Greenbriar Arrows Farm

05/29/2026

05/29/2026

Here are some more puppy pics - they are getting big - they are starting to follow 'Mommy' on her patrolling...so they have found mud and stickers and stuff to decorate their hair.

We plopped them in the pen with our dwarf goats - one is a natural...she found the shade and tall grass, plopped down and watched the goats. Others needed to be shown that - they wanted to play...a work in progress. The goats 'huffed and puffed' and stamped, and the dogs ignored them.

The pups are aware Texas is not panacea - the coyotes have been working the valley looking for fawns and late calves, and we have had raccoons come up out of the stream bottom for the chickens - the adult dogs have been triggering all night, and then all day against the buzzards and hawks.

The pups are solid food chow hounds, and have figured out that drinking the goat's water from the trough is good enough...all they are doing on their Momma is habit and comfort.

For your enjoyment!!

05/14/2026

Anatolian/Great Pyr puppies learning who is ‘food’ and who is ‘friend’ (Finding Nemo quote)…
We do free-ranging poultry here, and the dogs protect all.

05/14/2026

I will advocate for trades in this day and age. I have "manifold" degrees (3xMS/MA, 1xBA) that placed me on a specific trajectory for my life, a set of strategic moves that started as early as 1992 AND involved me committing 30 years in uniform. To maximize and optimize all that personal trajectory...I would have had to work inside the beltway in D.C.

BUT...the strategic environment has changed. The BA/BS used to be the 'universal key' to get any job...I walked out of my BA with a Regular Army commission AND the potential to go into a plethora of law enforcement professions (if 'Plan A' failed). Now that everyone has a BA/BS and the relative number of 'white collar' jobs have not proportionately increased, a young person needs something tangible and physical that is not a) replaceable by AI, b) able to be determined 'non-essential' in some CV19, and c) not tied to a specific region of Team America.

A man who can stack dimes in any metal is employable at any time in any location...it doesn't matter if there are red ties or blue ties in D.C. Such a man doesn't need to work in a headquarters or an office building full of DEI and HR and face diapers; such a man doesn't have to compromise his personal values for continuing employment, advancement, or tenure; such a man can put down roots nearly anywhere because his trade is in demand everywhere.

--Cable--

05/13/2026

Belated ‘Mother’s Day’ post - my Rosie, out all night keeping the coyote, bobcats, foxes, and raccoons away from the farm - filthy - hasn’t even had her coffee yet, but tending to the pups!!

05/11/2026

The pups continue growing - 2 ‘super-fluffy’ great Pyr, three shorter haired Anatolian; 1 male, 4 female. Bath day with Mommy. Me and the sire watching over the whole scene

05/08/2026

Our LGD puppies are getting big!

We took them out to start learning the barnyard critters, and to tire them out a little.

Momma gives them a good feeding; babies drop into ‘milk coma’; sire Sam stays in the overwatch securing all critters - feathered fowl, and the two-and-four legged mammals!!

04/30/2026

We got a fairly good deal on some self-propelled weedeaters of the Nigerian dwarf variety!!

Rosie the GP/A mommy-dog takes a break from her litter to come check out the new charges.

04/28/2026

At long last, we are finally doing a level of unpacking, 7 years after the final PCS to Fort Hood.

We have a dumpster coming on Thursday; we are making other stuff ‘go away’ by fire through this week.

Burn ban will come soon - gotta knock all this down now!!