Wish they all could be California girls

This is Somerhill California, the foundation of all my current color lines - red, pearl, & chinchilla.
She is 6.5 years old, and still just as beautiful, and cranks out a 4 inch, pluckable coat every
4-5 months.  

Oh great - some new hosta eaters have arrived

The new fawns are starting to arrive.    We have a love/hate relationship going.  The deer love to eat our flowers, and we hate it.  LOL   I tell them they have 24 acres of brush, woodland plants, grasses and forbs to eat that we share willingly with them.  Couldn't they leave the 3 foot strip of flowers that surround the house alone? 

Look who stopped by

My latest chinchillas

Somerhill Teslintoo (Quicksilver x Teslin) is a chocolate chinchilla doe.   Somerhill Spook (Quicksilver x Fury) is a black chinchilla buck.  They are both nearly 3 months old now, and I have high hopes for them at shows this spring.  They will be my main entry for the national angora specialty show in April.

Merry Christmas!

Candlelit Heart

A Christmas Poem by Mary E. Linton

Somewhere across the winter world tonight

You will be hearing chimes that fill the air;

Christmas extends its all-enfolding light

Across the distance...something we can share.

You will be singing, just the same as I,

These familiar songs we know so well,

And you will see these same stars in your sky

And wish upon that brightest one that fell.

I shall remember you and trim my tree,

One shining star upon the topmost bough;

I will hang wreaths of faith that all may see --

Tonight I glimpse beyond the hear and now.

And all the time that we must be apart

I keep a candle in my heart.

Happiness is...

fresh stone on the driveway. 

Greenleaves Spitfire

Welcome home, Greenleaves Spitfire! She was first CJD in the MAC specialty for her first leg.