Month: June 2012
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One of My Favorite Summer Perks
One of the advantages of living at an elevation of 5,300 feet in the Black Hills of South Dakota is that we have cooler nighttime temperatures and very little humidity. (That can be good and bad though–we joke we live in “the high desert.”) We can get away with living without air conditioning most of…
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Tourists That Drop Out of the Sky
There’s more than one way to see the Black Hills. You can of course, drive through it by car or RV, but you can also hike it, bike it, horseback ride it, or get up a little higher and see it from a hot air balloon. During the summer, it is not uncommon to see…
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Cutoffs
Shorts made from cutting off the pant legs are the quintessential country girl’s style. I love my cutoff shorts. Whenever I’m not doing ranch-related work that requires wearing jeans, I like to wear cutoff shorts rather than store-bought ones. I prefer cutoffs because they were formerly my comfortable and favorite jeans and I can…
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My Morning View Over Coffee
I love it out here first thing in the morning. It’s kind of a sanctuary where I like to come and absorb nature while I have my coffee. The air is fresh and crisp and damp. I like the way it smells; earthy, sweet, and damp. Every morning, usually around 6 or 6:30 a.m., I head…
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Meet #1594
This is our newest bull that replaces one that went MIA last fall out on our Forest Service lease. After we moved cows back home up by Pringle last fall, we spent a lot of time checking the tanks, salt spots and popular herd hangouts hoping to find our missing bull but we nor did the…