Ranch Wife's Slant

Cowboys, kids, and ranch life

Category: Ranch Slants

  • Visiting the White House

    Regardless of where you stand with our current Presidential administration, I find it important to know as an American citizen what’s going on at the White House. Did you know the White House has a blog? Every day someone from the Administration posts something. There is also a picture of the day taken and posted…

  • I’m A Cruel Girl

    Actually, being a cruel girl is not my thing, but it is the brand of jeans I like to wear.   The first pair of Cruel Girl jeans I bought didn’t impress me. The denim failed to hold up after a year and I didn’t plan to buy another pair. It wasn’t until I started…

  • Man’s Best Soap

    My most recent column is about Lava soap. I give a humorous perspective on Lava, or man soap as I refer to it in my column. I had originally planned to do a blog post about Lava soap but came up with enough material that I decided to use it for a column. It should…

  • Work Mess Code

    At different times in the past, I held short-lived jobs requiring dress clothes.  Picking out different outfits for inside work was by far, the toughest part of those jobs. Making a decision on slacks and tops everyday was no Sunday picnic for me, and I developed withdrawals from jeans and sweatshirt comfort. That’s why the…

  • Power Trip

    Most guys like muscle cars, but cowboys like muscle pickups four-wheel drives with Cummins, Duramax, or Powerstroke engines. I just like throwing around power. It’s seldom that I get to drive our souped-up pickup; a black Dodge diesel dually. The rare times I do drive it, the trailer’s hooked on to haul kids to rodeos…

  • Medicating with Humor

    I’ve always known about the two cartoon characters Calvin and Hobbes but never took the time to get to know them well until my kids checked out a couple Calvin and Hobbes books from the library. The Calvin and Hobbes comic strip is the work of American cartoonist, Bill Watterson. Calvin’s a typical first grader…

  • Backroads

    I’ve spent my whole life on Black Hills backroads. They’re like home to me. I’m most comfortable driving on them and they’re safer to be on than on any other roads. My driving is less than exemplary on highways. I don’t worry about getting lost on backroads like I do in big cities. I know…

  • Dave Barry’s My Hero

    One of the columnists I read regularly is Dave Barry. He no longer writes a column, but his old classics get delivered to my email’s inbox every week. I signed up to receive Dave’s newsletter from the Miami Herald every Tuesday and I look forward to reading them; especially when I’m struggling to find the…

  • MILK

      Milk is an important part of my grocery budget. We are a huge milk drinking family. I’m sure there are families that drink more milk than we do but we go through at least four gallons a week. My guys especially, drink a lot of milk at every meal. My son prefers whole milk…

  • Kirk Branding Day Dinner Featured on Toque Magazine

    Five and a half months after my family and I had our branding day dinner videotaped for a series called What’s For Dinner America? the final cut was revealed on the cooking site called Toque Magazine on October 14, 2010. The following is the video that I wrote about in my column this week and…