Author: pvranchgetaway
Summer Beginnings
It's that time of year again. When the cows need to get pushed up the range where they happily munch their way back down to us... over and over again. The weather switches from sunny and hot -- to pouring rain in a blink. The fields are vibrantly green and the big new pivot makes [...]
The beginnings of Spring
Only a couple weeks ago we were knee deep in snow, and I was taking photos of the fog and the cold winterscape. Calves were snuggled up in the barn against the cold, and feeding the cows was the one major focus of the whole farm. It was a bit like an old country [...]
In the long, long winter
As I sit here at my computer, trying to find something new to share with you, the sun is splashing here and there outside my window in funny little shapes and splotches. It looks like it's dancing with the shadows, teasing the spindly branches of all the trees that huddle together against the wind, pouring [...]
In the Cold Snap
The sun is bright and stretching across the snow in glittering, sparkly gold this week. It's a deceiving light, a warm glow through the window, a cheery, welcoming, blue-skied kind of look that almost makes you think of spring. However... it's so cold outside the door, if you wrinkle your nose, the wrinkles stay put [...]
When you want some Christmas cookies
When Christmas is coming to the farm, there's no such thing as too many goodies. When you set out to bake them, you must think of the numbers, the quantity of choices, and the always empty tummies of the grandkids! Our family has grown quite large, and Christmas is one of those times when we [...]
Slow down
It's the slow down days, the take a breath and sit down days. The cabins sit cozy warm and full of hunters and loggers for the moment, the cows are back home in the fields and the roads are quiet. It's look at the beauty we live in days. It may not be as pretty [...]
Blessings in the storm
This may not look like a blessing. Where there was once a forest full of pine, sits instead, a dusty, dirty and somewhat barren landscape. In short it's a mess. Broken up stumps and spindly twisted limbs lying everywhere you look. We had a windstorm this spring. It blew like a tornado through the farm [...]
Sorting
These days the cold has a more of a slap than a snap to it. It's not quite the freezing, turn your cheeks to stone kind of cold - but one that reminds you very clearly that Winter is coming. The hair on the cows is all thick and burly, and the calves are getting [...]
A day at the farm
Once upon a time, there was a farm. It sat huddled between big scrubby mountains far from town, and enjoyed it's view. It was surrounded by incredible beauty, and all kinds of creatures. There were fish in the river, and cows on the fields. Horses that wandered and coyotes that howled. It was a busy [...]
Rooted & Established 