Over the past several days, friends and family have been arriving in town for the funeral of Marlboro Man’s uncle. Although it’s been a sad week for Marlboro Man’s extended family, ...
Thirty minutes ago, a bull appeared at our back door. This is unusual. Typically, we only have one non-canine/non-feline animal in our yard, and that’s Daisy the Cow. Our ranch horses get in th...
Happy Friday! How are you? Are you taking any prescription medication? (Name that movie.) I have three things to discuss on this fine February day: 1. I just finished planning my upcoming cook...
My younger daughter has become Walter’s person. It happened about three months ago. In my wildest dreams, I can’t imagine why he attached himself to her. I’m su...
Neither Marlboro Man nor I has any desire ever to build a new house. Gutting and re-doing The Lodge a few years ago completely satisfied, probably for a lifetime, any urge either of us might have had...
The title of this post has nothing to do with this post. Except for the jam part. It’s just that eventually, everything comes back to The Sound of Music. Here’s what I sing when I tell my...
We’re just finishing up two weeks of filming some more Food Network shows, and if my posting has seemed a little light, it’s because filming a cooking show on one’s ranch, it turns ...
Josh. He’s filling a syringe with vaccine to give the calves so they won’t contract any respiratory illnesses. Josh is wearing a scarf around his neck known as a wild rag. They come in ma...
Tomorrow’s show on Food Network is, I think, my favorite one so far. That’s because Tony and Bill, Marlboro Man’s two good friends from college, visit the ranch to watch Arizona Sta...
…And the world smiles with you. It takes more muscles to frown than to smile. Turn that frown upside down. Smile – It’s the second best thing you can do with your lips. “A smi...
They’re affectionate. They’re communicative. They lie on their backs and allow me to rub their bellies without instinctively clawing and biting my hand because they’re afraid my han...
If my maternal grandparents had never moved to the town where my paternal grandparents lived, my parents wouldn’t have met. If my parents had never met, they wouldn’t have gotten married....
Kitten and Walter Make the strangest bedfellows Beauty and the beast. Beautiful Kitten Sleeps facing the other way Afraid of dog breath. Walter hears the cli...
A brand new crop of Food Network shows starts Saturday morning, and the show that airs first was filmed back in November. Marlboro Man had a big calf working already scheduled that day and I was goin...
1. I love this calf. It speaks to me. I named him Rebecca. 2. My Food Network show starts back up this Saturday morning. Basically, my primary goal is attempting to become more and more...
The other day, Marlboro Man and the kids had to move a herd of cattle from one pasture to the other. This happens on a ranch for many different reasons, none of which includes: So they can get on the...
We’ve officially become a dog-cat family. This is a remarkable development considering the fact that: * A year-and-a-half ago, we didn’t even own a cat. * Well, technically we did own a c...
We had Hyacinth’s chillins over for a slumber party on New Year’s Eve, and if the chicken strips and eighteen bags of Cuties weren’t enough (and by the way, I have many things to sa...
I saw this sunset outside my kitchen window the other night, and as I’m wont to do whenever I see a dramatic sunset in progress, I dropped everything I was doing, grabbed my camera, and ran out...
I love feeding with Marlboro Man. The weather is cool (sometimes frigid) and we drive along in the toasty feed truck, summoning the cattle by sounding a siren that signals their food has arrived. &nb...
Marlboro Man and I went feeding together on Christmas Eve, and I took approximately one thousand photos of the most beautiful baby calves I’ve ever seen. But that’s not what I’m wri...
Yesterday Marlboro Man and I ran to the big city to shop for his mom and grandma, to pick up a couple of last-minute things for the kids, and to be alone together and have one-on-one conversation wit...
Who knew Christmas week was supposed to be so harried and hectic? Yesterday evening my daughter informed me that my black leggings, which I’d worn all day and around several other people, were ...
My friends Elise and Jaden came to visit for a long weekend with their respective crews, and Friday we all went to work some calves. Charlie immediately attached himself to Elise...
It rained most of the day yesterday so Marlboro Man, the kids and I cleaned out some dark corners of our house. Plus, our kids are growing way too big, way too fast and Marlboro Man wanted to help th...
Boy, oh boy. Oh boy. I’m excited. This is my new cookbook, which I’ve been working on for…ever. Okay, not forever. But for a long, long time. It’s finished now. Well, pretty m...
I love small towns at Christmastime because if you happen to be driving down Main Street on your way to the filling station just after you dropped by the Alco to pick up some Dirty Santa gifts for yo...
1. His Intelligence. Don’t let the ol’ guy fool you; he is absolutely aware of what is going on around him, and he is absolutely in tune to what humans are talking about, even if he’...
Marlboro Man had to sort some cattle a couple of weeks ago. It was a damp, dark, desperately cold morning. The dogs and the cats were smart enough to stay inside. Man, do they have a ni...
Yesterday morning I woke up my daughter at dark-thirty and gently reminded her that she needed to get up and get dressed because the day of her long-awaited tonsillectomy had arrived. She responded b...
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