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Wordless Wednesday: Sparks
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Author: Carol
Cousin
Scrolling through Facebook tonight… up pops my cousin’s comment. Fifty six years ago today, on patrol in the jungle of South Vietnam, he was gut shot. At eleven in the morning, he fell with the first bullet. I had to reply to him tonight. His story was a very vivid memory for my little nine…
They’ll Work
After making Tess these mittens for her birthday… I decided to make me another pair as well… the ones I had made years ago were now riddled with holes and one has gone walkabout. So today… One cuff is a bit longer. One has a bit of extra wool on the fingertips. But they’ll work.
Continuous Fence
Some of you were impressed with our fence and I agree. Continuous fence is very popular now with good reason. When I was first married in 1981, this corral had been dubbed “the new corral”. It was only a year or two old… It has been repaired and reinforced and refurbished, but it is definitely…
Corral Design
Winter has been extraordinarily warm and dry except for the one week we were plunged into -35 range. It was predicted this weekend would be full of rain but for over half of today, there wasn’t a raindrop in sight. Vernon returned to a project he’d started. I tagged along because projects are always more…
Reminiscing XI
Stories by James Greet: Bubbles was a good mother, like most felines. One summer, she had her kittens up in the haymow. It didn’t take us kids long to find them. She decided that her babies were too young to be handled by curious kids, she must do something. Bubbles moved them, one at a…
TBT: Perfect Fit
This was first published January 30, 2014. It still lives in my studio! On my Cheyenne trip last fall, we hit a few antique stores and flea markets. I left with a few items, some old timey looking canisters, a turquoise blue pitcher, and this. This was tucked away behind some other furniture and I…
Wordless Wednesday: Ash Tree
Ashes coat the cottonwood that caught fire last week. For its jigsaw puzzle, go HERE.
Time, Energy, & Gasoline
if you have Facebook, go follow me at Red Dirt In My Soul, and you’ll be a witness to a calf’s birth! I recorded the birth from home through our “Calf Cams”. The video is available in three parts. Vernon had checked on her a couple of times while we were at a basketball game….
Modern Times
”Processing” cows today. That term means to “pour” or apply a wormer in liquid form along their spine. They also get a shot to boost their immunity to bovine rotavirus and coronavirus that should be passed along to their calf. In other words, calf scours or diarrhea is a big killer of newborn calves. This…
Try Again
There is an urge, every year, to escape the ranch before calving season starts. Knowing that you will be busy, often round the clock for days on end, somehow stirs the desire for a day away. We try to take Sundays off, though that often doesn’t work, but today Vernon and I flew the coop….
Wool Mittens
It’s been eleven years… Eleven years since I made myself a pair of wool mittens. Today, we were to celebrate Tess’ upcoming birthday, and I made her a pair. I had such fun, I think I’ll make me another pair! They are made by laying bits of wool roving down along a plastic resist cut…