Welcome to Stonehaven Bison Ranch….where the buffalo roam.
We bought 30 chickens around this time last year: 15 buff orpingtons and 15 Rhode Island reds. We were still working on building the chicken coop when we bought them, so we had added incentive to hurry up and get the coop done. We wanted our chickens to be free-range because we liked the idea…
To everything (turn, turn, turn), There is a season (turn, turn, turn), And a time to every purpose, under heaven—Pete Seeger Pete Seeger set Ecclesiastes 3:1-8 (with a few alterations) to music in 1959. The song gained popularity with The Byrds’ 1965 cover. It’s The Byrds’ version that runs through my mind whenever I try…
Periodically throughout the year, the Kansas Buffalo Association has general membership meetings. When we first considered going into the bison business, we attended our first meeting at then-KBA President Ryan Hanna’s ranch. It felt a little awkward just showing up, but we were really glad we went because we learned a lot. It’s not so much…
I grew up in the 60s and 70s. Political correctness hadn’t been invented, yet, and even if it had been, my family would never have bought in to the craze. We didn’t have a lot of extra money, so we didn’t spend much on entertainment. We had to create our own. That meant that if…
Partially finished office bookshelves I live in a construction zone. In fact, I’ve been living in a construction zone since June 2008 when we moved into the house we had built on the ranch. You see, to keep costs down we decided to do all the finish work ourselves. The builder finished the walls through…
My family knows I enjoy jigsaw puzzles. On my last birthday in August, my daughter and son-in-law gave me a 4000-piece world map jigsaw puzzle. 4000-piece world map jigsaw puzzle It’s a beautiful, full-color illustration of the world complete with every country’s flag. It is meant to replace a 1600s reproduction Blaeu map that was…
“We’ve got a long way to go and a short time to get there…”—Jerry Reed from the album East Bound and Down Cross country is one of our favorite high school sports. Our son, Greg, ran and lettered in cross country all four years of high school. Much of his freshman and sophomore years, he…
In early 2016, Kevin decided he wanted to raise chickens. Maybe he had fond memories of gathering eggs on his grandpa’s farm. Whatever the reason, he decided that when Family Center had its annual Chick Days, we were going to get chicks and raise chickens. Of a practical nature, I pointed out that we had no…
Greg’s high school biology class was studying imprinting. That’s where a hatchling latches on to the first thing it sees after breaking out of its shell, thinking that thing is its mother. To bring the lessons home to the students, each was given a duck to take care of and to observe the imprinting process…
You’ve heard the excuse “the dog ate my homework” and probably laughed, knowing that it was just an excuse. But something happened to us that has since made me a believer. Kevin had parked our Toyota outside on the driveway one night instead of putting it in the garage. The weather was warm and not particularly…
