I used to dread the job of cleaning – toilets especially. There’s not much worse than reaching around the backside of the ol’ porcelain throne to scrub up pee, or worse, while trying to keep from totally hugging up to
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“Don’t get hard.” When he first said it, I just totally didn’t get it. Why or how could I ever be hardened by this place and life I love? What did that really mean? I had loaded up my car
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I didn’t realize it was holding me back. I’ve always thought of myself as adventurous and trusting in God to take care of me. I mean, I packed up my car at 18 and moved from California to Wyoming without
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Every spring, we raise a new batch of baby chicks to supplement Brad’s parents’ little flock of laying hens. It is so much fun- despite the extra work and lots of dust in the house! Once the weather turns cold
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I didn’t expect to fall in love with Alaska… Brad and I went fishing in Seward about 5 years ago, and I loved it! But I was so cold! And being it was their warmest time of year and I
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Sometime in 2015, we received an email from a group of astronomers from Canada, wondering if they could rent the entire lodge for the Total Solar Eclipse coming in 2017. That was the first we’d heard of this wondrous event that
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While we are excited about every calf born on the ranch– the birth of our first Jersey calf has been highly anticipated since purchasing Shelby’s Milk Cow in December. She was AI’d to a Jersey bull, and we were really
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If you’ve kept up with things around here, you know our daughter, Shelby, asked for a milk cow for Christmas. And we said yes! The hard work is paying off, and we are loving the milk! But, milking would not
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Hey Guys! When we decided to get a milk cow, Cody asked if we were going to have “one of those old one-legged stools”- so you know I had to build one! I built ours using scrap 2×6 and 2×2,
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Living on a ranch, there are always plenty of critters around. We have had a lot of animals around the house, but after turning our barn into a meat shop several years ago- there haven’t been as many right here
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