This post contains affiliate links, which means we may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you if you make a purchase through these links. We only recommend products we truly love and use ourselves. Some links include a discount for you! The holiday season is one of our favorite times of the year—a season for giving, connecting, and sharing joy with the people who mean the most to us. When it comes to gifts, we believe the…
Thanksgiving is upon us, and when we give thanks for the food on our dinner table, maybe we should include thanks for the for farmers and ranchers that raised and grew our food.
I wish I knew all the miles these chinks have ridden. My dad found them for me at a flea market, so I’ll never know their whole story…so let me share a story of their life with. These chinks kept me warm and protected through the two summers I spent working at Waunita Hot Springs Ranch in Colorado during my college years. Through early morning round ups… Through random snow storms in June… Through getting lost on trails I should…
Listen, I’m definitely not a food blogger. I’m not even a food cooker most days. But this is one of those, if I can do it, so can you recipes! For Christmas with my mom’s family, instead of a full meal and side dishes, we do a variety of appetizers. It’s fun to have variety, and nice to mix it up so we aren’t all eating the same meal over and over at every Christmas get together. This year, I…
I’ve always wanted to go to the Pitzer Ranch Horse Sale. It’s been on my bucket list as long as I can remember. They have two sales every year, one in spring and one in fall. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve printed off the sale catalog and went through circling my favorite horses. Not only have I not entered many rodeos the past several years, I’ve also had some bad luck with horses the last year or…
Most of us in the agriculture world were told multiple times throughout our childhood to “Get back on the horse.” Of course, this didn’t always apply to an actual horse, but anything we failed at – and trust me, I failed a lot – we were encouraged to try again. Now, in my childhood, this also OFTEN applied to an actual horse. I’ll admit, I’ve not thought about this phrase much in recent years, but after getting slapped in the…
I’m what some people may call competitive. (There are several of my coworkers giggling right now at this understatement.) I’m also a perfectionist. These personality traits have their pros and cons. Together, on a good day, they can help me rule the world! But today, I want to talk about one of the cons: fear of failure. I hate to lose. It’s not that I’m a sore loser, I truly try not to be. I am normally super encouraging to…
Yesterday was the first day of Spring. We have been looking forward to Spring for some time now, hoping it will bring with it the pretty weather we have been missing for what seems like forever. When the seasons change, I’m always reminded of what we are told in Ecclesiastes: 3 There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens:2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to…
Follow my blog with Bloglovin It’s January, so of course that means “New Year, New Me!” and “2019 Goals!” posts are all the rage across the blog-o-sphere. And trust me, I’m not here to disappoint. While I’m not about to develop a “new me,” (I’ve been working on this version of me for 30 year, and I like me just fine, thankyouverymuch) I have set some goals for 2019! I have a goal loving personality. I love having something to…
This post may contain affiliate links. This means I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. Let’s face it, it all goes to the animals anyway. Our dog situation is definitely “yours, mine, and ours.” Superman was mine for years, Nellie was Colton’s right after we started dating, and we got Denim two months before we got married. They are our kids. No discussion. But let me justify why that is… They have individual personalities Superman…