Here’s my new project… On the left is the log cabin section… On the right is a stick addition… It was last used as a chicken house… It is dirty. It is uninsulated. It is a dream. It overlooks the fields and the red hills and western sunsets… It now will become my place… An…
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Back to the Lost World
We went back to the Lost World again today… The main focus for today was lowering the electrical conduit down the side of the canyon to connect our new 1.5 horse pump (which will be in the bottom next to our ram pump) to our generator (which will be on top). The plan was for…
Lost World
Yesterday I left off where I had entered the Lost World of Otter Creek Canyon… Within the few minutes (actual time) of leaving the top of the steep canyon where sagebrush blooms alongside cedars and mule’s ears and prickly pear make their appearances as garnishes… we end up here… An entirely different ecosystem. Full of…
New Project Defined
The Project actually was started about a month ago… Written in bits and pieces on scrap paper and time spent on the internet researching and on phone calls ordering and questioning. Until about a week ago when production started on a water tank… (One thing about ranchers… they are great at recycling… way before any…
Not Puppies
They’ve arrived! Nope, not puppies… that was last week. This week’s celebrated arrival is my brand spanking new spiced up hickory kitchen cabinets! If you’ve been here long enough, you know we’ve been working on a kitchen remodel. There are tons of photos about it… demolition, new sheetrock, and lots and lots of mud. That all was…
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……
Heifers 3
So, we have gathered and sorted heifers, and now we do our night checks. I’m in charge of the 10:30 pm night check… I’m more a night owl than Vernon, so while he might have been in bed for a couple of hours already, I’m just finishing a craft or watching the news, or reading a book… and ready…
Heifers 2
What a wonderful springlike day… warm, snow melting everywhere… runoff turning the creek from clear to red… and more babies! Our cows have now started having babies as well, so within two weeks we’ll be surrounded by calves – bucking, playing, running wild with tails in the air! For now, I have the second video…
Heifers Step 1
I have a series of videos showing how we calve our heifers. Tonight is step one… The gathering of the small area where they spend their days. If any calves want to be born in daylight, we’ll just push them up to the corral and pen them. However, if they choose to be born at…
Inspiration – Stoves and Eggs
Although I haven’t shared the other pysanky eggs I’ve been working on… I just have to share this one because I shared its inspiration the other day. Some of you even wrote and said you loved my inspiration too. For those of you out of the loop, here’s the Coolest Wood Stove of all Time that I drool…
Pysanky Monochrome
OK… If you are just getting into pysanky… this is a quick and fun learning experience. I just do this design freehand, and vines and leaves seem to be an easy subject for me. I often recommend that people draw what they doodle… are you a star person or triangles? Do you outline letters or…
Pysanky – Nontraditional
Thanks to those that have entered my pysanky giveaway… your odds are really good at winning it! 😉 For those that have been following my traditional Ukrainian egg decorating lessons… it’s time to get wild and crazy! We tried traditional designs like this: Now let’s try something along these lines: I have included: tumbling blocks quilt…