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……
Category: Family
Brudders
Well, over at that famous supposedly pioneer lady’s blog… she has a photography contest about “Brothers” this week. Aha! Between my two boys… I *KNOW* I have some good shots (and memories). Like the time they were toddlers and were playing in the mud and got their boots STUCK in the muck… and screamed for…
Stockdog History
Since it decided to rain today (starting off with a skiff of snow), Vernon did tractor work which left me to work on my house again. I’m getting my closets figured out and reorganized… pulling out a shelf here, adding it there, and moving the rods around. Repainting. I think I have it. Now to…
Girls and Chaps
Yawn. It’s been a busy week off the ranch… I told you earlier about the activities at the library… Mr. Gagliano came and did a great job with the kids and adults… And today’s prep for the book sale was fast and furious with TONS of help! so… stories about ranchlife have been few and…
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…
Red Dirt of Home
Daniel and I made a flying trip to Billings yesterday. He’d have rather done *anything* else… but he made the proper decision to have his wisdom teeth pulled. Poor guy. He’s puffy and definitely not his cheery regular self… Been there/done that. I had little over an hour to kill in a city with manymany…
Happy Girl
My help was requested this morning, so I found myself driving the tractor and even pitching a little hay. It was a VERY nice morning… in the 20’s… so that means 50 degrees warmer than the other day! Plus, driving the tractor also means *heater* and *radio*. Koosh life. <How do you spell koosh? cush?…
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…
The Tea Party Snowman
I caught the guys playing on the way to their pickups. The fresh snow was WET… a springlike snow… and irresistible! All three boys started rolling a ball… and met by the tire swing. Unfortunately, the top ball was a crackhead and he was quickly dispatched. Neverfear… Daniel quickly rolled another one! Sticks were quickly…