No time to post lately — I’ll try to write a bit more often. 

Erica and I went to Florida to spend Christmas with my family down there.  Kent joined us in time for the holiday after a challenging trip down.  We had the best weather we’ve ever had when down there at Christmas time.  70s/80s and sunny every day, most days involved some beach time.  It was very hard to come home although I did miss all of the animals alot.

Having both of us travel at the same time was a logistics challenge since we had to make sure all dogs, cats and equines had someone to care for them.  So Summer went to visit her co-owner/breeder,  Jazz and Cori joined Zamboni at my field trainer’s and Marley went to visit a friend’s boarding kennel.  We then had a housesitter here for the rest of the dogs, cats and equines.  She was great and Kent’s comment on arriving home (he came home 3 days ahead of us) was that everyone was very calm.

Since I’ve been back we’ve run the gamut of weather possibilities for Wisconsin in January and beyond…….snow and fog, snow and high winds (gust of 40 mph), high winds with cold temps under zero, a sunny 30 degree day, 54 degrees, dense fog for several days (and a 100 car pileup on the interstate near us), a thunderstorm with hail (drove to work in that one yesterday) and tornados about 40 miles away yesterday. 

If I could pick up the farm and move the whole thing along with all animals to a milder climate I would do it in a minute!