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Sorry I have not updated this for awhile. My desktop has "issues" and I had left my laptop at the ranch but I'm here now and I can get caught up over the next few days. The weather here has been beautiful today with clear skies and about 75 degrees with a light wind. This has made the dogs happy as they played in the fish pond for a few hours and then crashed in the kennel to rest up for doing at all over again tomorrow!! I have a new lap puppy named Audie Murphy and he is part Min Pin so he is even smaller than Mojo which make him just prefect for crashing on my lap when I watch TV and such. He really loves playing with the big dogs but we worry he may get hurt as he is so tiny but just try to stop him!!

Our neighbor brush hogged (mowed) most of our available open meadow and tree line to clean the place up and to help keep down the tall grass and weeds from being a fire danger. Today I found a new spring in the meadow which may help us to water the fruit trees we will be planting next week. We are looking at peaches, apples, sweet cherries, black cherries, pawapaws, necrerines(?), blackberries, blueberries, strawberries, gooseberries, and raspberries! We may not see any this year but we should be really set next year for fruit, jam, and canning them all. Gee, my own peach trees!!

It was really neat to see turtles in the fish pond today but I hope they are not eating all of my fish! But, it should be alright as I stocked the pond pretty good last fall and I hope to do so again this month or so. I will also check on getting a few rabbits and laying hens to add to the daily menu as I have tons of room to expand after I get used to raising just a few to start. Oh well, the generator is running so I am getting ready to fire up some chili and rest up for the rest of the day!  Cheers!

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Lots of changes and lots of updates as spring is coming early here in the Missouri Ozarks. Some of the changes came within the last week as I had a 500 gallon propane tank installed and two propanes heaters added to our two cabins so we now have heat!! I also was able to get my big Ford Excusion in the shop for some much needed TLC so I have wheels again! And with the weather being so nice (we hit 80 degrees a few days ago) and with the addition of a industrial 9000 Watt generator, I am now living full time in the main cabin. Right now I can look out my window and see bright red cardinals flying from tree to tree as the annual dance has started here and many other birds are starting to come through on the flyway. So we should see some really good sights ths year!!

The dogs have also been enjoying their time on the ranch as they run and chase each other around the big pond. And I've started to break out my fishing gear as I've seen some big shapes moving around in there. I mean, what more could a poerson wish for!!

I've also feeling alot better as I was very ill for a long time after New Year's and my doctor put me on oxygen 12 hours a day so things got interestingn there for awhile. but I feel great right now and my heart is feeling better than it has in months. But its a bear for my legs as they are shutting down fairly quickly now and I'm trying to do as much as possible before I'm back into the "chair".

But god it is so nice to be here and alive to enjoy it!!