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I’ve been traveling. Though I must say that though this trip to visit my mother and sister is a long one, involving connections and then an hour and a half drive, it was about as flawless and easy as traveling can be during these bizarre times. First off, the La Guardia Airport has done an […]

I am falling woefully behind on blog posts. Life is happening faster than I can write about it. Not that anything earth shattering has happend, but I want to document our days and I guess I'm too busy living life to spend much time on the computer. I probably need to work on balancing things a little better, but I figure I'm not going look back on my life one day and wish I had spent more time

God is good all the time, whether it rains or not, but on Saturday He blessed us with rain. I can hear ya'll now: "Here we go again, another post about the weather!" LOL.I'm sorry, but as ranchers, our life pretty much really does revolve around the weather.After a Sunday morning breakfast omelet, DH and I headed out on a rain run. The rain gauge here at the house just had 0.2" in it, but around

The days are moving too fast for this old gal and I feel like I'm falling behind. I keep taking pictures and I intend to post about the things that fill up our days and then days pile up and things begin to run together. So today you get a quick peek into some of the things that keep me away from the computer.

Even after 35 years of spring babies, I still get excited when calving season begins:                             And I never tire of these sweet faces:DH and I went to feed the 2-yr old heifers a few weeks ago- they are first time mamas:These Corrientes are such good mamas:I took this photo a few years back, but it's one of my favorites and I'm finally having it printed on canvasAnd this year,

Last Tuesday we shipped out the last of the Corrientes. We kept 6 bulls to use on the beef heifers, and a handful of pairs that had calves that were still too small to send, but for all intensive purposes, after 20 years, we are no longer raising Corrientes. I will miss these sweet faces each spring:A little mending took placeA new well pump motor was installedStill flaking out hay:We've never

Whew! We made it through last week and are muddling our way through this week. It broke my heart to have to send another couple hundred hd of cattle down the road, but until it rains...and rains...and rains, we just can't keep 'em. We've still got a few more loads to send out, but these mamas just had babies and we want to wait until the little ones get a few weeks of growing under them before

It seems as if things never really slow down around here. I'm not complaining - it's just life and around here, we're never really off the clock. So many are longing for longer days, but we're up before the sun and don't close out the day until it's dark and even then, we sometimes have to tend to things by headlights and flashlights:And as I get older, I'm pretty pooped at the end of those long

I hope this finds those of you who have been snowed in and iced over, thawed out and plugged in with heat and water again. As storms go, we fared well. We had snow and ice and wind for 5 days and one morning with rolling power outages, but not a big deal. We have a gas stove, lanterns, and plenty of quilts.

I know so much of the country is currently experiencing frigid weather. Around here, cold mornings call for Steel Cut Oats with apples for breakfast:And while they were cooking, I put a new recipe our girl shared with me, together in the Crock-pot - Yum! (yes, I'll post it soon and no, I haven't forgotten about the other recipe I promised)

To say I've enjoyed being home would be an understatement. It's been SO good to be home! We've been busy, but  our days are filled with blessings. Here's a recap of our week. I didn't intend for this post to be so long, but try as I might, I can't seem to get a quick daily post written so you get it all at once. Sorry! Just know this did not all take place on one day. We're busy, but not THAT

We sold more cows and weaned some calves this week. That means I had mouths to feed. DH is taking pity on me and we're foregoing breakfast for the crew, but my feet still hit the floor at 4 a.m. on Thursday. By 6, the Sour Cream Apple Squares were out of the oven and the Crock-pot Pizza was ready to do it's thing in the Crockpot:. All I had left to do was make bread, a big salad. and green beans

 Saturday we were up and out the door at 4 a.m. for a 2 hour road trip for this:

It's the Clovis horse sale (Clovis is in New Mexico), but earlier this year the sale moved to Texas:

DH was in search of a colt:

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And we've expanded the family by one:

He's just a yearling so lots of ground work in his future

So, I've been back in the kitchen again this week. We're weaning the Corrientes. The weather's been amazing...30's and 40's in the mornings and 70's and 80's in the afternoons. I've been cooking with the windows flung open (Yes, even in the morning because my little kitchen gets HOT) and sneaking out of the kitchen whenever I am able. I placed a pick-up order from Walmart for Monday after work -

DH had an elk hunt this past weekend. He really enjoys hunting and we always look forward to adding to our winter meat supply, but it's like passing an act of Congress for him to get away and this time of the year is especially difficult and he's already plumb wore out. We're in the middle of our fall Cow Works. We just finished most of the beef cattle - still have some in December and we'll be

I wanted to sneak away for a little while on Thursday to take pictures so I hustled to make cookies (the 9x13 pan is a Honey Bun Cake) before the boys showed up for breakfast:On Thursday, they were preg checking some cows. Our vet, Dr. Blach, spends the morning at the back-end of 180 cows:I sent him and his tech home with baggies of cookies:Sorry gal - if we had grass, we'd keep you and you

Another busy week here on the ranch. The pens would soon be filled with bawling calves and in preparation, DH and I cleaned out water troughs last Sunday afternoon:Another ranch-wife workout:And more fish were transferred as DH was adding medicine to the waterWe weaned the beef calves on Tuesday. I spent most of the week in the kitchen while the boys gathered and cut the calves from their mamas.

On Good Friday (Yes, it's taken me this long to publish this post), DH and I loaded a couple of horses and trailered just east of the ranch to Mescalaro Sands, an off road recreation area just 4 miles from our eastern border. It's a great place for him to work fresh horses. He hadn't ridden these two since last fall and we're fixing to get busy with Spring Works. If you think about how much

Last Fall we bought this sweet little stud colt. His name is Shooter's Little Joe. DH has 6 personal horses right now, plus 4 ranch horses. He's hoping to buy a colt each year in order to keep a good string of horses under him. There's a lot of work that goes into making a good ranch horse. And let me just say that I am no horseman. I took a colt starting class in college and that is the

There are so many wonderful aspects to living where we live. Fresh green chile: Brilliant blue, sunny skies over 320 days a year: Crisp, fresh air that invigorates your soul and makes you want to breath in deeper Wide open spaces Breathtaking views Room to explore: And one not so wonderful aspect. Some years they are worse than others. This year is a worse one.