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Awaking on New Years Day 2014 with a light snow cascading down from the sky and the air fresh and clean seemed a good sign to start the new year off. After partying hard on non-alcoholic sparking apple cider, homemade pizza, and a rousing game of monopoly to keep us in lively spirits until midnight the […]
FIFTEEN years ago, today, my first four calves were on the ground. On the ground means freshly born. I was in awe during those eight days. My first experience of birthing livestock had been with sheep in my late teens and a foal from my dad’s horse in my early twenties. Although cows were not […]
Kindness is defined as the quality of being friendly, generous, and considerate. But as I’ve learned this past year the very act of kindness means so much more especially when you are the recipient. Kindness is the quality of sharing gentleness, compassion, and being supportive, both emotionally and physically, motivated by a true aspiration to […]
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 […]