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Stay-cation.

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    "I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived." -Henry David Thoreau      In the past, I have made numerous new years promises that I have not kept.  This year one of my resolutions was to work on big walls (destructing) and little boundaries (constructing). I very rarely take time off. This year I had the good fortune to be able to take a weeks break in our off season of work and herding to go visit a friend in Canada.  I left my dogs behind.                        Dogs were still the center of the visit.  Working dogs.  On a small working farm.  It was timeless in nature.  I felt like I had slipped back in history in a way. Reaching a time when my Grandma and Grandpa or Great Aunt or Great Uncle ran their farm/ranches in the west.  It held the magical