The Mother Ranch Blog

Handmade fairy houses, mud, & inappropriate memes!

Feb 04, 2023

Three years! Safe for three whole years! But alas, the plague found us—well, B-Rad anyway. Luckily this house has the perfect setup for covid and he was immediately quarantined. Two hours...

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The Cookie Loving Mini Donkey

Jan 28, 2023
 

One of the things that happens after a family member dies is that the family dynamics change. Everyone is grieving separately and together and often that grief looks different. One person may cry a...

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Do you sing to your dogs too?

Jan 21, 2023

Happy Saturday friends!

Remember how I promised last week that I would have more animal pictures? Starting with the dogs:

Yesterday I got out of bed and when I came back a few minutes later, I Love...

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Winter is for fencing!

Jan 14, 2023

B-Rad and I have been fixing fence this week. Don't ask me why "fixing fence" is the correct term, it just is—even though we all know it's not.  This farm has 40 year old wood fencing...

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The Unicorns are Listening...

Jan 07, 2023

Happy Saturday!

I was gathering together the photos for this post and realized that I've been blogging for fifteen years now! Holy wow! There are actually 5 sprinkled across the internet!

Let's...

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Art that dies on the easel and I'm down to 4 goats!

Dec 31, 2022

It was a busy week here at the farm. I follow someone who calls this week, "Seal Week" where the goal is to loll about in bed, roll over, sleepily blink at the wall and wonder what day it is. Even...

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Have yourself a Mare-y Christmas ā¯¤ļø¸

Dec 24, 2022

Mare-y Christmas! Haaaa! If you know, you know. If you don't...be glad! LOL, I kid! Mares are the best. Yes, they are opinionated in a way that a gelding (a fixed boy) typically isn't and they are...

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Screaming with laughter

Dec 17, 2022

Years ago I figured out how to be less worried about something.

I realized that one of the little things that always annoyed me was seeing pictures of myself. It was a rare occasion that I would...

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The Ugly Stage in Art and Grief

Dec 10, 2022

A couple of weeks ago I started a new painting and as I go through the stages of painting, I’m being reminded in every studio session about “the ugly stage.” The words themselves...

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Organizing as a coping mechanismā€”who knew?

Dec 03, 2022

My Mom's physical body is gone but she's all around me. I don't want to write about it and also I want to write about only it. Which means I do something else. Like organizing a drawer, cleaning a...

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