A lot of people have been writing to ask questions about the day here. I’ll answer here in this post, but you should also check out glencadia.com/inside/ to get an overview of the facilities and what we do every day. We have at least two and at busy times (holidays, summer) as many as five… Continue reading A Dog’s Day at Glencadia
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Dog Management
January 27, 2023: This post need major revision and I will re-write this quite a bit soon. Not every dog has the same experience at Glencadia. We want all of them to be outside, playing, having fun, and socializing as much as possible, but these activities do not all happen instantly for every dog… Continue reading Dog Management
Article about dog camps
https://www.exceptionalcanine.com/off_the_leash/send_your_dog_to_camp/index.php
Peepers Out late again
We have a pond here full of these little frogs people call peepers. They “peep” in the spring. The peeping can actually be quite loud. If you stand at the edge of the wetlands or the pond when they start in the evening, the noise can hurt your ears. In the winter, they bury themselves… Continue reading Peepers Out late again
Peepers out
Peepers out a record 12 days early BREAKING NEWS: Peepers out, global climate change in the back yard. We have a pond here full of these little frogs people call peepers. They “peep” in the spring. The peeping can actually be quite loud. If you stand at the edge of the wetlands or the pond… Continue reading Peepers out
Coyotes and Eagles
There were five bald eagles on a branch behind the barn last week. Five. Never heard of such a thing. A coyote came right up to Vern’s house across the creek and looked him in the eye for 10 seconds before running away. Also not common. The pond froze so thick but so clear I… Continue reading Coyotes and Eagles
Luxury is not quality
Our family of country mice went to the city and had a great city weekend. One thing that’s healthy about being in the city but not working is it reminds me what living in the city is like. I lived in New York from about 1990 to 2005 so it really isn’t a foreign place… Continue reading Luxury is not quality
The algorithm as god
It’s a strange world where an evolving commercial algorithm — a bunch of ideas, suppositions, experiments, results, and prejudices of a team of people over time codified into a system of action — becomes a god. It has power. It’s not listening to you. It’s fairly arbitrary. Sounds like a Greek god to me. In 2012, we… Continue reading The algorithm as god
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