Sometimes you forget how far you’ve actually come! My studio looks so much better now! This was first posted September 20, 2009. 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…
Wordless Wednesday: “Lone Tree”
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Heifers
Heifers. They’re young cows in their first pregnancy (hopefully). These are the same heifers we did the pregnancy blood test on earlier this year. This time we are having our vet palpate the calf fetus to see 1. If they are still pregnant 2. How old the fetus is. (which he can tell by the…
Lucky Girls
We preg tested our heifers today. We gathered, trailed, corralled, and tested them. You know… yada yada. OK, maybe not yada yada, since I will write about it tomorrow. I have to share the exciting stuff first! While we awaited the arrival of our vet, we ate lunch and the guys promptly crawled halfway under…
Re-Red: August 30 – September 5, 2020
It was a pretty quiet week overall. I didn’t work much, and have Tess and Megan to thank for sharing some of their cowboying photos. I noticed a fat beaver grooming creekside… processed my meat birds… had the memorable moment with Daniel… and enjoyed some quiet sunsets. Victoria came to visit, the sor-dan was finally…
Water Project
Growing up, Victoria reminisced, there was hardly a summer we didn’t work on a water project. I imagine she’s pretty accurate. Water means a great deal in this high desert country. If you’re not developing a new source, there are rusty metal tanks to replace, plastic pipeline to dig up and repair, electric fence to…
Case Lots!
I’m fairly pleased with myself. Today I managed to go shopping at my local grocery store… to their CASE LOTS SALE! Now, I live four hours away from a Costco and Sam’s Club… so this is a Big Deal for me. This is how I’ve shopped for YEARS. Until this spring. *For those of you…
#TBT: Wild Life, v.2.0
This was first posted September 14, 2009. When my friends from New Zealand were here not long ago…it made me re-realize the amount of wildlife we take for granted. I mean, I *know* it…but sometimes you just need people to oooohhh and aaaahhhhh over the little mule deer doe in the road to remind you! You can…
Wordless Wednesday: “End of Season”
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Dodge
We definitely dodged that bullet. It snowed here, lightly, briefly, and none of it stuck on the grass. The low temperature was only 34 degrees at my house. We received .29″ of rain, which was wonderful. The rest of Wyoming was not so lucky. Snow fell and stacked up and the wind howled. I’ve seen…
Freeze Coming
Wyoming remembered how to rain today. Saturday I was sweating while I was covering my tomatoes… yesterday was cooler and windy… right now it’s raining and 37 degrees, so snow will be here overnight. I had some old floor underlayment… the cushioned foamy stuff under flooring. I wondered if it would help protect the tomatoes…
Re-Red: August 22 – August 29, 2020
This video covers our anniversary trip up to Shell, Wyoming with visits to the Shell Store, Shell Canyon, and Shell Falls. Fasten your seatbelt when I fast forward you through the switchbacks coming back down! Next follows Daniel cutting the sor-dan… an impressive crop! A few slow motion birds… a harvest… and our big trip…