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 [...]
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 [...]
I might as well grow fur.
Posted in Pets, Ranch Life, tagged animals, dogs, Home, humor, life, outdoors, pets, ranch life, Veeder Ranch on April 27, 2012 | 9 Comments »
I live in a barnyard. Literally. I can walk out my door and, if I forget to look down, I will more than likely step in horse poop. I can watch the steers graze from my bathroom window while I brush my teeth. There’s more gravel and mud in my entryway than there is out [...]
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 [...]
It was a day like this…
Posted in Photos, Poetry, tagged family, fun, Home, kids, life, musings, Nature, North Dakota, outdoors, pets, photos, poetry, ranch, ranch life, seasons, spring, Veeder Ranch, weather, writing on March 12, 2012 | 4 Comments »
It was this kind of day a hug and kiss kind of day a put your pole in a puddle and fish kind of day You ran down the big hill for fun basked in the warm pre-spring sun It was a big stick kind of day a muddy crick kind of day a ketchup [...]
On a green January day…
Posted in Musings, Photos, tagged Home, January, musings, Nature, North Dakota, outdoors, photography, ranch life, seasons, Veeder Ranch, winter, writing on January 30, 2012 | 11 Comments »
Well, we are nearing the end of January and outside my window the sun is trying desperately to peek through the blanket of clouds and I feel, at 45 degrees, at any minute this brown, damp landscape is going to erupt in colors of green and orange and pink and purples. What a weird winter [...]
The list
Posted in Family, Musings, tagged Christmas, family, holidays, Home, life, Love, Marriage, North Dakota, outdoors, photos, ranch, ranch life, Veeder Ranch, winter, writing on December 20, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Christmas is right around the corner. Like, right there. I can see its sparkly ribbons and the ball on its Santa hat from here and I am finding myself a little anxious about the whole thing. I’m saying things like, I’m not ready! I have to bake something! I have to wrap the presents and [...]
It came in with the night….
Posted in Photos, Poetry, tagged cattle, life, Nature, North Dakota, outdoors, photography, photos, poetry, ranch, ranch life, scenery, snow, Veeder Ranch, winter, writing on December 1, 2011 | 21 Comments »
Go find your mittens so your fingers don’t freeze slip on your big boots pull your socks to your knees Dig out your best scarf wrap it round yourself tight the snow has arrived here it came in with the night. I’ll put the roast in the oven and heat the milk on the stove [...]
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