The Mother Ranch Blog

THE ART:

2 new commissions!

This week I've started working on a new commission of 2 pitbull mixes!

Wondering how a commission works? You email me photos of your heart animals and favorite stories a...

What a fun week of new art, contests, and giveaways! But before I get into all of that, let me tell you a story...

Earlier this week I was hooking all 8 girls to their fence stations for feeding time...

We started off the new year with a bang! THREE inches of rain in 24 hours and then a short bit of snow to end that storm!

So pretty! It had been 70 the day before so it didn't stick.

All that rain mad...

I'm 52 years old and didn't know this! Here's the story:

It was the Wednesday before Christmas. My brother was in town and we were hosting a preChristmas brunch for the fam before Michael went home t...

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 (our...

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 I ...

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 much ear...

(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 the stre...

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 new t...

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 wa...