A re-cap of our Wyoming ranch life from January 1 – January 7, 2021. This video covers opening water holes for cows, a job that must be done daily, and the arrival of our new additions to our calving shed. After unloading the sheds, the guys have to go feed, and I go inside to…
Category: History
Vintage
Johnny shared a couple more vintage photos with me. This one of Louise Greet and her brother caught my eye. The horse… maybe not the most gorgeous specimen. Round metal stirrups. That hat! Woolly chaps. Double saddlebags? Gun scabbard on the left side of the horse. The rope he’s holding looks very soft. But then,…
#TBT: For It Was A Place of Joy… v.2.0
This was first posted October 20, 2009. Before this weekend’s activities… I was going to share barn pictures. Let’s get to it! This barn used to belong to D. and M. when I came here almost 30 years ago. I helped brand their calves… I ate in their yard… …
Petroglyph Proof
After our trip back in to history to the Lewis homestead cabin, we went even farther back in history with a side trip to petroglyphs. Just like The Dugout, I have written about the petroglyphs before. You might want to click through and read the link first. I was wondering how they were holding up…
Whisper of Dreams
Well, sorry. I didn’t make a Re-Red today. It takes at least two hours and I didn’t have time. I will try to put one together tomorrow. We took another trip, this one, however, has been in the works for a few years. Vernon’s cousins have wanted to visit their old family homestead. It sold…
More Stories
Before we leave Fort Phil Kearny behind, I wanted to share two more stories with you. We never know how we will act in horrific times. We all want to think we will be heroic and brave. Not everyone is. Here is the story of two men that were. The first was Adolph Metzger. The…
Battlefields
After going through Fort Phil Kearny’s interpretive center and the little bit of the reconstructed fort (it was burned down in 1868 after the soldiers abandoned it due to a peace treaty), we headed to two battlefields. The two battles that took place close to Fort Phil Kearny were the Fetterman Battle and the Wagon…
Fort Phil
I honestly did not know the “monster” I was creating. When Victoria and I came up with the idea that the boys would be cavalrymen in the costume contest at the kids’ rodeo, we didn’t anticipate the snowball. Sure, watch John Wayne in “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon”. Wear the costumes for ten minutes. I…
Little House Re-enacted
Yesterday’s photo of “Little House” reminded me of something. The Kids’ Rodeo is coming up in Ten Sleep… Jaxon was chosen to carry in the American flag in the Grand Entry. That’s pretty cool… so he’s been practicing with his pony, Jackie, and getting her used to the flag. I asked Tess if he was…
#TBT: “A Find”, v.2.0
This was first posted July 9, 2009. I know someone who found something and then, wonder of wonders, returned it to the closest owner available. Her husband is a carpenter and was remodeling an old cabin. Tucked away in the bottom of an old cabinet, was this. Absolutely gorgeous, is it not??? Hand-tooled… spectacular. It…
Zoom
While we all tend to think of the word, Zoom, just a bit differently nowadays, ( hey, I attended a Zoom conference just this afternoon!), I was going to share something using the old definition. I stumbled across this photo again, and marveled at it. It’s easily recognizable as our place due to that gunsight…
#TBT: Spring Creek Raid, v.2.0
This was first published April 3, 2009. The two brothers dreaded the walk they knew they must take. Leaving the relative warmth of the log cabin, they trudged outside into four inches of wet spring snow. The softness and beauty the snow would normally lend to the land now lay eerily upon shapes unknown. They…