Category: Blog

If you cry in the rain will anyone notice? Or do they just think the rain is running down your face? Perhaps if they know you well enough or are just perceptive, they indeed will look into your eyes and see the truth. Pain and sorrow are often hard to hide when someone looks directly…

As I lost the battle of holding the flashlight between my chin and chest this morning in the pitch-black darkness of the wee morning hours I had a moment of blindness. The magnificent beam of the high strength flashlight my son-in-law had given me a few years ago had flicked off when it hit the…

Last autumn (2023) as I walked the hillside pasture my hands floating over the hip high grasses with the smell of Lupine hanging heavy in the air a tear ran down my cheek with the realization there wouldn’t be many more times I would experience this. My cow herd was following me true to fashion….

I started this blog a few years ago but didn’t finish it and it was lost in my writing files. This morning, I ran across it while sorting my writing files. The memory of it is much more humorous now after time has gone by than in the moment of it. If you’re a Granger,…

This season for me has been especially difficult. I have several unfinished blogs about it but am still trying to find the right words to finish them. Hopefully you readers will be patient with me. Early this morning I was out in the barnyard before the sun was up. I was there with my daughter,…

The 2023 Spring calving season did not start or end as predicted. Sometimes I must be reminded that I am not in control at all. That is a tough concept for an organizer and perfectionist such as I. This was the first year we have ever had the cows pregnant checked by bloodwork versus the…

One abnormally warm spring day in 2013 I got off work early and decided it would be a great afternoon for a hike. I could hike the hundred acres around the ranch and check the cows that were grazing in various smaller groups of their choosing. I had cabin fever which was ironic as I…

I felt similarly today as I did in this journal entry from almost seven years ago. Sometimes as a writer you just don’t have the time to sit down and write. It seems that the obstacles outweigh the ability to focus on the many reels of footage rolling through your mind. The grandson’s sing-a-long show,…

Fearless is a big BOLD word. I was reflecting on this yesterday afternoon as I was doing cow chores. I find that being with the cows and observing them I can relate human behavior to cow behavior. I was in the barn loading the ATV with some hay for the bull and pulling some bales…

Once again, this year, it was discovered while removing the bull from the cows during calving season we had forgotten to put hay for him up in the bull pen. Each year it is always a different reason it is forgotten. This year was no different. When hay was brought in, abnormally, months early. The…