This post was first written July 19, 2008. It has been a year since Butcher’s Foothills Elsa has come to live with me onthe ranch. At first glance, she was small but quick, slightly nervous, definitely prone tobarking in situations that make her nervous, lost, looking for love, and willing to pleasesomeone since she had left her Oklahoma…
Tag: Throwback Thursday
#TBT: So Much To Tell 2.0
Another repeat post from 2008. I talk about how it rained and rained and snowed… That we’d had over 2” of moisture… it sounds so eerie since this year we have had 3.6” of rain this month! Flooding had begun. That hasn’t happened here yet, but all that white snow on the mountain will come…
#TBT: Branded 2.0
I’m about out of historical photos… though I’ve held a few back for later down the road. I thought maybe I’d go back into the history here on Red Dirt In My Soul… back when it was simply an addendum entitled “Overlook” on my Rimrock English Shepherds website. The website is gone… seven years of…
#TBT : House Double Take
This house photo (circa 1940’s?) (and, yes, I posted this a couple of weeks ago) compared to a fairly close image taken last week… The perspective is a tad bit off. The house has been added on to and is now covered in siding. The corner of the sod roof bunk house can be seen…
#TBT : House
So many things have changed from this photo! There’s no date. I would guess 1940’s… as I can’t see the house where Daniel lives and I think it was built in the 1950’s. There is a man standing to the left by the equipment. This is Johnny’s house, but before the large porch was attached…
#TBT: Winter Riders
Our snow is all but gone… but in this #tbt, it looks cold if not deep. No date. No names.
#TBT: Proud to be Green
Let’s Throwback Thursday to 1973… This is me in my Cadette Girl Scout uniform… and since the Girl Scout birthday was just on March 12, hey… why not? I probably could scrape up photos of me in all my uniforms, from Brownies to Seniors… and then throw in some camp counselor and troop leader and…
#TBT : Info Needed
OK, local folks and relatives, I need a little help on this photo. I know this is the old highway where today the bridge is impassable over Crooked Creek. But what I know as the “school house” sits further south and it’s a log structure. What/whose house was this? Where did it move to, or…
#TBT : Written Insights
I continue to paw through old paperwork… and it’s tedious… but every little bit there’s a gem with written insights into the early days of this ranch. I’m going through old checks… from the 1930’s. First thing you notice… 70% of them are written in PENCIL. Pencil! Many are for what today would be very…
#TBT: Cardboard Treasures
As Johnny continues to clean and organize his basement, more cardboard boxes full of “treasure” have appeared. For instance, right now we have a box full of letters and cancelled checks and other papers from 1933-1949. The letter tells of the attempt to purchase 40 acres from Mr. M., as it would square off a…