My father-in-law’s great aunt used to live here. Her name was Wyoma. She was 4′ 7″ or somewhere in there. She was feisty. She was NOT politically correct. She was blunt. She had stories… oh, my! her stories… She wrote a book… I love it because it is “her”. I think it was written in…
Category: Family
The Continuing Travels of Cousin Robb 2
To complete Cousin Robb’s email from yesterday… Here it is. Some experiences are impossible to understand, much less mistake for mundane. For me, these usually have to do with just another example of the inhumanity of humanity: The hundreds of faces of the tortured in an infamous Khmer Rouge jail left me in tears (physical…
The Continuing Travels of Cousin Robb
For those of you that have followed me for a while, you know I share my Cousin Robb’s worldwide adventures. Cousin Robb is a workaholic who saves his money and then quits his job to go travel the world… usually as far from tourist destinations as possible. Other adventures of his can be found by…
Storyteller
I grew up with a father that was a storyteller. He loved history and on family trips in the car, he’d tell us stories… They just happened to be true… He could make those tales come alive. I’ve heard his dad was an even better storyteller, but I never met that grandfather. Put a bunch…
Big Trails
I’ve been painting a fair amount up at the Mills Place… every room needs painted and I’ve only painted the kitchen… now most of the mud room… next will be the office. I take Lucas with me 99% of the time… he lost out day before yesterday when he had helped with some corral work…
Bruner Draw
This is Bruner Draw. Named for the man who homesteaded with a small dugout located on the skyline to the right of the most left juniper tree… the fenceline here separates our private ground from BLM. This is the “badlands”. The green in the bottom of this draw also hides a boggy mucky mess that…
Busy Day… one of many to come!
I know I’m late, but I have had a busy day… My mother and daughter left after lunch today… so we spent the morning trying to talk about everything we’ve not had a chance to cover the past two days. It always seems like such a short visit… We had to play with the puppies…
Fighting the Friendliness
For my new readers… I have a category called Out of Scope… where the topic is not our Wyoming ranch or my children or my dogs. The topics are provided by my cousin who occasionally blesses us with an email about his world travels. I find his observations unique, mind-expanding, and curious. I hope you…
Sneaky
Well, I had to do it… I snuck off of the ranch today to attend one more Spring Creek Raid meeting… this time held in what is now known as The Big Horn Stage Company. This building is on the National Register of Historic Places and has been a hardware store, cafe, and general store….
The Spring Creek Raid
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 stepped across Spring Creek’s small meandering flow…
The Zone
For the women out there… (sorry, guys… estrogen area ahead!) Do you remember “The Zone”? For those of you my age… we endured childbirth the “natural” way… no drugs, nada, nothing. My oldest, my daughter, took forever! My middle child was a large baby boy with a round head. My baby… I “zoned” on him……
Heifer Vaccination
While the boys were here for spring break… we managed to do those jobs that need everyone on board. We’ll AI (artificially inseminate) our young yearling heifers in May but the process begins now… vaccinating them with PregGuard. Since Daniel and I work the front of the chute… and Brandon works loading the alley and…