That's right boys and girls, it's time for another tale from the ranch. This episode features chickens. We have approximately 250 chickens on our ranch, of those, four are roosters and the rest are hens. Sometimes the hens get a little aggressive and peck at other chickens, pulling off their feathers. Hence the term henpecked. … Continue reading Henpecked
It's a good thing I'm multi-lingual. I speak English (my native tongue) Spanish, Dog, Horse, Cow, Chicken, and Llama. I am also leaning to speak sheep, but the subjunctive tense is really difficult to grasp! But speaking sheep is for a future post. One morning the dogs were clearly letting me know that there was … Continue reading Foundation
I know you've had them. Don't deny it. And you are so incredibly grateful when it is over. Yes, I'm talking about a whole week full of Mondays! This past week was one of them for me. Every step I took forward, set me five steps further behind. But I did not lose my joy … Continue reading A week of Mondays
A recent blog post of a friend on mine on WP, had some amazing pictures of the full moon and a beautiful prayer. https://bluecollartheologian.blog/2022/08/12/i-see-the-moon/ I too was marveling at the full moon in the night sky, and had recently read this from Robert Fulghum's books, I was on fire when I lay down on it, … Continue reading To the Moon
Here in Colorado, kids are starting to go back to school. So I thought this would be a great time for us to brush up on our English grammar. And it will be short and sweet. A pronoun is any of a small set of words (such as I, she, he, you, it, we, or … Continue reading Grammar Lesson
In October of last year, my husband found an ad for a free Chestnut Morgan mare. He called and the gentleman delivered her to the ranch. He was giving her away because she was now too much trouble. Apparently he took her to a horse ranch to be bred, and the story goes, she was … Continue reading Rescued
You know when you read one of those stories that make you say, “Hey, I want to be just like that when I grow up.” You know because it awakens something inside of you that makes you realize you can be like that right now. You just need bold trust. Please indulge me for the … Continue reading Bold trust
As we celebrate the 4th of July and our independence, I am amazed how far we've come. Here are a few things that happened in the year of 1863. Jan 1 Emancipation Proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln to free slaves in US confederate statesMar 19 Confederate cruiser SS Georgiana destroyed on her maiden voyage with … Continue reading How much further could we go?
Mary Poppins had it right. Just a spoon full of sugar makes the medicine go down. Or as Solomon said in Proverbs 17:22, a cheerful heart is good medicine. I do my best every day to use my gift of encouragement to be that spoon fill of sugar in someone's life. Because face it, sometimes … Continue reading Take your medicine
Once upon a time there was a little chicken, whose name happened to be named Chicken Little. (Go figure.) Well this little chicken was having a bad day. She woke up on the wrong side of the bed, because she worried all night about rising inflation and soaring gas prices. There was no morning coffee … Continue reading The sky is falling!
