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This season's color

Orange dog collar


Pantone may think the color of the year is Emerald, but Lucy's fond of her new orange collar.

Most of the hunters we know are careful to get a good look at their "deer", but we didn't want to risk Lucy getting shot.

Despite her new styling wardrobe, Lucy's still a tomboy and is always the first one to the top of the mountain.



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About us: Anna Hess and Mark Hamilton spent over a decade living self-sufficiently in the mountains of Virginia before moving north to start over from scratch in the foothills of Ohio. They've experimented with permaculture, no-till gardening, trailersteading, home-based microbusinesses and much more, writing about their adventures in both blogs and books.



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You could also get her a spiffy orange cape so she looks like Krypto the Super Dog!

I once heard of a farmer who had a lot of city folks who would come and hunt in his area. He ended up resorting to painting "COW" in orange spray paint on the sides of each of his cows, because apparently it's difficult to tell the difference if you're not from the country.

Comment by Anonymous Thu Jan 10 10:23:17 2013
The Pantone color for 2012 was tangerine, so you're just a year off.
Comment by Heather Thu Jan 10 21:57:06 2013





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