As calving season creeps closer, we keep an even closer eye on the weather if that’s possible. We should have been calving in January as nice as the weather has been. This last snowstorm was predicted to be either 1”-3” or 3”-5” depending on which weather app you wanted to believe. Thursday morning I measured…
#TBT: Happy With It, v.2.0
This was first posted February 19, 2011. As I’m finishing up a table, it’s great to look back and see how I did with my entertainment center upcycle. Here she was. And here she is… Complete. OK, Dori, I still haven’t installed your remote so the door can stay shut. Someday… I LOVE my “old” glass…
Wordless Wednesday: “Partner”
For a jigsaw puzzle of this partner of mine, go HERE.
Ranch Living Video
This short video tells of middle school basketball games with the grands, some alcohol ink crafting, our young bulls, an amazing sun pillar, Bravo reenacting Lucas’ award winning photo, and a short walk through the fields. Not a long video… but life is quiet here for now.
Deception
I have two hens that are broody… claiming eggs, setting, pecking me when I steal them from under their warm feather bellies. Since both of my roosters met their fate a month or more ago, I kept trying to explain to the hens that being broody was simply a waste of time. Neither believed me….
Interpretation
With his name and enrollment number to the right of him, my great grandfather, Kennedy Underwood, is seated in a fancy peacock chair. I’m not quite finished, but I do like my interpretation.
Inspiration
I don’t know quite what I will do, but at tomorrow’s Ledger Art Class, I may decide to use one of the photos of one of my ancestors… I love old photos. My great grandfather, William Charles Burton, in front of his store in Paris, Texas. Or another great grandfather, Kennedy Underwood, shown seated. He’s…
#TBT: Delicate Poo, v.2.0
This was first posted February 10, 2011. And… I am soooo weird. Compared to the greyness of yesterday… intensified by my use of black and white photography…today was almost a painful blue… The first shot, I was really looking at Daniel in the rearview…the second, at our shadow on the creek ice. They are almost…
Wordless Wednesday: “Cattail Fluff”
For a jigsaw puzzle of this winter’s cattail fluff, go HERE.
I Declare
Even though it needs many coats of polyurethane, I declare the table finished! Well, and then Megan has to finish the base… but my artwork and the painting/staining is complete. I painted some shading in this morning and left that to dry. With heaters going, the studio was plenty warm for paint to dry. A…
Treasure
You may be tiring of table updates, but that’s all I seem to be working on! Soon enough, calving season will begin, and you’ll have more ranch/cow photos, but for now, it’s me and that table (and you). I showed it to Brandon and Megan yesterday, and we changed a few things up. Unbelievably, I…
Beginning A New Year at the Ranch Video
My year started off with a bang when something exploded and burned my new wool sweatshirt. Vernon’s New Year’s birthday was followed by babysitting some of my grands where we always find adventure. We looked for two bulls in some big country and branded a few as well. A new hay feeder arrived and the…