I’m searching for a new name. This blog comes free with my website… www.rimrockenglishshepherds.com but it is hard for people to find and/or remember. If you are looking for wonderful dogs, you can find the website by searching for English Shepherds and Wyoming… but if you only read one or two blog entries about calving or cowboying……
Category: Projects
Easter Egg- Part Two
When I begin an egg for pysanky, I might have a general idea of what I want… Traditional styles… or not. Traditional colors… or not. Sometimes I want to try something new. Like art deco styles… Wonderful end designs… Amazing bands of art deco swirls and integrated designs. My plan… Simple green and white. No…
Chain Cow Continues Her Adventures
I have to admit, I wasn’t sure this idea of mine was going to fly… I didn’t think anyone would be thrilled with this idea… But, it continues on… Remember this little number? She’s had way more adventures than a little Irish/American heifer(?) should ever have! I admit… I’m jealous. She’s in Texas right now… living it up….
A Growing Collection
Through the years, I’ve given most of my pysanky eggs away… to teachers, friends, family. I’ve always heard that if you give your first creative attempt away… then those “Muses” or creative spirits will come back to you and help you in future attempts. I continue to give most of these eggs away… evidently I…
Consistently Inconsistent
Although the day started cold… 27 degrees… by noon it was 50 or so… a gorgeous spring day in Wyoming! We are having many calves everyday… today we had 14! Vernon figures we are over halfway done and on the downhill slide. YAY! This time of year is always full of hard work for Vernon…
Someday Soon
The holiday must be over… it’s quiet in my house. No banter… No football game on the tv with a secondary background noise from computer or ipod… No key clicks from laptops at work… No opening of refrigerator doors to stare at contents… No semi-secretive attacks on the foil wrapped pie plates… No squeaking floors……
Studio Beginnings
Here’s the south facing wall of my studio/aka the old chickenhouse… The windows are covered in chicken wire… with traces of plastic sheeting left wafting in the breeze… The tiny picket door needs a latch to hold it closed… The wood door needs its hinges tightened so it doesn’t take a BIG SHOVE to open…
Project Studio
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…
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…