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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

   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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

I made a birthday cake for a friend. She loves chocolate and is not a baker so what could be better than a homemade chocolate cake with chocolate icing for a chocolate loving friend? (If you are unsure still, there is a lot of chocolate in this cake.) It was not a success. I have […]

 Edited by Adrienne to add: If you look at the title of this post and the post I posted yesterday… I laughed. We are sisters, after all! This is what I found yesterday when I looked out the window. Dreaming about the day when they will be able to bale hay on their own, I […]

In one week (not this week, I don’t keep up well enough), one little boy went for his first solo ride on a 4-wheeler. He also starting crawling. A couple other little boys enjoyed our version of a swimming pool, aka an old stock trough. Another little boy wasn’t so much into the swimming, but […]

We have free ranging sheep. We also have free ranging chickens, but they are another story for another day… Back to the sheep. They started out as these 2 cute little leppy lambs that my two dear oldest boys named “Mr. Black” (the female, of course) and the other, after “What is that noise that […]