The Mother Ranch Blog

(I love the happy sound of Purple Martins flitting around their house!)

Happy Saturday friends!

How often does a magic pill come along? Not the kind the makes you bigger or smaller like in Alice in ...

Happy Saturday friends!

On Friday I read this from Rebecca Barry (you can find her on Substack by clicking here):

In the car on the way to dialysis I asked my mother what she wanted her death to loo...

Happy Saturday friends!

We’ve finished week two of unpacking and miles to go before we sleep ;-) As things come out of boxes, we cover every available flat surface until night time comes and then I s...

Happy Saturday friends!

Well  months after the January 2nd house fire, we are back in out home. Swimming in boxes but at least home. A super short one, it’s been a week—here it is in photos:

Happy Saturday friends!

Goodness gracious! I’ve been living with this icky feeling of “When is the other shoe going to drop?”, for a week now. Ugh. Well, Friday it did. Luckily B-Rad has a special al...

 Happy Saturday friends!

As with most weeks lately, it’s both happy and sad: we said goodbye to our buck Poppy, and yearling goat Rosemary on Friday. If you remember Rosemary has had an autoimmune di...

Happy Saturday friends!

Before I get started: Women’s Circles: the next circle starts June 18th, contact me if you'd like to join! Wednesday nights, 6-8pm.

All through the week I had ideas on how to...

Our sweet Katy crossed on Saturday, May 4th. She was 74. It was peaceful. I will write more next week 💜

Happy Saturday friends,

Friday was one of those weird days where everything that could go wrong, did. My Aunt Katy (still in the hospital at that time) put in a Whole Foods order that I was going to ...

It’s Saturday friends, 

This week has been heavy. My Aunt Katy’s (Mom’s younger sister) health has taken a turn for the worse. Palliative care for now while she’s in the hospital. Eventually hospice....