Tag: cowboys
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Levi’s Lost Calf
Last weekend at the South Dakota Young Farmers and Ranchers conference I finally met journalist, blogger, author, and rancher, Amanda Radke from Mitchell, SD in person. She and I were both speakers at the conference and we had an opportunity to visit a little bit. I have read her articles in the Tri-State Livestock News…
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Christmas Gift Ideas for Cowboys and Ranchers
This Christmas season I want to help those in need. Anybody who has a cowboy or rancher on their Christmas list needs some good gift ideas. With my help maybe shoppers won’t resort to buying the cowboy or rancher on their list another western shirt. We’ll start with their hobbies and interests and what comes…
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Cowboy Shirts That Fit
I can still remember the shirt my husband wore on our first date like it was yesterday. That’s because he was wearing it yesterday. Upon close examination of the long-sleeved western shirts that hang in a cowboy’s closet, one might see how ranching cowboys’ (different from PRCA rodeo cowboys in my opinion) loyalty to things…
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The Cowboy Book
About twelve years ago, before my husband and I moved into the house he grew up in, his dad had an attic cleaning day to clear out what had been stored away for years. My sister-in-law spearheaded the cleaning project and found this book in the attic. She remembered it being one of my husband’s…
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Dress Her Drawers
If you check a cowboy’s drawers, you’re likely to find a pile of silk scarves and bandanas in at least one of them. Cowboys keep their neck warm with silk scarves and use bandanas as hankies or rags. My cowboy gets both types of these simple fabric squares as gifts a lot because they are…
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How to Feed A Branding Crew
Feeding a branding crew is easy. You just have to know what to feed them. The Holy Grail of a branding day dinner is man food—the kind with substance to it and nothing more. No foofy stuff or unidentifiable herbs and ingredients. For starters, when I plan a branding day dinner I don’t get ordinary…
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Cowboy Shirts That Fit
I can still remember the shirt my husband wore on our first date like it was yesterday. That’s because he was wearing it yesterday. Upon close examination of the long-sleeved western shirts that hang in a cowboy’s closet, one might see how ranching cowboys’ (different from PRCA rodeo cowboys in my opinion) loyalty to things…
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Moisture Therapy
Nothing livens up a branding more than a good rain soaker. When moisture arrived, my family was happier, excited and more optimistic, even though it threw a wrench into our branding day.  The large amounts of moisture we got recently made branding a challenge for us but nobody complained about the rain or the mud…