Heather Thomas Van Deren

When I moved to the country as a married adult, my small family bought our first farm. Oh, we already owned a few horses, & I was no stranger to country living, having grown up spending summers in the country with my grandparents, and also tending to my animals as a youngster living in rural Texas, such as chickens, ducks, rabbits, & a horse here and there. But after moving onto our own 50-acre spread, we quickly realized we needed equipment which we did not have. We neede

I have the dumbest dog. Really. And to top it off, she is the biggest glutton ever! We have a total of four dogs, & when it is feeding time we have to tie Little Bit to a tree or else she'll gulp down her food, then eat everyone else's too! Her gluttony has made her quite overweight, & people laugh when they find out her name is "Little Bit"! The funniest thing happened one day. At feeding time my daughter took Little Bit over by the tree to feed her, but failed to put h