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 Photos, Musings, tagged Wildflowers, Veeder Ranch, North Dakota, Nature, photos, photography, writing, Home, life, musings, seasons, pets, weather, spring, ranch life, outdoors on May 22, 2012 | 1 Comment »
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Victoria’s Secret models don’t get wood ticks…
Posted in Ranch Life, tagged adventure, animals, humor, North Dakota, ranch, ranch life, spring, Veeder Ranch, wilderness, wood ticks on April 9, 2012 | 17 Comments »
Feel it? You do don’t you? That tingling crawling up your bare leg, on the inside of your pants, towards parts of your body you’d rather not mention. You’ve got a creepy feeling, and now that feeling has spread to the back of your neck where you’re sure something is there poking up toward your [...]
Spring is springing…
Posted in Poetry, Ranch Life, tagged crocuses, Home, life, North Dakota, photos, ranch, ranch life, spring, weather, Wildflowers on March 23, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Spring is slowly springing on the ranch and I thought I would send you off into the weekend to enjoy it. Pick yourself some crocuses… Climb to the top of a hill… Count the birds that are finding their way home… Search for green things… Follow the winding, thawing, crisp cold creek… Catch the sunrise… [...]
From the top of the hill…
Posted in Musings, Photos, Ranch Life, tagged Veeder Ranch, North Dakota, Nature, family, horses, photography, writing, Home, life, musings, childhood, memories, ranch life on March 19, 2012 | 13 Comments »
Sometimes, when the day is coming to a slow close and my head is spinning with worry and lists, schedules and a pile of things that must wait until tomorrow and the dishes from a dinner of meat and potatoes sits waiting to be taken care of on the table, I slip on my boots [...]
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