If you read my Throwback Thursday post from yesterday, you can compare notes and photos. In 2009, I mentioned how green everything was… how tall the grass was… how it was just WET and GREEN. Not so this year. We haven’t had a good measurable rain since April… I’m not counting the quick bursts of…
#TBT: Kicked Across, v.2.0
This was first posted August 18, 2009. I chose this post because we just did this… moving the cows into their new pasture. While in 2009, it had rained and rained, this year we can’t hardly beg a drop of rain. I just thought it’d be interesting for you to see how the weather can…
Wordless Wednesday: “Red Dog, Red Dirt, Red Light”
No filter used! For a puzzle of this photo, go HERE.
High Five
I admire people who can set goals and achieve them. I believe my goal setting is below average with rare success! I’m not proud of that part of my personality, but… there it is. I’m thrilled when YOU achieve YOUR goals, though! I was equally thrilled to see Tess accomplish a goal she had set…
More Stories
Before we leave Fort Phil Kearny behind, I wanted to share two more stories with you. We never know how we will act in horrific times. We all want to think we will be heroic and brave. Not everyone is. Here is the story of two men that were. The first was Adolph Metzger. The…
Re-Red:July 25 – August 1, 2020
This weekly movie from the blog Red Dirt In My Soul covers the reins I’m braiding, the pig wrestling event at the county fair (with Big Trails Natural Beef as sponsor), the mini “Girl Scout camp” with the granddaughters, moving cattle (of course), and a quick shot of a muddy little girl!
Battlefields
After going through Fort Phil Kearny’s interpretive center and the little bit of the reconstructed fort (it was burned down in 1868 after the soldiers abandoned it due to a peace treaty), we headed to two battlefields. The two battles that took place close to Fort Phil Kearny were the Fetterman Battle and the Wagon…
Fort Phil
I honestly did not know the “monster” I was creating. When Victoria and I came up with the idea that the boys would be cavalrymen in the costume contest at the kids’ rodeo, we didn’t anticipate the snowball. Sure, watch John Wayne in “She Wore a Yellow Ribbon”. Wear the costumes for ten minutes. I…
#TBT: New Project, v.2.0
This was first posted August 7, 2009. If someone… who knew ABSOLUTELY NOTHING about ranching… were to ask me…“What is your lifestyle like out in the middle of nowhere? Do you round-up cattle everyday like on television?” After I caught my breath from laughing and choking on my own spit, I would have to say,…
Wordless Wednesday: “Clouds over Kearny”
For a jigsaw puzzle of this huge cloud, go HERE.
8. 9. 10.
8. 9. 10. The guys weren’t really sure how many fires there were from the storm cell that passed us yesterday. With little rain but a fair amount of lightning, we had trees popping up on fire all around. Megan and Tess were gone with the boys, I picked up Lorelei from a babysitter and…
Mud Pies Allowed
I didn’t take photos of the older kids. Everyone got in on the mud pie action with the resulting mess. I made them strip down and learn how to actually SCRUB their clothes. Another teachable moment. How to hang them on my clothesline that they can’t actually reach… another lesson. And they had fun the…