Spring Cleaning With the Family

Our string of six birthdays in eight weeks is over. End of school year plays have been performed. Advancement speeches have been made. And now all the children are home with Mom. Time for spring cleaning. I envisioned all the cleaning taking the first week of summer...

Support The Narrows Project

This is our water. Once it melts we have no way of storing it. That means after the fourth of July, we can’t water our crops. How many of you stop watering your gardens or yards at the height of summer heat? Eighty years ago a plan was established to remedy this...

Spring Pasture

It was a cold, blustery, rainy day. The cowgirls and cowboys saddled their horses amidst pelting rain and gusts of wind. I watched them leave, then stepped into my nice warm house. They herded the cows across sage brush and fields to their new spring pasture green...

Hoop House (Part 2)

Well, it took two more evenings to complete the hoop house. First Nate cut a couple of PVC pipes into two foot lengths and glued them to the other pipes making them longer. Next, he removed the twine from the four posts and replaced it with this. Then we attached...

Hoop House Part 1

I blogged about the grow rack Nate built here. This is what our tomato and pepper starts looked like about two weeks ago. They’re bigger now. Originally, we had planned to transplant them into the hoop house in our garden on May 1. Mother Nature had different...

Branding Calves

It’s that time of year again. The time when we separate the calves from the mama cows. Nate feeds the cows up the chute where others stand ready to receive the calf. These cowboys close the chute and turn it on its side creating a work table. These gals keep...