The Mother Ranch Blog

Lord. This goat. He was born soooooo pretty, I thought he was a girl and named him Poppy. We quickly realized he was a she but he was still the prettiest, snuggliest baby ever. Soon enough he...

We were out with the horses and donkey and I was having a snuggle with Sweetness. My son looks over at me and starts laughing!

"What??"

"You and Sweetness have the same hair!"

I had him take a...

You guys. A sad thing happened to me a few months ago. I was out doing ranch chores and was backing up our little Kawasaki Mule and I heard this thwump...
Huh. That was a weird sound. I looked...

My horses (and donkey, goats, dogs) are always teaching me lessons. Right now Rayn, Wynter, and Sweetness the mini donkey are on another "boundaries" kick. When I was sitting and writing during my...

Yesterday I saw a sign that said, "Start with yes." and I immediately thought, "Or no."

Sometimes life is hard. Hard, like, death defying hard. Hanging on by your fingernails hard. Brittle smile to...

Journal entry from 11/17/19

Part 1

Oh my Lord. Yesterday was a lot of fun with Bella and the horses until the end. We were walking back with Celita and the big 40” horse ball. The ball was in...

This morning I was taking a shower and, as I often do, feeling a lot of gratitude toward my little private bathroom. I was mentally singing her praises and I thought I would share my silly thoughts...

Speaking of hemp! A storm was on the horizon Wednesday so the farmers were feverishly working to get their hemp cut and put up before the freezing temps. They cut it, stacked it in the field before...

It’s inside the house, outside on the ranch, honestly, whole chunks of Longmont smell like this now!

You’d think, because we are a legalized state that it would actually be pot creating...

Yesterday morning I went out to do chores and found Snickers in raging heat. So, I thought, why not? I put Snickers and Nacho Libre (aka Poppy) together. He bred her twice before I could blink and,...