The Mother Ranch Blog

Need to come sit at the pond's edge and decompress? Call me.

It's Saturday friends and my heart feels heavy in my chest. I wonder if you're feeling it too? 

Charlie Kirk was not someone I agreed wit...

Above, a juvenile Great Blue Heron in a successful hunt!

Happy Saturday friends!

One of the things some horse people talk about in annoyed tones is when horses are "herd bound" meaning, they like th...

 Happy Saturday friends!

Well, I thanked the trees for being here and protecting us, and left a heart rock at the base of each and a few hours later I was out walking I Love Lucy when I noticed her d...

Happy Saturday friends!

Guess what today, actually today is? My 56th birthday! We celebrated yesterday at Tikila, a really yummy Mexican restaurant in Knightdale, with Dad, Delores, Uncle Chris, and ...

Happy Saturday friends!

Ohhhh boy, we've made a big decision here on the farm: we are having our big pines out front cut down, along with a maple with a pulpy hole in it, an oak with 2/3 of its base ...

Happy Saturday friends!

It's an odds and ends kind of week, random stories from the farm :-)

The story of the video above: I was just going to take a little nap and as I was falling asleep I heard...

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I’m back to sharing art on Substack again (click here for the newest post)! Earlier this year, a few things stalled me out: a house fire and the recovery of that, the death of...

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It was a good week! A great week in fact! After 3 days of working through the tech (not particularly my forte and I get frustrated quickly when things don't go right) I starte...

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2025 just keeps giving. I had a crazy week since I last wrote and the short version is: I didn't have a stroke. 

YAY! 

On Sunday I woke up feeling a little off. Stressed. Ti...

Above: a quick video of yet another rain storm this week, love hearing that rolling thunder!

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I’ve moved eight times in my life, nine if you count moving back into this house ...