My husband Geo and I bought this beautiful property 4 years ago in October 2005. We were really city people and not what you would call, "greenies". He'd always wanted a driveway a mile long and I always wanted to live without neighbors. I've never been a fan of people dropping by unannounced and often at very inconvenient times! We saw this house and these views and jumped right in with both feet. The house and its surrounding 11 acre property were called "Spruce Knob".
Our family at the time consisted of two wonderful
Min-Pins-- Salsa and Solomon (pictured at left). In 2006 after deciding the commute was too long I stopped working and we aquired a
Schipperke-- Ursa. What a blissful creature-- in any event fast forward to late 2008 where a miss timing in the spay and neutering cycle led to Ursa's pregnacy and our family increased to include three Minnerke's or Schipperpins - Weaselle, Gizmo, and Keela pictured with Geo below right .
With now six dogs and plenty of free woods in which to roam, few neighbors (none closer then a mile) there are plenty of porcupines. As a matter of fact there is an abundance of these creatures. Each of our dogs has been quilled at least once. Sadly Solomon the father of the Minnerke's has been quilled multiple times. He is a little challenged in some areas ie: porcupine avoidance-- but we love him nonetheless:)
Salsa with Quills
We decided to rename "Spruce Knob" Quill Hill hoping that by paying hommage to these porcupines in this way will prevent our dogs from being further traumatized--like Salsa was in this picture.
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