one of my favorite part of the wwoof trip was all the dogs we encountered. they were seriously all so great. farm dogs are so balanced and healthy, i guess because they have such a strong sense of purpose (protect the farm... supervise farmers) and the dogs at golden ears are no exception.
i love these dogs more and more every day. when we first got here in the summer, there were up to 20 people living on the farm, wwoofers staying for a week and then moving on, and all kinds of visitors. keiko and ella seemed indifferent to us for the most part, and i was kind of bummed out. but now that we've been almost constantly for 6 months and we are down to about 4 people in the house, i really feel like we are tight "pack" full of respect and love. they are very different from each other, but both so well behaved.
in addition to these two, we are dog sitting a black lab named contessa. she's been driving us all a bit crazy with her neediness and her apparent lack of farm sense. but even she had a great day; she caught a mouse and we've got her into riding in the back of the truck.
we just took the dogs for a walk and came across a neighbour walking his three insane pomeranians. they were squeeeeeling like crazy and yipping and pulling all over their leashes. contessa ran over to investigate but after i called her back our three unleashed dogs pretty much just walked on by leaving them all in a small dog frenzy. i was proud of our dogs and kind of disturbed by the neighbour dogs. yikes.
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since i de-activated my facebook account i thought it might be nice to have somewhere else i put photos. i haven't organized this at all or figured out how to use it so much yet but i'm sure i will soon - a flickr account
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in the last few weeks out of different dumpsters in kamloops, we've found 50 boxes of pot of gold chocolate, tons of orange juice, a box of boxes of deeeelicious high quality cheesecake, a huge fruit picking ladder, a big aluminum ladder, brand new boots, a fire proof safe still in the box, and a bunch of other random stuff.
so... i guess i am basically suggesting that if you aren't already dumpster diving, maybe it's something to consider, especially if you are broke.
