My Billings antique store finds: German Dishes by Selfman Weidman. I got 10 plates for $10.95! An adorable deviled egg plate that can function as art when not in use! A really great planter or fruit bowl. It’s ceramic and could be whatever I wanted, really! I also found some ceramic corn on the cob [...]
South Dakota’s High School Rodeo season is set up quite differently than what I experienced growing up as a kid in Texas. Our season lasted the entire school year. Here, it wouldn’t work quite that good, since there’s snow on the ground by Oct/Nov and it’s not usually nice enough to want to be outside [...]
As you all noticed, I was AWOL this week for a couple of days. It’s because I took a trip with my cowboy, out to the Big Sky Country, also known as Montana. He cajoled me into leaving the ranch with a bribe. Wait, it wasn’t really a bribe, more like a trip to the [...]
When Zach kindly took me out of my winter-weather induced cabin fever the other day, I half-way hoped there’d be some colts on the ground when we got there. We didn’t have any colts yet, but we found some fat, happy, mares that are certainly looking like they’re ready to start having babies any moment. [...]
It snowed here on a couple days last week, and I got a little stir crazy! And because I have such a fabulous cowboy, who knows me better than I know myself, he took me out to check the mare herd so we could check for colts! So…I’m sharing the trip… with you! The wind [...]
On the same day that I made my wine-barrel planters, which have now been beat to death by a week’s worth of wind at 45 mph and now snow (yes, it’s snowing as I type this), I planted some geraniums and another “planter” with some petunias. The whole entrance still seems unfinished, and that’s where [...]
One of the many jobs to do here on the ranch is sort horses. Typically we like to sort our horses as yearlings- the boys from the girls- and then we keep the young fillies in a separate pasture from the saddle horses (which will obviously include some young, un-gelded studs), and our riding mares- [...]
Friday here was one of those picture perfect days. And frankly with this wind advisory and gusts that are making the house creak as I type, I’d love for it to be duplicated sooner rather than later. That’s my request, Dear Mother Nature. MKay, thanks. It was so picture perfect in fact, that that is [...]
