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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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 »
Falling out of the sky…
Posted in Adventure, tagged friends, fun, life, Love, skydiving, South Padre Island, vacation, writing on April 6, 2012 | 11 Comments »
So you might have noticed there hasn’t been much news from the ranch lately and I have some explaining to do. See, in the last week the world has kept turning out here, the steers have been grazing, the trees have been budding, the crocuses have been blooming and the dogs have been running away…and so have we. [...]
The boy on the hill…
Posted in Family, Musings, Ranch Life, tagged adventure, childhood, family, father, Home, life, Love, memories, musings, North Dakota, ranch, Veeder Ranch, writing on March 26, 2012 | 14 Comments »
Most Sundays we get together with mom and pops for dinner. After a week of work and crazy schedules followed by a weekend of chores and projects or travel, one of us decides that someone should cook a decent meal, pour some wine in a glass and make us all sit down. I admit, with [...]
The dangerous life of a Handyman’s wife…
Posted in Ranch Life, tagged construction, family, Home building, humor, life, Love, North Dakota, ranch, Veeder Ranch, writing on March 21, 2012 | 15 Comments »
So we’re in the middle of finishing that house that came down the road to our little valley at the end of December. And by finishing, I mean, we’re the ones responsible for the little things…like a floor, doors, steps, a master bedroom/bathroom and, well, a ceiling…pretty much all the basics that one might need [...]
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 [...]
A life (couple days) without dogs…
Posted in Ranch Life, Pets, tagged North Dakota, dogs, writing, life, adventure, animals, pets, pug, humor, ranch life on March 15, 2012 | 8 Comments »
Some days I’m not sure why I bother. Some days I wonder why the things that are supposed to be simple, things that other human people seem to manage properly without much sweat or confusion, don’t come the same kind of easy for me. Some days I wonder how most put-together people go through most [...]
It was a day like this…
Posted in Photos, Poetry, tagged Veeder Ranch, North Dakota, Nature, photos, ranch, poetry, family, writing, Home, life, musings, kids, seasons, pets, weather, fun, spring, ranch life, outdoors 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 [...]
For you child…
Posted in Poetry, tagged childhood, family, Home, Jessie Veeder, life, North Dakota, photos, poetry, Veeder Ranch, writing on March 5, 2012 | 8 Comments »
In this life we’re all made for something Holding tight and letting go Some things they are certain And some things we’ll never know So I wish you singing I wish you laughter I wish you free and running wild I wish you nothing but bright blue skies And warm breezes for you child
If you give a pug a home…
Posted in Pets, tagged dogs, family, humor, life, pets, pugs, ranch life, writing on March 2, 2012 | 6 Comments »
If you give a pug a home he will probably want full reign of your couch to go with it. So you will move over to clear the area for that smooshy nosed, squishy, cuddly animal to lie down next to you. When you’ve helped him to his spot and sufficiently scratched his ears, he [...]
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 [...]
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