Author: Amy
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Sponsor A Ranch Wife
If you are looking for a worthwhile, trustworthy charity to donate to, consider the benefits of sponsoring or donating money to a ranch wife (me and I’m flexible on either method). Since ranch wives don’t get a paycheck, regular days off, or even a safety award for being injury free, accepting charitable donations would be…
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Setting Out the Celebrate Plate
It’s been an eventful week at our house; one of big celebrations. For starters, our fourteen year old son is driving legally now. He’s been driving since he was seven and learned on a stick shift. We let him drive around our place and in the summer, we would let him drive my husband or…
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Motherland
Towns are a lot like mothers. Some towns insist on a neat, tidy, and uncluttered environment with well-groomed yards. Some have stipulations for businesses wanting to remodel or rebuild for the town’s appearance sake. Some communities regularly have buildings getting updated or renovated to restore a town’s original vintage look or a new addition of…
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The OB Ward and Nursing Home Ranch
The problem with deferring replacement heifers too long is that you’re apt to end up with a lot of really old cows and a bunch of young, first time calvers to take care of simultaneously come calving time. Hanging on to cows too long and not incorporating younger cows into the herd gradually, creates more…
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Calving Season Survival Checklist
Prior to calving season, my husband always inventories calving supplies that we need to buy or find. Having everything on hand avoids the stress of discovering in the middle of the night that we don’t have what we need. His checklist includes mostly items like mineral supplements, veterinary, and doctoring supplies, but he tends to…
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Eighth Wonder of the World
Most people aren’t aware that South Dakota has two wonders of the world; Mount Rushmore and our Herford cow Annabelle the eighth wonder of the world. A neighboring rancher told my husband once that a Hereford cow that doesn’t get pinkeye or sunburned udders and doesn’t prolapse is the eighth wonder of the world. Hereford…
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Miracle Wire
For a while, our son was convinced my husband made miracles happen with wire. As a three-year old, he believed baling wire produced miracles because his dad used it a lot and called it miracle wire. The nickname stuck with our son because he witnessed bailing wire saving the day many times when my husband…
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Dreaming of Sleep
Of all of the dreams I want to come true, my current one is that of sleep. When calves showed up in freezing temperatures my husband and I started cow checking at night more consistently. Night checks that can take up to three hours if there are problems have left my husband and I sleep…
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Who’s Running the Show?
Calving season is a challenging time of year for my husband and me to keep up with our kids’ involvement in school, church, and club activities. Obviously, the ones who are running the show around here are the cows we spend most of our time chasing after during calving. Until spring arrives at our place,…
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Eyesore, My Eye!
I can’t imagine life without a clothesline, but evidently some people can’t imagine life with one. I wrongly assumed once that everybody has experienced line-dried clothes and loves the smell of fresh air in their laundry like I do. When I pluck sun-dried laundry off the line, I burry my nose in them; inhaling a…