I went to a good friend’s house yesterday afternoon for a test drive. I’ve been on the lookout for a new horse, and he’s been helping me. My dream horse: 6 or 7 years old (the stupid has usually left by then!) Short enough I can get on…(the stirrup keeps getting harder…
Busy Day… one of many to come!
I know I’m late, but I have had a busy day… My mother and daughter left after lunch today… so we spent the morning trying to talk about everything we’ve not had a chance to cover the past two days. It always seems like such a short visit… We had to play with the puppies…
Happy Easter!
I hope you have a wonderful Easter holiday!
Relax
Sometimes I get a little pressured. I’ve got company coming and a filthy house. I don’t know what’s for lunch and I have to feed people. I need to be naming puppies and writing my centennial stories and creating my book design and cleaning this ranch and painting the Mills place and … you know……
It’s Quiet…
I went to the Mills Place yesterday to do a little painting. Our new kitchen cabinets are almost totally installed (!) and since the day was going to be a dreary day of rain/snow mix, it seemed a good time to put some color in the mud room. I loaded up Lucas and Dally and…
Fighting the Friendliness
For my new readers… I have a category called Out of Scope… where the topic is not our Wyoming ranch or my children or my dogs. The topics are provided by my cousin who occasionally blesses us with an email about his world travels. I find his observations unique, mind-expanding, and curious. I hope you…
Wordless Wednesday – “…Puppy Dog Tails Antithesis
I have “Snips, and Snails, and Puppy Dog Tails (Antithesis)! Tomorrow: Out of Scope from Bangladesh and India!
Motherhood – Pass/Fail
You get the privilege of watching motherhood in various forms out here. Cows and calves, does and fawns, mares and foals, goose and goslings, hens and chicks, ewes and lambs. Here, I have Elsa… a great mom… I help with the first time mothers, the heifers… Then, we have those that fail at motherhood. Night…
The Zone on Video
Remember the Zone? Well, I captured it on video yesterday morning… So if you’re up for 4 minutes of puppy squirming, squeaking, grunting, and nursing… you’re one happy puppy. Or eleven. Please notice… Big Sister Dally is allowed to be there now… Don’t think that Elsa doesn’t make her pay on occasion! But Dally is…
Sneaky
Well, I had to do it… I snuck off of the ranch today to attend one more Spring Creek Raid meeting… this time held in what is now known as The Big Horn Stage Company. This building is on the National Register of Historic Places and has been a hardware store, cafe, and general store….
Popularity
When I began this blog, I believed it to be an outlet for my personal attempts at writing interesting stories about ranchlife. For the first time in history, more of the population of the world lives in cities than in the country. Most people are removed from the land and the “real world”. Nature has…
The Spring Creek Raid
The two brothers dreaded the walk they knew they must take. Leaving the relative warmth of the log cabin, they trudged outside into four inches of wet spring snow. The softness and beauty the snow would normally lend to the land now lay eerily upon shapes unknown. They stepped across Spring Creek’s small meandering flow…