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Full Moons
Even though a full moon tends to wreak havoc on my sleep, I can’t resist looking admiringly at the moon every month. It doesn’t always look the same and sometimes it’s more beautiful-looking than others. I usually struggle to get enough sleep when the moon’s out but not shorted enough to curse it for keeping…
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Totally Girl FUN!
Sometimes I amaze myself at just how clever I am. Instead of accepting what I can’t have (a sewing/scrapbooking/jewelry-making studio/writing office), I put my creative energies to work to find a way to get what I want. For a long time I have wished for my very own space equivalent to my husband’s shop or…
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Myrtle’s Hot Flashes Get Out of Control
Now that life has somewhat resumed at our place after the Myrtle fire came through and I’ve hooked my computer back up, I can share pictures I took and give an account of how our family was affected by Myrtle. I did not have enough time to get photos of any “flames” or when we…
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Life Lessons I’ve Learned, Picked Up, and Adopted
We’ve all received sage advice, picked up valuable lessons or learned something through our trials and errors. The following is a list of some of mine. There are others that pertain to ranch life, which I’ll save for another day, but these were ones that came to mind right away. What are some of yours?…
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Our Tree of Life
Most of the trees that surround my family and I are pine trees but the deciduous willow tree located north of our house is one of my favorite trees. When I think about home, the sight of our big willow tree is part of that image. After doing a little research, I’ve identified our type…
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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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