I have never been so happy in my life to see spring. Everyone has had a hard winter this year, but I had never noticed how excited I was to see spring until this year. Our entire living is based off of grass. Without grass we wouldn’t be able to be ranchers in this part …
Right now Sean and I have successfully raised meat sheep, cows, and pigs. After watching the documentary “Food Inc.” we decided that we would like to try to raise meat chickens since we are not very fond of the way meat chickens are raised. So we decided to split 50 meat chicks with his family …
Ever heard of a packrat? Most of us associate this name immediately with a person who collects way too much stuff and is unwilling to throw anything away. The funny thing is, is that not many people know (or believe) that a packrat is actually an animal; a rat! They are native to the western side of …
The biggest packrat ever! And I’m not talking about a person! Read More »
This week I experienced my first donkey basketball game. When my husband told me that donkey basketball was coming to town, I thought he was joking. I had seen an episode of the Simpsons where donkey basketball was apart of the episode, but I never thought that it was actually something that people did. There …
It might be hard to believe… But some people still heat their house with fire. Fire! The ancient technique of making heat, vastly outnumbered these days by automatic systems that turn on when the temperature of the house falls below a certain point. Wow, that is some great technology and I’m not against it in …
Sean’s family has always been very good friends with the bishop of our diocese (the Baker diocese). Retired Bishop Connolly has a passion for horses and has always owned a couple of horses for pleasure riding, but as he ages it becomes more difficult to take care of the horses and to ride them. As …
Never would’ve thought that a rabbit and sheep would become such good friends.
How big is your ranch, how much acreage do you own, how many cows do you have? If you want to put a big stamp on your face saying, “I don’t know anything about ranching,” then ask a rancher any of these questions, but to save you the embarrassment of either getting an offensive response or getting on the …
When I first came and visited the ranch I noticed there was one essential item that every rancher carried; a pocket knife. Ranchers do everything with knives: they cut twine, use it as a screwdriver, castrate bulls, punch holes in leather, and many other things! The pocket knife doesn’t have to be fancy, in fact …
Recently, Geico came out with a commercial where a pig sticks it head out the window of a car the entire ride home screaming WEEEE . If you haven’t seen it, it’s pretty funny and worth checking out. But for anyone who has raised pigs at any point knows that this commercial is actually pretty …
Did the little pig go wee wee wee all the way home? Read More »