Ahhh, March. You bring us one month closer to the promise of spring with your wild and unpredictable snow storms, your extreme warmth, your puddles and mud, little bit of rain, thawed out cow plops, cloudy and sunny and then cloudy again skies. All of your personalities keep us on our toes and undecided about [...]
Posts Tagged ‘winter’
Multiple Personality March
Posted in Ranch Life, tagged animals, dogs, Home, horses, life, March, Nature, North Dakota, pets, photography, weather, winter on March 7, 2012 | 6 Comments »
A winter breath in Theodore Roosevelt National Park…
Posted in Community, Musings, tagged adventure, animals, bison, hiking, Home, landscape, life, mule deer, musings, National Park, Nature, North Dakota, photography, photos, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, wilderness, wildlife, winter, writing on February 29, 2012 | 16 Comments »
I took a moment on a regular weekday morning, a morning when much of the state was preparing for one of our first winter storms of the season, to find some magic in the winter. I knew just where to go to find it. A place that was set aside just for us when we [...]
The animals of winter…
Posted in Ranch Life, tagged animals, cattle, dogs, Home, horses, life, musings, Nature, North Dakota, photography, ranch, ranch life, snow, Veeder Ranch, winter on February 27, 2012 | 12 Comments »
Well the wind blew winter in this weekend and I breathed in the frozen air, a kind of sigh of relief that the season didn’t skip us altogether. Nope, the snow and the cold made it just in time to keep us wondering if there will be lions or lambs trotting in for the grand [...]
Are you warm yet?
Posted in Photos, Musings, tagged Veeder Ranch, North Dakota, Nature, ranch, photography, Home, musings, seasons, animals, winter, weather, ranch life on February 10, 2012 | 9 Comments »
Uff da, it’s kinda cold here in Fargo. It’s normal for February, but with all of the 50 degree temperatures we’ve had in January, we’ve been spoiled and confused about what season we’re living in. Which makes today’s -32 windchill feels a little mean. Yes, today in Fargo it’s winter indeed and I am happy [...]
Magic frost…
Posted in Photos, Ranch Life, tagged frost, Home, horses, life, Nature, North Dakota, photography, seasons, Veeder Ranch, winter on February 6, 2012 | 29 Comments »
A glorious weekend settled in here at the ranch, confirming my theory that everything’s better with frosting. So it was my delight to wake up and find that on Saturday morning everything was frosted. Finally. This is my favorite winter weather phenomenon, but with the unseasonably warm temperatures we’ve been enjoying I haven’t seen much [...]
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 [...]
Instigator…Idiot…Pug…
Posted in Pets, tagged adventure, animals, dogs, Home, pets, porcupine, pug, ranch life, Veeder Ranch, winter, writing on January 23, 2012 | 27 Comments »
If I were a pug with one eye I would tread lightly in this world, understanding that my life is hanging on the fact that my remaining eye, well, remains. If I were a pug I would have put pen to paper in my journal to detail each gory detail about how, exactly, I lost [...]
When your nostrils freeze together…
Posted in Ranch Life, tagged Home, humor, life, North Dakota, Veeder Ranch, weather, winter, writing on January 19, 2012 | 12 Comments »
If you live up here where January can be a real bitch sometimes, you’ve probably noticed weirdly familiar things happening to you and the bodies of those around you. I say weirdly familiar because it’s been awhile, but you are suddenly very aware that you’ve felt like this before, sometime, in a frozen land far, [...]
Oh January
Posted in Photos, Poetry, tagged January, life, musings, Nature, New Year, North Dakota, photography, poem, poetry, ranch, Veeder Ranch, winter, writing on January 4, 2012 | 21 Comments »
Oh, January you’ve changed haven’t you? Casting long shadows against gold, green and blue tempting us with light jackets and unlined walking shoes Oh, January…what did you do? To your silky white snow drifts your wind frozen and wild? You used to be reckless, now what are you? Mild? You’re a hot, sultry vixen and [...]
A Cowboy Christmas reminder…
Posted in Ranch Life, tagged North Dakota, ranch, family, photography, writing, Home, life, musings, seasons, winter, weather, Cowboys, holidays, Christmas, ranch life on December 22, 2011 | 13 Comments »
Well, it looks a little like a Charlie Brown Christmas around here, but husband and I did it. We got a tree…or something that looks like it might have come off of a tree somewhere. And it finally smells a little less like the small brown stinky present the pug left on my carpet last [...]
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