By Carol *and* Jaxon
Silvertone Portraits
By Carol *and* Jaxon
Category: Family
Easter Hunt
While our Easter was white, that’s not unusual. The extreme cold and wind was a little rougher! Every year, I’ve made a scavenger hunt for the kids. I started with photographs of the chicken coop, garage, or other recognizable places, and they’d run place to place, never knowing where I’d hidden their sacks of presents…
Many Faces
We weighed steers this afternoon. Jaxon helped. The entire time. His hands got sore from pulling the chute gate rope. He has to hang on the thing to lift it. He’s quite the worker! He’s also a pretty happy worker, even if these photos don’t catch him smiling. Just bad timing on my part. Behold….
Best Day Eva! Video
While the kids have been helping move cows and sort pairs before… I took this time to give them a Pairing 101 class. Sometimes you realize you just expect people to know what to do, and clear instructions aren’t given. They’ve heard all this before, I’m sure. It takes a while to learn to read…
Work to Be Done
Snow melted and there was work to be done. I got some pretty cute video, too. Come back tomorrow!
#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…
Ten Sleep Library, The Greet’s Branding video
Made another video for the Ten Sleep Library today. Follow the Ten Sleep Branch Library on Facebook if you’re a Facebooker! This one is pretty special. We put out the call for unpublished children’s stories… ones that might relate to ranch life or Wyoming, something special and unique we could read online. Authors could be…
Ten Talks
While the Ten Sleep Library is currently on hiatus, like many other places… we wanted to keep in touch with our patrons. For the older folks we’ve been promoting our free audiobooks, ebooks, and magazines. Plus the amazing databases on genealogy, history, Wyoming newspapers, auto repair, practice tests for school and professional exams… the list…
Funny Valentine
Growing up, I was a Daddy’s Girl. I followed him around like a puppy, and he taught me to shoot and fish and build and shovel and repair. Unknowingly, he prepared me for this ranchlife, having the skills to learn and to try and to be confident. When I was a senior in high school,…
Gebo, Wyoming Video
I’ve tried to give you a sense of place when it comes to the ghost town of Gebo. It’s solitary. It’s quiet. It’s a simple echo of who once lived there. I hope you enjoy this!
Gebo II
In places like Gebo, my “nose ends up on the ground”, as my dad used to say. “Look up! Look around!” So I do… for a while… but that anthropology/archaeology degree keeps me looking down. Glass. Blue glass, green glass, purple glass, milk glass, pottery. Metal. Uh, things… bits and bobs. When a town gets…
Gebo
Vernon, after feeding his share of the cows, returned home Sunday morning and suggested we go for a drive. The day was gorgeous, full of sunshine and a warmth that promised that spring is on her way here. (She’s just packing her suitcase slowly and is uncertain about her arrival date. Obviously, since it snowed…