Ranch Wife's Slant

Cowboys, kids, and ranch life

Category: Ranch Slants

  • The Scoop on Beef

    A site worth perusing is http://www.beefitswhatsfordinner.com/. I go there a lot for recipes but also for the helpful information it provides about beef  that I can share with people. Beef It’s What’s For Dinner is funded by the Beef Checkoff Program and the website provides helpful beef related information. Besides wonderful recipes, it also provides helpful…

  • ROBB’S is a Steal

      Nothing delights me more than getting away with something, especially when it’s normally really expensive at full price.   ROBB’S is one of my wonderful little secrets and shopping there is like going on a treasure hunt for me. That should indicate that it doesn’t take much to amuse me. Several years ago, I…

  • You Can Have Your Beef and Eat It Too

    I am on a perpetual cooking journey to find new ways to prepare and serve various cuts of beef to my beef-eating carnivores. I try to challenge my limitations; cooking beef 95% of the time and being the frugal ranch wife cook that I am. It’s good to stretch my cooking frame of mind. I…

  • Reading What I Write

    Like other people who are in the business of writing: authors, journalists, poets, bloggers, etc., I try to read other columnist’s work that’s similar to mine. It helps me feel like I’m part of a community; one that pertains to agriculture, humor, and column writing. I read other columnists that inspire me, have a unique voice…

  • What’s Buzzing in the Black Hills?

      If you’re planning a visit to the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota, then you definitely need to sign up to receive the Black Hills Buzz newsletter. Someone was kind enough to add me to Black Hills Buzz’ e-mailing list and whoever it was I want to thank them profusely. While here, you’re going to…

  • Summer Commute

    There’s a reason why we drive beat up little four-wheel drive pickups. Our summertime commute is not full-size pickup, sedan, or new vehicle friendly. Getting to stock tanks on summer range or to salt locations requires using Forest Service roads. The ones we frequent are a little more than a two-lane cow trail. Driving on…

  • What Fairburn, South Dakota Means to Me

    Every summer my husband’s extended family has a family reunion at a different location around the southern Black Hills; usually in one of the small towns where different relatives who volunteered to host, live or once  lived. It’s always held in the summertime, oftentimes around the Fourth of July or Memorial Day.   This year family…

  • The Wordle I Was Looking For

    Last spring my son introduced me to a website that quickly became my new favorite writing distraction. He learned about http://www.wordle.net/ in school; Beautiful Word Clouds. It’s an art gallery of words.  It’s a handy writing tool, and my latest obsession. It’s perfect for me because on some writing days I feel like my draft looks…

  • Time to Change

    This year’s haying season’s been full of changes. We’ve had big and frequent rains, tall, thick forage growth, and a record number of bales on our hay ground compared to the past eight years. During a haying frenzy, my husband and I were trying to get a couple of fields baled before it got too…

  • A Ranchwife’s Poems

    The book club I’m in meets every month, and oftentimes the summer book club gatherings aren’t well attended because people are busy or gone. At July’s meeting, a few of us met along the shore of Stockade Lake, east of Custer just inside Custer State Park. The host for July’s book club meeting chose poetry for our reading selection….