Lycklig Farm

Today I received the very last genetic test results we were waiting for, diversity results from UC Davis for Dolk. All five puppies are...

Celine’s Fabulous Five were born on November 26, 2024. They are now eating a variety of foods and getting ready for their new homes. At...

Dove had a gorgeous litter of seven puppies on December 1, 2022. The puppies were sired by Grayson, who is owned by Rebekah and Robert...

Last Friday, we took Celine and Prins to Bikini Beach, a short boat ride from Fairport Marina. Prins had an absolute blast. Celine...

We launched our pontoon yesterday for the first boating day of the 2022 summer season. Well, Tim actually launched our boat, after we...

High highs and low lows, that is the summary of human lives, isn't it? Those are the events we remember most vividly. Feeling our best...

I showed Prins all four days of the MV show cluster and he did wonderful for such a young dog, still developing both physically and...

On May 8, Celine and her seven littermates will be three years old! We started the party early, on Friday May 6. Andy and I took Celine...

There are four days left in the month of April. Looking back at pictures from 2021 and 2020, the trees and plants in our gardens are at...

We had a fun family walk yesterday on the farm. It's nice to have so much room for the dogs to run and play, right in our own backyard....

I was raised by my mother to believe that my heritage was half German via my father and Czech, "with a little French," via her side of...

Two days ago, I was enjoying some much needed relaxation time yesterday in the spare room. I was reading and did not want to get up. The...

After a whirlwind week, today was a day for mostly leisure. I spend a few hours cleaning and rearranging the large parrot room, but it...

Last weekend was unseasonably cold and windy. Last night, there were snow flurries after we returned from conformation class. Today is a...

This past weekend, a friend and I showed Dove and Prins at the Clinton Kennel Club's annual two day show in Maquoketa, Iowa. My dogs were...

The title of today's blog is a song on the album of the same name by Canadian singer-songwriter, Sarah MacLachlan. The chorus has the...

March has been a wild weather month for Iowa. We had nice weather, then tornadoes, then snow, and now the nice weather appears to be back...

One of our mature geese started laying eggs this year. We have two mature ganders and two geese that will be three years old this year....

Today is the first day of March, a month that I always associate as having more days of spring like weather over winter conditions. I...

Happy Birthday to our wonderful Dove, Ch Valkyrie's When Doves Cry, and her six littermates! Dove enjoyed a special breakfast, lots of...