http://www.gallagherfarm.com Tue, 18 Dec 2007 00:40:18 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You may be wondering why my website has seemingly gone dead. No recent blog posts, less frequent picture updates...etc. I thought I'd check in to reassure everyone that we are still alive. We had 3 busy weeks while we sold our old house, then we did a fundraiser for a ... http://www.gallagherfarm.com/powerless/305 Thomas turned 3 today. How can it be?? Mesmerized by the candles. Uh oh! Willy blew them out!! FUNNY! I don't know why everyone is cheering, but YAY! Mom THOUGHT she pushed the cake out of reach- SNITCH! YUMMY, frosting.... Mmmmmm this is good. I will have to keep my hand here to keep the ... http://www.gallagherfarm.com/happy-birthday-thomas/255 I thought I'd share with you what happens here on photo taking day. You might think getting cute puppy pictures is easy- especially since the invent of digital cameras, but- you are WRONG, so very wrong. I am going to share with you why. This afternoon, I am photographing Brussels puppies ... http://www.gallagherfarm.com/anatomy-of-a-puppy-photo/253 Well every year, we take the kids to their 4H Spring Poultry Show. Here they show their birds against other birds for breed conformation, they show their poultry knowledge in showmanship to a judge one on one, they have a judging contest against other kids in grading eggs, judging ready ... http://www.gallagherfarm.com/the-spring-poultry-show-2007/252 I haven't been able to write about this news on the blog yet because I have been too sad about it. Cookie, our Nigerian Dwarf goat died Sunday the 4th. She was pregnant and due to kid March 10th. Cookie had been sick and refusing food and we had taken ... http://www.gallagherfarm.com/cookie-our-nigerian-dwarf-goat/250 I now know why there is such a thing as a farmer's breakfast. I also know why when the medical community said eggs are causing cholesterol probelms, farmers ate their eggs anyway. I don't do half of what the typical farmer does. I only have a hobby farm here. But, ... http://www.gallagherfarm.com/a-farmers-breakfast/248 Well I don't really believe in luck but I don't know what else to call it..... Last year, we had 2 puppies born in two different litters with cleft palates, they soon died of course. Then, we had Maggie and Izzy successfully bred to our new male, Charlie, and neither ended ... http://www.gallagherfarm.com/run-of-bad-luck-here/247 Some of you know- and some don't- that we are trying to adopt a baby from Hong Kong. His name is "For." He is 18 months old, and he has Down Syndrome. For those that don't know, our youngest child, Thomas, also has Downs. Children with Downs are such a ... http://www.gallagherfarm.com/another-baby-on-the-farmof-the-human-sort-2/245 Well, Pebbles is now bred to Charlie. She is a beauty- those are going to be some gorgeous chocolate pups. Millie got x-rayed today. She isn't very big- she has just started to show. We wanted to make sure Charlie's boy's could swim after Maggie and Izzy not being pregnant ... http://www.gallagherfarm.com/updates-2/240 Well winter has finally come to Kansas- about 2 months late. The dogs don't even know WHAT this white stuff is! It sure was pretty this morning when nothing had been touched yet. Since we've missed out on a lot of it this year, I didn't mind shoveling too much ... http://www.gallagherfarm.com/winter-at-last/239