Five Acres with a View

Jack spent the weekend at a golfing resort in Hawaii on Kauai. This was the view from his window.

Smoke’s Image 1977-2005
Two weeks ago, I realized that a decision that we knew we would have to make about Smoke sooner or later was going to be sooner. Saturday, I watched him lurch down the hill to the barn and saw that his right knee, which had been bad for a long time, had given up functioning all together. Bute gave him a little relief through the weekend, and today his vet came out and put him down. Jack and a friend came to be with me while it happened.

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Sunset, several days ago.

As this headline from Techdirt suggests: When Sending Out Your Jammed Printer For Repair, First Remove Counterfeit Money.

10% chance of snow today. Hah!

When I first saw Hap, I thought the way his white blaze slides off his nose was rather silly, but I have become fond of it over the years. And it certainly makes it easy to pick him out from other tall mahogany bay Thoroughbreds.

My sister has some photos at her weblog, Caroline’s Journey, which may look strangely familiar to people who look at the photos on my weblog.

Jack took this photo on Saturday after a slight snow fall.

This little buck (seen behind the mesh of the fence) has been a frequent visitor to our horse field the past week or so.