Hope came rolling up our driveway in the form of a really big pickup truck on Monday.
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| Consty |
"That's what neighbors do," Randy said. It's the code of the country.
Saturday, March 18, 2017
Neighbor helps keep hope alive
By David Horst sandhill7@gmail.com
Hope came rolling up our driveway in the form of a really big pickup truck on Monday.
Our hay guy, neighbor Randy who cuts and bales our hay with his brothers in exchange for half the take, came to help us get Constellation to his feet after about 72 hours of the llama being down. We're not close friends. Really, our only relationship is the business connection of haymaking. But when we asked, he came.
"That's what neighbors do," Randy said. It's the code of the country.
Hope came rolling up our driveway in the form of a really big pickup truck on Monday.
"That's what neighbors do," Randy said. It's the code of the country.
Monday, March 13, 2017
Llama needs hope to remain faithful
By David Horst sandhill7@gmail.com
Today I was pretty convinced that Hope is just a city in Arkansas -- a sucker bet for people who can't see the reality in front of their noses.
I had seized onto hope on Friday, when our llama Constellatione had shown signs of improvement after 14 hours of not having the strength to stand up on his own. And the last place he had gone down was out in the pasture, in the wind.
Cobbling together a hay manger, a few hay bales, my compact tractor and a pontoon boat-sized tarp, I erected a quick wind break around him, but he had to walk on his own.
Our llama vet -- actually our llama vet's daughter -- discovered an infection caused by an abscess tooth. She was instructing her intern about how llamas can develop abscesses, "Like this one," she said, as she felt along the llama's jaw. She gave him a shot of antibiotic that she said could turn his situation around in 24 hours.
Today I was pretty convinced that Hope is just a city in Arkansas -- a sucker bet for people who can't see the reality in front of their noses.
I had seized onto hope on Friday, when our llama Constellatione had shown signs of improvement after 14 hours of not having the strength to stand up on his own. And the last place he had gone down was out in the pasture, in the wind.
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| Constellatione |
Our llama vet -- actually our llama vet's daughter -- discovered an infection caused by an abscess tooth. She was instructing her intern about how llamas can develop abscesses, "Like this one," she said, as she felt along the llama's jaw. She gave him a shot of antibiotic that she said could turn his situation around in 24 hours.
Thursday, February 2, 2017
John speaks loudly with few words
How do I describe my friend John?
He is unlike anyone else I know — a mountain man born to the wrong time and place, but comfortable at any time and in any place.
John Behnke is, above all, nonjudgmental. That’s a quality I value in a friend.
We met through a mutual friend and a mutual interest in kayaking. We’ve done more than a dozen multi-day trips together, including at least 10 wilderness paddle-camping trips to the Apostle Islands. If you can come through that kind of potential for getting on each other’s nerves, you’ve got yourself a friend.
Monday, December 5, 2016
Navarino offers big trees for a pair of sawbucks
By David Horst sandhill7@gmail.com
Our tree is live. It’s cut by us. It is large.
We've had big fat trees, tall conical trees and bigger, fatter trees.
We’ll travel 20 miles for a tree. We have hiked every inch of an 80-acre tree farm and then walked away empty-handed when none of the trees met our -- well, really her -- standards.This year we went to the wild side. Unshorn trees in a former tree farm in the Navarino Wildlife Area were going for $20. Any size. Any species. Sales benefit the Navarino Nature Center.
NAVARINO -- For us, getting a Christmas tree is always an adventure.
Our tree is live. It’s cut by us. It is large.
We've had big fat trees, tall conical trees and bigger, fatter trees.
We’ll travel 20 miles for a tree. We have hiked every inch of an 80-acre tree farm and then walked away empty-handed when none of the trees met our -- well, really her -- standards.This year we went to the wild side. Unshorn trees in a former tree farm in the Navarino Wildlife Area were going for $20. Any size. Any species. Sales benefit the Navarino Nature Center.
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