Guest post by Alex. The boys love feeding cows. The two older boys are getting big enough now that they are actually able to kick off hay when we are feeding small square bales. They are oh so happy to actually do Matthew’s job and have Matthew drive for them in the field rather than […]
About Alexandra
Puppies, curtains, worms, and dropped balls.
My sister sent me this post months ago. Like 2 months ago. When I switched my blog host, posting became far more complicated for my, love her, but technologically challenged dear sister. So I would log into her account and post them for her. But. I got busy. And her post sat in my inbox. […]
Guest post from Alex: Boys being… boys, I suppose.
A boy loves his dogs. Tell (1) thinks that they should go everywhere with him and be able to do anything, but doesn’t understand why the puppies would eat his sandwiches every time he gives them half a chance. We got a new book the other day and so I made the boys green […]
Foreign food objects: guest post by Alexandra
Sister has (very gently & kindly) *requested* blog posts from me. Apparently one or two posts a year was not quite what she had in mind when she invited me to contribute to her blog! (Adrienne’s edit: In all honesty, I want to read what she has to write! We live 1,500 miles away. I […]
Muddy times
Guest post by Alexandra… Our part of the world has been pretty dry this winter. Not much rain and not much snow, until last week. It rained for a day and a half and then snowed for an entire night. For what is called the high desert, 1 1/2 inches of rain and another 2 […]
Blurry lines…
Guest post by Alexandra… I don’t allow the cats on the beds or the couch. They get put outside if I catch them on said furniture. With the weather turning so cold, they have decided that this lesson is worth learning. They curl up on the boys little chairs, any clothes or blankets that have […]
Routines on the ranch
Guest post by Alexandra… Gus and Brent are learning the days of the week and the months of the year. December and January are the beginning and the end and they have several important birthdays. February and March is when the cows are calving. April cows are going out on the mountain. May is branding […]
Facts of Life (by Alexandra)
Gus helped his dad ride through the weaned calves checking for sick ones yesterday. The boys have a pretty impressive understanding of how life goes. They have watched calves being born when it is calving season. All mother’s make milk for their babies, but during the weaning process they know that the calves no […]
Mornin’!
Gus is not my early riser out the bunch, so when he was the 1st one up the other day and it happened to be the day I tried to sleep in, he wasn’t impressed. I drug myself to the coffee pot at 6am to see him dancing to the radio in the living room. […]
Cats
We have barn cats. Very wild barn cats. The boys weren’t even sure what a cat was because they had never really seen one. So we got a couple cats. One of them disappeared 3 days after we brought him home. We think the owl that has been lusting after my chickens got him. We […]