This was first published January 30, 2014. It still lives in my studio! On my Cheyenne trip last fall, we hit a few antique stores and flea markets. I left with a few items, some old timey looking canisters, a turquoise blue pitcher, and this. This was tucked away behind some other furniture and I…
Wordless Wednesday: Ash Tree
Ashes coat the cottonwood that caught fire last week. For its jigsaw puzzle, go HERE.
Time, Energy, & Gasoline
if you have Facebook, go follow me at Red Dirt In My Soul, and you’ll be a witness to a calf’s birth! I recorded the birth from home through our “Calf Cams”. The video is available in three parts. Vernon had checked on her a couple of times while we were at a basketball game….
Modern Times
”Processing” cows today. That term means to “pour” or apply a wormer in liquid form along their spine. They also get a shot to boost their immunity to bovine rotavirus and coronavirus that should be passed along to their calf. In other words, calf scours or diarrhea is a big killer of newborn calves. This…
Try Again
There is an urge, every year, to escape the ranch before calving season starts. Knowing that you will be busy, often round the clock for days on end, somehow stirs the desire for a day away. We try to take Sundays off, though that often doesn’t work, but today Vernon and I flew the coop….
Wool Mittens
It’s been eleven years… Eleven years since I made myself a pair of wool mittens. Today, we were to celebrate Tess’ upcoming birthday, and I made her a pair. I had such fun, I think I’ll make me another pair! They are made by laying bits of wool roving down along a plastic resist cut…
Reminiscing X
I don’t know why I’ve had such trouble posting my Throwback Thursday posts. I’ve always chosen to do it, as it’s been easy to do, especially since I work Thursdays. Just copy and paste a post from ten years ago… and, poof. Done. Now the computer refuses to update and save the posts, citing JSON…
Wordless Wednesday: The Burn
For a jigsaw puzzle of the burn, go HERE.
Big Job
While I was on burn pile duty… Vernon was busy cutting pipe. We buy used pipe and cut it to size to use in fences and corrals. He built a makeshift rack so he wouldn’t have to bend over… He does just a few at a time. It’s a rather big job… And for those…
Burn Pile
In 2020, a large cottonwood fell over next to Johnny’s house. Luckily it missed his house, but it made him nervous, and soon, those cottonwoods next to the barn were to come down. What do you do with humongous green trees? You put them in a pile. Green trees don’t burn… so you wait. And…
Happy Happy Blogoversary
24 minus 8. I never had a clue in 2008 I’d still be writing in 2024, but here I am, still chugging along starting one more year of telling stories and taking photos. I find it somewhat interesting that everyone is enjoying the stories of Johnny’s brother, James Greet, these first few days of 2024….
Going Home
I met our neighbor’s cows going home…