We’ve had a couple beautiful days at the ranch lately. Things are starting to blossom up around here, making way for the butterflies and bees and bugs. The birds have found their way home and so have the pair of geese that live in the dam outside our new house. I’ve been spending my evenings strolling [...]
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If I could be a season…
Posted in Musings, Photos, tagged Home, life, musings, Nature, North Dakota, outdoors, pets, photography, photos, ranch life, seasons, spring, Veeder Ranch, weather, Wildflowers, writing on May 22, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
If I could pick a prairie bouquet…
Posted in Photos, Poetry, tagged animals, Home, Nature, North Dakota, outdoors, photography, poetry, Veeder Ranch, wilderness, Wildflowers, writing on May 14, 2012 | 19 Comments »
If I could pick for you a bouquet from the windswept hills of spring, from under budding oak groves, and along the babbling creek… I’d pick you bluebells for your table, and sweet peas for your mom, the mist from early mornings, a meadowlark’s sweet song. I’d throw in green, green grasses and the chokecherry’s [...]
The Steers vs. Pops vs. The Brush
Posted in Ranch Life, tagged adventure, animals, family, Home, horseback riding, horses, humor, life, North Dakota, ranch life, Veeder Ranch, writing on May 10, 2012 | 7 Comments »
I think it’s time I address some things that have been making an appearance in my stories, walking past my camera lens, stomping at the pug, pooping in my yard, leaning up against the house and looking in my windows… Yes, it’s time I explain…these guys. There are five of them out here on this [...]
Paddlefishing. Who said Rednecks aren’t fancy?
Posted in Adventure, Community, tagged adventure, family, fishing, friends, Home, humor, life, Nature, North Dakota, outdoors, paddlefishing, writing on May 7, 2012 | 11 Comments »
Oh, the river. So calm, so peaceful. So beautiful and serene. Take a look at this scene and you would never guess that during the first week of May the shore is filled with hundreds of rednecks, grilling bratwurst, pitching tents, sporting camouflage, making small talk and casting their fishing poles and hooks into the [...]
A good day to be a horse
Posted in Musings, Ranch Life, tagged animals, Home, horses, life, musing, Nature, North Dakota, outdoors, photography, ranch life, Veeder Ranch, weather, writing on May 3, 2012 | 9 Comments »
I like it when the clouds do this. It makes me feel like I am not so small after all, like I could reach up and pluck one out of the sky, put it on an ice cream cone and go walking through the pastures, taking licks and bites of the sweet fluff as I [...]
Words and music and getting it down
Posted in Music, tagged family, guitars, Home, Jessie Veeder music, life, Love, Makoche Recording Company, memories, music, North Dakota, nostalgia, writing on May 1, 2012 | 12 Comments »
When I was ten years old Pops gave me a hard covered journal that he pulled out of the basement of his parent’s house. He retrieved it from a bookshelf and handed it to his middle daughter, the one who would scribble poems about dogs and horses and big prairie skies on notebook paper. He [...]
To live with passion.
Posted in Musings, Ranch Life, tagged family, Home, lessons, life, Love, North Dakota, ranch, ranch life, Veeder Ranch, work, writing on April 25, 2012 | 11 Comments »
Last night husband came home to the little ranch house in the buttes to find a woman hunched over, knees to her chest, pointing and clicking and squinting behind a giant computer screen. He thought he heard her mumbling, so he said hello back, in case she might be attempting to greet him. She wasn’t. [...]
Flannel shirts and wild plum blossoms
Posted in Musings, Photos, Ranch Life, tagged family, Home, horses, life, Love, memories, Nature, North Dakota, nostalgia, outdoors, photography, ranch life, seasons, spring, Veeder Ranch, writing on April 23, 2012 | 9 Comments »
When I grow up I want to be the kind of woman who lets her hair grow long and wild and silver. When I’m grown I hope I remember to keep my flannel shirts draped over chairs, hanging in the entryway and sitting on the seat of the pickup where they are ready and waiting [...]
Inside Old Houses
Posted in Community, Musings, tagged change, community, Home, life, musings, North Dakota, old houses, photography, ranch life, writing on April 16, 2012 | 19 Comments »
We live on gravel roads that stretch like ribbons along pasture land dotted with black cattle and a patchwork quilt of grasses and crops. As we kick up dust beneath our pickup tires heading out to a chore or to meet up with a neighbor, we take for granted how these roads were built. Why [...]
If I weren’t these things…
Posted in Family, Music, Musings, tagged family, Home, Jessie Veeder, life, Love, music, musings, North Dakota, ranch, Veeder Ranch, writing on April 12, 2012 | 4 Comments »
I sit on the love seat in the back room of my parent’s house. It’s 9:30 on a Wednesday evening. I’ve finished my slice of pizza. My mother brought it home from town. I’ve had my glass of wine and we’ve had our visit about the weather and the traffic and the pizza and the [...]
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