Gladness Farm

07/02/2025

Lovely snow day crafts ☀️ 🌨️
Candis Mae McAllister-Morth the true artist 🌈💕

06/02/2025

Some scenes from the farm today on our THIRD snow day.. but today the dogs had a ton of fun in the snow and the sheep were even playing. The horses clearly hate it, and my chickens are still laying! Eggs come at a premium these days.

06/02/2025

06/02/2025

Obligatory dogs working in the snow shots 🪿🌨️

05/02/2025

I made this beautiful wreath with hand spun wool from a friend Candis Mae McAllister-Morth and the turquoise came from a very ugly necklace someone donated to me 😂. I'm just proud I finished something with a newish baby 💕

01/02/2025

Inextricable proof that dinosaurs are real 😂

30/01/2025

The majestic Turkey Lurkey is the morning light. So large and majestic.

29/01/2025

No accounting for breeding they always say, but when breeding a good stock dog there are some things that can't be accounted for. Dalria Dane comes from an imported line of dogs that my friend Tierney bred, and I have to say that this dog is more important to me than just as a herding dog. He has completely adjusted to a baby being around, and often when I am nursing is at my feet. He exceeds the standards of good breeding because he works well as a partner in the field and is incredibly biddable. Sometimes people breed for one area only but these dogs perform on every basis.

28/01/2025

Hey for educational purposes, did you guys know turkey 🦃 p**p is roughly the size of the state of Idaho and when stepped in smears absolutely everywhere? For convenience sake, it is also very dark and hard to see at night! Not only did I put my hand in some under where a turkey was perched, but also went skiing tonight! Yay for me!

27/01/2025

I found my first trial leash I ever bought in the barn. I remember when I bought it.. when I felt I was finally ready to deserve one. I ran Rosie on Novice course at Fido's. I remember it was brand new when I walked to the post and unhooked it from her matching pink collar and balled it up in my pocket gripping it nervously as I waited for the sheep to settle so I could send Rosie on her tiny outrun. I remember she did it, brought the sheep to me and then we penned them. Oh course she put too much pressure and the pen wasn't so easy. It was during COVID rules so I couldn't even touch the gate. I connected my clean new pink leash to her collar and walked off the field and felt like I won the world just because I got a score and wasn't dq'd and didn't fail completely. My prize was the knowledge that I did something id dreamed of doing my whole life up to that point for the first time ever. I found this leash yesterday in the dirt. No doubt I coopted it for a dog when we were shearing my sheep this fall. When I picked it up last night, covered in dirt and vaguely rusted, it brought me back to that moment. The moment this beautiful thing arrived in the mail wrapped in tissue and brass shining like a string of Christmas lights. It made me sad remembering this and then thinking about my carelessness in leaving something that represented my first step into a very special world that I dreamed of joining for so long, just languishing in the dirt. My hope is that by transcribing this for myself and posting it I will remember to cherish every small experience that represents stepping further into my dream of being a successful dog handler because I know I can do a novice run well, and a Ranch run too and I know I won't fail totally in a pro novice run either, but my goal is to do well and be proud of what my dog and I have done. I remember when that novice run meant the world to me, and the leash I took into battle to do it. The goal posts changed and I am no expert but I moved far enough into my journey and I got busy enough that I forgot to value how far I've come even though I'm not where I want to be yet.
Farm Diggity

26/01/2025

Special shout-out for crazy Daisy who is probably my most care free and fun dog I own. Daisy has some special skills. She is very fast and vaguely serpentine. If you put your head up close to her ears you can hear the ocean, she is a great alert dog, of the alerting is to other dogs who jumped out to herd without permission (this makes her our official nark) she cuddles really well, eats as much as a livestock guardian dog but never gains weight and as coordinated as a great Dane puppy 😂

23/01/2025

Silly Goose patrol here at the farm 😂 🪿

31/12/2024

I honestly forget how big Bear is because he's just this giant cuddly goober to me 😂 but when I came outside the other day and saw him next to my horse, I was kinda surprised to see he is roughly half the hight of my 15.1 hand mare. He's a big boy!

30/12/2024

Well we said goodbye to our two beautiful goats. Well Delilah the sweet beautiful lady and cinnamon the butt head. A nice guy from Olympia area wanted goats and I was originally only parting with Cinnamon, but in the chapter in my life, I think I've decided to move forward with sheep only. I have some suspicions about sheep injuries Cinnamon may have caused, and as much as I loved Delilah, being an only goat is not a good life for them, so they went to join their goat people on a different farm where I hope they are appreciated. There are apparently little girls there that are already in love with Delilah. I'm still very sad, mostly because I loved Delilah very much, but having a baby has helped me appreciate that I don't have the time for anything that is not essential. I'm happy for them and sad for me though.

16/12/2024

We had visitors in our sniff spot recently!