Well, it’s been almost a week now… I haven’t looked at the formal portraits we had taken on our Centennial day… But I’ve decided it’s time to move on. Move on to the quiet ranchlife of moving cattle, which I did today… Putting out salt… Spying a hillside full of elk… Enjoying my kids before…
Centennial Gift
You are probably getting tired of hearing about our Centennial Celebration, but, you know, I really want to share every minute of it with you! Hang in there… we’re almost back to everyday life… One present I wanted to share, besides Red Dirt in My Soul, is the framed photo I gave to Johnny. A…
Red Dirt In My Soul
Finally, I managed to get my book illustrated and published with the local print shop. The “illustrations” are really my photos of the ranch, modified to look like watercolors with Photoshop. My original idea was to post each individual page, but I decided that I wanted to share my boys’ rendition they gave during our…
Wordless Wednesday – “Hues of Ancient Promise”
“Hues of Ancient Promise” (Charles Tennyson Turner)
Centennial Traffic
Ranch “outfits”… definition: motorized transportation/work vehicles Four wheelers… Motorcycles… Pickup trucks… “Town” cars… Sometimes we are accused of having too many around here… Each kid has their car… We have 3 pickups… A truck… 3 four wheelers… Two motorcycles… My Durango… Johnny’s car… But NEVER. NEVER. Has this ranch seen this many cars at once!…
Centennial Song
One of THE best things from our Centennial Celebration was this song, written and sung by our friend Joe Bain from Crowheart, Wyoming. We’ve known Joe a loooong time, and were thrilled with this composition! One Hundred Years Ago ©2009, Joe Bain Greet Ranch Centennial Song from Carol Greet on Vimeo. By the Nowood River…
Centennial Celebration
Over 100 relatives… Fed over 300 family and friends… Launched my book Red Dirt in My Soul… Talked and talked… Hugged and hugged again… Took very few pictures unfortunately… Relying on others for that… Legs are tired… Left my camera in a car over there… So no photos tonight… Need to put my feet up…
P.’s Parable
P. participated in the Kids’ Rodeo last weekend. Though she doesn’t have a horse of her own, she has access to horses through relatives. It takes a little effort to prepare and ride in the rodeo… and P. did well. P. is being raised by her aunt and uncle… they have really stepped up and…
Kids’ Rodeo Complete
I need to finish up my kids’ rodeo pictures… So tonight, here are both of the highlights… You lucky readers, you! First, the shirt-tail button race. (First, please notice the frozen ears on this horse… or the lack of ears on this horse because he was born on a cold and windy morning… whatever…) The…
Wordless Wednesday – ‘Neath the Deep and Darkening Sky
‘Neath the Deep and Darkening Sky
Mountain Trail
I need to put off my other Kids’ Rodeo pictures for a bit and share the ones from yesterday. My sister was official photographer… The focus (pun intended) of her pictures is a bit different from mine… First, she takes more photos of people… (Like me visiting with my mother as we take a break)…