It’s Branding Week!

It's branding week! We started preparing early by cleaning the garage yesterday, which is where we will feed the crew.  We had some good slave labor helping get the job done. However, they have banned us from parking on the cement pad until branding is over, which I feel is a fair deal.The rest of …

Cowgirl Chronicles: Blessings Bestowed~

We turned everything out on green rye pasture today, April 28th. It feels amazing, so amazing. We have never stopped feeding hay so early in the spring before. All I can think about is last year. At this point last year, we were bracing for the 2022 Drought 2.0. and all of our cows were …

Gate Girl Haiku~

Eight and sixteen yearsSeventy-six and sunny Boots, spurs and jean shorts XO Megan

The Makings of a Cowgirl~

It's time to saddle up girls.We've got pairs to turn out.Hurry up, put on your boots and spurs.Go catch your horses and saddle up. Mom, my boots are too small.Oh great, right now? Can you wait?No, they hurt my feet.OK, let's go see if we've got a bigger pair downstairs. Let me help you brush …

Things That I Like~

Things that I like, are to hear Sandhill cranes fly over my head in the spring and falland the song of a meadowlark on a summer day the smell of spring in the early morningand lightening bugs flashing late at night in July to see the brome grass dance in a summer breezeand the bluestem …

Just Sit With Me~

"Do you have time for a cup of coffee before you leave?" "Yep, I do." We both need to run. Sitting down for fifteen minutes won't cost us that much, but it seems so. I feel like we need to stop wasting precious daylight and get out the door. We both have business calling our …

Moving Bulls~

One is on a mission to get there.One is slowly poking along.One is trying to turn back.One is trying to start a fight.One is the big hookin' bull.One is the whipped-out bunch quitter.One is wanting to go his own way, andOne is wanting to stop. And when you get there...well, one will be standing in …

Winds of Change~

Winds of change, barrel downmountain slopes and across the plains.Storm clouds blacken the horizon.Bright veins flash, wildly insane. The winds whirl a diabolic charade.A banshee screams her high-pitched wail.The evil one slyly grins with approval,as uncertainty rises without quell The acrid smell of death rides hardatop the tempest's back.Whippin' and a spurrin', fatemobilizes into her …

Ag Update: February 6th, 2024~

The quick rundown: -Foggy. It has been incredibly foggy. Today was the first day we saw the sun rise since last Thursday. If that "90 days from fog" saying holds true, then our branding is going to get rained out. It has been so foggy that I may or may not have walked half a pivot in the wrong …

Ducks and Geese~

Duck and geese chatter filled the night air as we stepped out of the vehicle. What an astonishing sound for the first of February! My thoughts were immediately taken back to the Sandhills, where the plethora of lakes always were overflowing with the sounds of waterfowl. At our home there, we lived in a big house that sat …