I have to share one of my Christmas presents with you. I asked for this item… a kindling splitter! Oh, sure, you can use a hatchet or axe to split your pieces down into kindling… but my aim has never been good with those, so I turned to this reverse operation. Place your log on…
Sheep and Wool
Today I attended a Women in Agriculture meeting entitled All About Wool. I freely admit I know practically nothing about sheep and wool. I’ve used wool from the roving stage in crafts including my wool covered soap “stones”, my wet felting of slippers, mittens, and a hat, my needle felting wool on felted wool Christmas…
#TBT: Wordless Wednesday: Friends, v.2.0
This was first posted January 4, 2012. I was talking about this the other day. No one lights up this pump jack anymore, and I miss it! For my not quite so Wordless Wednesday… a poem! **** On a dark Wyoming hill sits a pump jack all alone. Red lights shimmer upon it and give…
Wordless Wednesday: Prickly One
Ready for a tough prickly puzzle? Here you go.
Ice, Ice, Baby
As most of Wyoming is digging out from a nice dose of snow, the storm, once again, missed us, giving us two inches the past couple of days. Not that I wanted more, but I’d prefer snow any day over ice. The trip to my chicken coop is a hazardous walk twice a day. Thank…
Top Ten of ’22
10. Our “Ussie” Join me as I struggle to photograph ALL NINE of us as we finish moving heifers. Reagan has a few of her own since the work was done and she was off helping her grandpa. 9. Good Boy Good ol’ Bravo minds his manners while Vernon and I tend to a sick…
New Birthday
Happy New Year’s Birthday to Vernon! I spent half the day cooking and the rest visiting and eating and playing games. Here’s to many more!
Happy New Year
From me and mine to you and yours, HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Good Look
*All photos by Barrie Lynn Bryant* The saga of my photos entered in the Big Horn Basin documentary project is winding down. After traveling around the Basin on display in various venues, Barrie Lynn Bryant, director, has escorted them to their home with the Wyoming State Museum. Recently, they were put on display in the…
#TBT: Long Shot, v.2.0
This was first posted December 27, 2011. The guys have been going out regularly to our badlands pasture… every 5 days to open waterholes… and almost everyday to kick the cows off the fence. With the snow and lower temperatures, they yearn to drift in to the hayfields and beg for hay. It’s a big…
Wordless Wednesday: Decorations
For a jigsaw puzzle of some of my decorations, go here.
Anyone?
Though I’ve not mentioned it, the guys are still working… I’d like to know when there *isn’t* something to be working on. Every third day, they’re making a big loop in the badlands checking the cows’ water. That includes chopping ice on reservoirs and stock tanks and keeping the big generator running that feeds the…