Fair-View Farm Blog

Happy New Year from our family to yours! Nate hosted a New Year's Eve party at his place and we had a few friends over to play games with us. Our folks came home at some point in the midst of the game playing.  I don't think any of us really intended to stay up til midnight, but time flies when you are having fun and so we only had to play few more rounds of "Scum" til the clocks showed midnight. Since my computer was still up and running when I got home, I figured I might as well be one of the first to wish you all a Happy New Year!  Welcome to 2020... 

Once upon a December.... There was lovely morning of whiteness...  These pictures doesn't really do it justice, but it was pretty out there. We've got snow- and plenty of it, which makes one of us (Matt) very happy, as he has been able to start training early this year. He is already getting a number of miles on his dogs. I haven't been out on the trail to take pictures of him yet this year- but here is a snapshot of him all hooked up and ready to take off.  His pups are growing, and are getting big. They love interaction with people and jump all over us whenever we venture into their pen. Speaking of snow, we got a lot of it early on- and it was a bit to heavy for our machine shed roof. One end of it now has a large skylight! Thankfully, Dad heard it crack and had time to move a few things out of the way before it gave way, some small things where damaged, but not any of our big equipment.  We've done some clean-up, and built support for...