The Mother Ranch Blog

This week we bred Charlotte! That's a fun way to start a newsletter isn't it? Charlotte has been with us a year now and will be a second time mom (first time for us though.) She was bred to Poppy...

Last week I promised to take pictures of the goats I'm going to breed and it seems that's easier said than done. Not the greatest photos so I've added some older ones too. I will post about them as...

Ahhhh spring! It's a late one but it's finally here! Today is 80 degrees and sunny but the mountains are still covered with a blanket of snow—perfection.

For me, spring means I often wake up...

(Just want to see the horse & donkey video? Click here!)

We all know, you can't judge a book by it's cover and yet what do we do all the time?? Argh. When I first saw our Colorado ranch from...

aka finding the gift among the rubble. Living with lots of animals around, we get to experience the "circle of life" every so often and the only way I can manage it is to find the gift. Learning...

Last year, I kept 2 baby goat boys (Poppy and Velvet Kiss) to be bucks. Sweetest, most loving babies ever! Velvet started this spring with putting his paws (hooves!) on me like he used to when he...

I had a funny thought one day, a Ranch Pride Parade :-) Those of you who know Sweetness, know he'd definitely be the one leading that parade and waving the flag—he loves everyone.

Hopefully...

Watercolor, 9x12, available

This painting is from a photo I recently took of Denali's daughters, sisters Sprinkles and Marbles playing on stumps in the goat yard. I always thought the King of the...

Watercolor, 8x10 (sold)

I'm not sure I will ever get enough of these baby goat portraits! The brightness fits their colorful personalities. This is Nettle. She was a 2019 baby at the Mother Ranch....

Watercolor, 9x12, available

After all the animals, I decided to dive in. As a first portrait in watercolor, I'm pretty happy with the results. As always, I see the places I would do things...