As we were working at the Mills Place, Daniel peered out an open window and said, “Storm’s coming!” And within minutes, the blizzard arrived. I headed home for lunch and snapped this photo hoping that you could see all the wind currents swirling the snow around. It didn’t turn out as well as I had…
Goodbye, heifers
This morning we sold the last of our heifers. These are the ones we didn’t choose for our replacements. They are almost 2 years old… ready to have their first babies themselves. In my humble opinion, they are pretty good looking heifers! Many of them I had picked to keep, however, if they don’t make…
Two Minute Naturewalk
Many of you have written to tell me how you enjoy pictures of Wyoming, but even better are the videos I’ve shared. The links to the videos I have on YouTube can be found on the bottom left of this page… just scroll down until you see them (they are listed as movies) and click…
Sunshine and Ice
Today was gorgeous. Glorious blue sky. Glaringly brilliant white snow. Sunshine. It was our day in the hills. Every four days we head out to our BLM leased land to open water tanks. Before Wyoming hit this huge drought, we actually chopped holes in reservoirs… now we break the ice on water tanks on long…
Cousin Robb
Today was uneventful… more perfataping at the Mills Place. Cleaning. Laundry. Dishes. Teaching. Pretty much standard life… but nothing inspired me today. And then I remembered. My cousin. Cousin Robb. This guy is younger than me. Though I never can remember how much! Most of my cousins were either a lot older or a lot…
Follow-Up on Be Warned
For those of you who expressed interest… just thought I’d let you know… the downed calf died last night. We hadn’t held out much hope for him, the vet says those kinds of injuries (spinal injuries) don’t usually have a good ending. He did have good food and water and care for his last…
Reprieve
I feel bad for you… perhaps I shouldn’t have posted that nasty photo of the prolapse… then again, if you desire to live in the Far Far West, you’d better get tough! I admit, I still go “Eeeew!”, I just have to put that aside and try to help with whatever we are working on!…
Be Warned
Today started as a normal day… a little laundry and dishes… a tad bit of Christmas music as I started to pull out some Christmas decorations. I hung the garland and lights on my front pole fence. Everything is starting to look “Merry and Bright”! Then Vernon returned from the badlands with a prolapsed cow. …
Multitasking
1. My furnace is fully functional now… oh, how I love the warmth! 2. Vernon hauls Lucas and I to Ten Sleep School so the kids can read to Lucas. We are a “reading therapy team” and children LOVE to read out loud to Lucas. He likes it too. Can you tell? 3. Vernon continues…
December’s First Snow
Last night the snow began right at dark… pellets that remind me of fertilizer! Within minutes the snow was an inch deep and it slowly continued throughout the night. By morning 5 inches of snow lay quietly on my world. My furnace had quit on Saturday… and now, believe me, I missed it! I always…
OOPE Fave 3
My fave photo from yesterday’s OOPE… is this… Just had to toss in a little antique effect for fun! Actually, it was kind of a toss-up between quite a few pics… maybe we should have a poll… and let you decide??? There was this… Which is a shot from the “backside” of the Mills Place….