse about…

  • Catch-up post Part 4 – The Whitaker Mohawk

    We have been cutting Ezra’s hair into a mohawk for quite some time now, and I think it really suits him.  Also, I don’t have to comb his hair, so, bonus.  Usually I just clipper Jesse’s hair when it starts to get shaggy, but this time we decided to give him a mohawk as well. …

  • Catch-up post Part 3 – Bountiful harvest

    Our peach trees have produced like crazy this year.  The earwigs love them, too, which is unfortunate and next year I will be more proactive in organic pesticides/preventatives, but all in all we have a crap ton of peaches.  I made peach fruit leather with one batch, and they turned out quite nicely if I…

  • Catch-up post Part 2 – Feeding raw

    After we got back from our big family vacation, we picked up the puppies from Jesse’s friend.  We had wanted to bring them on vacation, but they wouldn’t have been allowed inside the lodge and Jess’ friend has worked with puppies before and has a dog himself.  The puppies were well taken care of and…