Summer is just peeking around the corner and the ranch is a busy beehive of activity right now. Rows of freshly cut grass fill the fields, bales are being picked up day by day and Dev's little turnips are poking their heads out. After winter dragged its feet leaving the scene, it feels like the [...]
It's hard to describe the feeling of a cattle drive when it's about to start, but it's one of the best. You never know what's going to happen, how the cows will behave, and exactly what you'll need to do with your horse to keep the cows in line. Its anticipation and butterflies, a little [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Normally, it takes one person to lead a pony, but as you can see from the above photo, it takes at least three when the cousins come to town. The more hands on the lead rope the better. Some of the best parts of farming are when family or friends come to visit. Everything that [...]
The air this morning was cool, like sipping from a fresh mountain stream every time I filled my lungs. The trees have exploded with colours, and everywhere you look, sunset tones and hues are splashed over every little growing thing, as if fall chased them down out of the sky to where we can touch [...]
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