The days are warm and the nights are cool. Perfect conditions for turning the pastureland around us green after a long, brown, cold winter.
Limited internet and severe weather created a perfect storm when the kids saw a weather report for the first time. We left Colorado just two days before the start of the new school year. We had not yet closed on our ranch, so we moved in with Grampa Brown while we waited on the bank.…
Directions. Culverts. Hollers. As far as the crow flies. Turn left where the old oak tree was. I’m lost. Growing up in Denver did me little favor when it comes to knowing my directions. On the Colorado Front Range, the Mountains are West. Once you learn that, it is pretty easy to find your way…
“Giving up on your goal because of one setback is like slashing your other three tires because you got a flat.” One of the thrills, and some of the hardest months, of owning cattle is calving season. Most ranchers, depending on the size of their herd, will have calves in the fall and then again…