I’m searching for a new name. This blog comes free with my website… www.rimrockenglishshepherds.com but it is hard for people to find and/or remember. If you are looking for wonderful dogs, you can find the website by searching for English Shepherds and Wyoming… but if you only read one or two blog entries about calving or cowboying……
Author: Carol
Easter Egg- Part Two
When I begin an egg for pysanky, I might have a general idea of what I want… Traditional styles… or not. Traditional colors… or not. Sometimes I want to try something new. Like art deco styles… Wonderful end designs… Amazing bands of art deco swirls and integrated designs. My plan… Simple green and white. No…
Easter Egg
Just had to upload this to celebrate the day… I’ll write more later… I hope you have a wonderful Easter Day…
Questions and Answers- April Edition
Here they are… your questions *hopefully* answered by me! SARA: How old are some of your cows? ANSWER: Cows usually start breaking or losing their teeth around 7 or 8 years of age. They are then called “broken mouth cows”. As it worsens, they have a harder time eating and do poorer. Since we don’t…
What’s in Front
Today was incremental in its rise in temperature… but the sun was out, and though the slight breeze held a chill, people and calves both appreciated the lack of wet snow coming down sideways! This was a WET snow, and as it slowly retreated throughout the day, sure enough, the green grass below it is…
Blooming Snow
Sure enough, it is almost Easter… and so a snowstorm has hit! I went to Worland tonight to a Pet First Aid Class… and decided to take this photo of our mailbox as I drove in just half an hour ago. Though we only have 3 inches or so on the ground, it does look…
Wordless Wednesday- “Everyday Scenery”
Almost forgot… it is Wordless Wednesday! My view up the western slope of the Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming…
Identity Theft
Remember Half-Pint? She’s the tiny little twin we’ve been bottle feeding. Today, we found her a new mommy. Unfortunately, that meant another calf died… one we’d doctored for scours (severe diarrhea) and he eventually succumbed. But life on a ranch isn’t easy and we know that. Turning a misfortune into a lucky game is the…
OCDog
You know these guys… the main players of Rimrock English Shepherds… Lucas. Dally. Elsa. Or what my family calls them… “The Brown Dogs”… a reference to their sable color – even though we know Dally is a tri – a small detail to my spouse and children. Then there is “The Black Dog”. Boomer. Australian…
Craig Johnson
Yesterday I went to see a special visitor at the Ten Sleep Library. His name is Craig Johnson and he is the author of five books. The sixth, Junkyard Dogs, is due out in May. When his first book came out, entitled The Cold Dish, I remember thinking “This guy *understands* Wyoming!” At the time I was still working…
Picnic
I have lost power twice in the past 30 minutes… ugh. So tonight’s entry is short and sweet in order that it *finally* can be published! We went on a picnic this afternoon… with our winter coats on and snowbanks in the shadows of the junipers… but a good enough Wyoming spring day for us!…
Antler Hunting
For those of us with “cabin fever” … these fleeting springlike days are great temptations to get OUT… OUT of our jobs, our houses, our ruts… and hike in temperatures higher than 20 degrees… with no knee deep mud… or knee deep snow. We can walk and see what the winter brought and is leaving…