Ranch Wife's Slant

Cowboys, kids, and ranch life

Month: May 2009

  • Our Marriage Rulebook

    There’s a reason why it’s been said that marriage is a lot of work. It’s because there’s so many stinking rules! Take my husband and me for example. We both assumed sharing everything was a perk to getting married. He’d get to use all of my guns and I’d get to drive his pickup. Neither…

  • New Job, New Routine

     School gets out this week, but you’d have thought it’s been out for weeks around here. Our kids have already shifted into their summer routine. With the warmer weather, the kids have been spending every evening outside and when they have to go to school in the morning, Pepper is mopey all day until they…

  • Shakin’ Things Up

    Tuesday, May 19, 2009 I’ve always been the kind of person who enjoys new and exciting experiences now and then to shake things up with work; just not too overdone. Last Thursday and Friday I got my quota for new and exciting experiences among a mundane work routine. I went to dole out the last…

  • Glutton for Punishment

    I’m a glutton for self-induced punishment we took in another branding on Saturday and I thoroughly abused my body again wrestling calves. The next morning, I noticed which muscles I hadn’t used in a while, and felt sore from my shoulders to the grip of my hands, to my rear end. Although I’m not sure…

  • Rekindling Branding Day Romance

    The romance between my husband and me began in springtime. We’d only been dating a couple of months by branding season and he introduced me to his family on their branding day. We spent that day, and the rest of those May weekends helping neighbors gather cows to corrals horseback, and wrestling calves together. Our…

  • Branding Day 2009

    Monday lived up to it’s reputable name last week when neighbors stopped by to tell my husband and me that the girls had gone wild and were seen a mile or so away from where they were supposed to be. About thirteen head of those sassy heifer calves found a weak spot in a gate…