This day was a day of visiting and cooking and eating and talking and playing games and changing diapers and burping (the baby!) and wind and rain and moving shelves and planning and laughing and crying (the baby!) and singing and watching (the tv AND the baby!) and playing and changing diapers and napping and kissing…
Category: Life
So Thrilled
Goodnight!, these days are long! Seems like I don’t sit down to write until 10:30 or so… I’ve had the privilege the past few days of photographing a wedding on Sunday and engagement photos on Monday. I was so thrilled. Since I didn’t ask permission to share online, I can’t… or I won’t… whichever. But…
My Easter Gift
We’re at that stage… My kids are too old to decorate eggs for Easter… even my pysanky is for me… no one joins in. Their nice Easter baskets sit gathering dust in the basement. I’ve always tried to keep Easter going, laying trails with candy that they’d track down and find some little gift inside……
Wordless Wednesday – “Marvel Photos”
This will be a slightly un-Wordless Wednesday… For my post yesterday, I didn’t have these available… but now I do… This is my marvel. Dandy. As my baby. As my son. As a man. Please forgive me for the next few days… I shall be computerless and therefore, blogless! However, I shall share photos of…
Marvel
As I sat here at my computer and watched our “Calf Cam” over the internet, I marveled. Oh, not at the technology, although its seemingly “magical” powers are astounding… but at the man on the screen. I tweeted about him… step by step… as he loaded a heifer in the chute… struggled with a…
Any Ideas Part II
Great! I should have known you would have some great ideas about my post yesterday on losing my sense of taste! Let me answer a few questions. Once I found out that losing your sense of taste could be a side effect of fish oil… I stopped taking it. That was last summer sometime… I…
Any Ideas
I may not go into really deep personal issues here on this blog… It’s NOT my style! But since a few of you have asked… and we all know that in many ways… this internet can be a GOOD creation… I figured I’d go ahead and put this out there. If you can lead me…
BoomTrax
Goodness. I know this happens periodically around here… My mind goes a bazillion different ways. Maybe because we’ve worked cattle and moved cattle. We’ve played in the snow. We’ve gone to town (I know, big woohoo to you city folk, but hey, it *can* be exciting… plus I have a new haircut! <batseyelashes> I have…
First Walk
First Walk I took my first walk with my dogs this afternoon… LONG overdue… My first of 2010… My first since Christmas… My first for waaaaaaa-aaaaay too long! Can you see Elsa’s impatience and Boomer’s passive indulgence? But more, can you see Dally’s LOVE? (Lucas is already in the trees ahead) How about now??? Oh,…
A Gift
I’ve been extremely lucky in my life to have some great friends. They’ve all shared a part of my life… Helped me to grow… Helped me when times were tough… Helped my moods, my spirit, my workload! Most are long gone down the roads that separate us all. That doesn’t mean I don’t think of…
Book
Long ago… when my kids were little and chubby and cute and just… just… just… you know… so full of potential and… LIFE!, I wrote a children’s book. About them… and this ranch… and the feeling that you get here… of continuing tradition… of history… of hard work… of generations… I called it Red Dirt…
Ten Days and Counting
Ten days and counting… Butcher’s Foothills Elsa, (United Kennel Club Registry, English Shepherd Club Registry, Canine Good Citizen, MDR1 mutant/normal, OFA Good, light shaded sable female, born 5/10/2004) is gravid, fecund, replete. Gravid is a great term for her. Heavy, burdened. Slowed by the extra weight, she rocks to achieve a standing position. Fecund. Prolific….