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Happy Independence Day
(from Jason) I celebrated my first American Independence Day several years ago in Boston. Melissa and I decided to skip the fireworks and...
hoffywhf
Jul 4, 20133 min read


New Slogans
As Jason and I find ourselves in what feels like an endless cycle of broken things I accidentally made a joke today. I was looking at our...
hoffywhf
Jul 2, 20133 min read


In Between Chores
(post by Jason) I’ve come to the conclusion that our lives here are Paradigm Farms are quite predictable at certain times of the day, and...
hoffywhf
Jun 25, 20132 min read


Laugh or Cry
Jason and I seem to be dealing with an endless list of broken things – tractors, equipment, vehicles, horses – you name it and we have a...
hoffywhf
Jun 20, 20132 min read


Rebuilding Fence
I mentioned in a post a couple of weeks ago that one of our ongoing projects is replacing all of the damaged fence boards at my parents’...
hoffywhf
Jun 13, 20132 min read


Light Reading
From time to time I check in on the “equine court” page on Rate My Horse Pro. I hadn’t looked at it in several months and happened to...
hoffywhf
Jun 6, 20134 min read


Close Encounter
I realize there are some people out there that like snakes. I am not one of them. As you have probably already guessed I had a close...
hoffywhf
May 30, 20132 min read


Things That Are Broken
We seem to be having one of those stretches where we break everything we touch. In a span of 24 hours we found ourselves with a broken...
hoffywhf
May 28, 20132 min read


Groundhog Week
At the risk of sounding like a broken record our main activities over the last couple of days have been body clipping and teeth floating....
hoffywhf
May 23, 20133 min read


The Damage They Do
Jason and I are continuing to set records that we don’t particularly want to own, namely ones that involve determining how many hours we...
hoffywhf
May 21, 20133 min read


Busy Busy
The best word to describe the last few days is busy. We had a farrier day which is always a busy day, and today we had a dental day. ...
hoffywhf
May 14, 20132 min read


Equipment Shopping
This past weekend was very wet. The skies opened up on Friday night and by Sunday we had accumulated nearly five inches of rain across...
hoffywhf
Apr 30, 20132 min read


Spring Jobs
Spring is always a nice time of year. Along with the fall season spring also tends to be a very busy time of year for us. All of a sudden...
hoffywhf
Apr 23, 20133 min read


More Fence Building
You might recall that we cleared some land in the fall to prepare it for another pasture. After the land was cleared Jason seeded it,...
hoffywhf
Apr 18, 20132 min read


Repaired Camera
Jason asked if he could have the camera for awhile today. I handed it to him thinking two things. My first thought was how nice it was of...
hoffywhf
Apr 16, 20132 min read


Mina on the Mend
Mina the fainting goat is on the mend. It has been a month since she somehow broke her right hind leg. She is officially out of her...
hoffywhf
Apr 14, 20132 min read


Vaccination Day
Wednesday was vaccination day and we are happy to have that day done and over with. The day itself is never that bad, but of course there...
hoffywhf
Apr 11, 20132 min read


Just a Small Problem
I mentioned in our last post that we had a lot going on this week. Of course this means that anything that can go wrong will go wrong,...
hoffywhf
Apr 9, 20134 min read


Spring on the Lam
After a mostly bearable winter (you have to admit I didn’t complain much) spring has certainly been kind of a hit or miss situation here...
hoffywhf
Apr 4, 20132 min read


Halter Tag
Some of the horses had halters on today as they were scheduled to see the farrier. Jason and I watched multiple games of halter tag,...
hoffywhf
Apr 2, 20131 min read
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