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March 25, 2010
Sunrise
Posted by Morning Bray under Donkeys, Farm, New Mexico | Tags: donkeys, Morning Bray Farm, New Mexico, sunrise |[14] Comments
March 18, 2010
Our sentinel
Posted by Morning Bray under Donkeys, Farm, Friends and Family | Tags: contest, donkey, Ellsworth, Morning Bray Farm, sentinel |[25] Comments
First, our contest winner, of course! Congratulations to C in WI, whose name was pulled out of Don’s hat. She’ll be seeing a Morning Bray Farm travel mug in her mailbox very soon.
C in WI Says:
March 16, 2010 at 5:39 amI love my morning whiskery kisses!
Thanks to all of you for celebrating with us. We had so much fun reading all of your captions!
Our sentinel
In addition to being the gentle soul that he is, Ellsworth has established himself as the sentinel here at Morning Bray.
He’s always the first to spot everything…
…and anything.
He’s steadfast and refuses to be distracted from his job.
So many words are appropriate to describe Ellsworth. To name just a few: loyal, constant, faithful. What an amazing boy. We absolutely love him.
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March 16, 2010
Celebrating a milestone
Posted by Morning Bray under Donkeys, Farm, Friends and Family | Tags: Bernard, celebration, contest, Don, Morning Bray Farm |[29] Comments
We’re celebrating our 50th post today – whoo-hoo! – and would love for you to join us. To commemorate our milestone, we thought we’d have a contest.
One lucky, randomly chosen winner will receive a Morning Bray Farm travel mug. To enter the contest, leave a comment on this post providing a caption for the above photo. The contest will close Wednesday at 7 p.m. (Mountain time) and we’ll announce the winner on Thursday.
By the way, we’re really having fun with this blog thing. Thanks to each and every one of you for visiting, making us feel welcome and of course, for all of your comments.
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March 12, 2010
The forecast called for a winter storm to pass through yesterday morning, but as usual, we weren’t expecting any part of it. When we woke up, we were surprised with a dusting of snow.
By midday, you would have never known.
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March 10, 2010
Spring cleaning help
Posted by Morning Bray under Donkeys, Farm, Plants and Flowers | Tags: Bernard, donkeys, Ellsworth, flower beds, March, pampas grass, perennials, spring cleaning, weeds |[6] Comments
The first weekend in March is generally set aside for cleaning out flower beds and welcoming back our perennials.
One of the things on our to-do list was cutting back the pampas grass. The flower spikes are excellent for drying, so I propped them on Don’s tractor while I finished cleaning up.
When I turned back around, Ellsworth had decided there was a better use for the flower spikes. Oh well.
Bernard and Ellsworth happily did their part in our spring cleaning efforts by working on weeds. Great job boys!
Farmgirl, see the yellow hay twine? You inspired me to make a temporary fence for the boys. For those familiar with the layout of our farm, it looks strange to see the boys in that “void” between the corral and the pasture. Carson, not to worry. They’re not out there without supervision. Promise.
We had a fence company out yesterday afternoon to give us an estimate on a pipe fence to connect the pasture and the corral. It will run the same path as the existing yellow twine. I’m really excited about this because it will give the boys the freedom to move between the corral and the pasture as they please.
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March 9, 2010
Sometimes it’s easy being green
Posted by Morning Bray under Donkeys, Farm, New Mexico | Tags: Diversion Dam, donkeys, green pastures, irrigation, Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District, Rio Grande |[7] Comments
There was very good news in last Wednesday’s Albuquerque Journal. The gates were opened at Diversion Dam and the Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District was moving water again. Oh yeah. We were excited.
In a nutshell, the conservancy district supplies irrigation water to about 62,000 acres of New Mexico’s farmland from Cochiti Dam to Socorro. From March through October, four small dams divert water from the Rio Grande into a network of 400 miles of irrigation canals, one of which runs right in front of Morning Bray Farm.
That means this:
Just yesterday turned into this:
And the boys can start dreaming about green pastures once again.
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March 1, 2010
Meeting the neighbors
Posted by Morning Bray under Donkeys, Farm | Tags: beating, Bernard, bucket, donkeys, Ellsworth, horses, neighbors, pasture, trail ride |[8] Comments
We love weekends and the opportunity to spend time together as a family. We were hanging out in the pasture yesterday afternoon when something caught Ellsworth’s attention. 
Someone’s coming.
It’s our very nice neighbors. Ellsworth is so excited, but Bernard decides to hang back with Mom.
We see our neighbors out riding quite often, but this is the first time we’ve really stopped to chat. After Mom proudly introduces us to them, they share a story.
“Bernard and Ellsworth are so cute! They’re such characters. One day as we were riding by, we saw Bernard pick up that five gallon bucket and start beating Ellsworth with it!”
Bernard!
We can totally see Ellsworth out on a Sunday afternoon trail ride with the big dogs horses one day soon.
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February 27, 2010
Saturday Parts – Mom’s trying to be artsy again
Posted by Morning Bray under Farm, Saturday Parts & Stuff | Tags: sky |[8] Comments
February 21, 2010
Sunday Cinema – Tulips and Turkey Talk
Posted by Morning Bray under Farm, Sunday Cinema | Tags: spring, tulips, turkeys |[3] Comments
We know spring is coming. How, you wonder?
First, the tulips.
Second, our neighbor turkeys are talkin’. The boys are doing their very best to impress the girls.
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February 18, 2010
She thinks she’s the boss of the barnyard
Posted by Morning Bray under Farm, Goats | Tags: barnyard, boss, goat, Meggie |[10] Comments
Mom asked us not to wait until Sunday Cinema to introduce you to Meggie because she didn’t want us introducing you to the devil on a Sunday morning.
That being said, sometimes things are better explained in movies. This is Meggie. She thinks she’s the boss of the barnyard. We love her, but she’s, well, umm… realllly bossy.
This behavior is probably what caused Mom to have a dream that Meggie was the devil. We wonder if Meggie’s head is going to spin all the way around one of these days.
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