Welcome to Stonehaven Bison Ranch….where the buffalo roam.
We don’t have trash pickup. Lots of our neighbors do, but we have never arranged it. When you live in the country, you can burn whenever you like as long as the fire is contained in a trash barrel or something similar. We went through several steel barrels. They’d start out looking nice and painted….
As I’ve noted before (Construction Zone, Mailboxes, Good Fences), Kevin and I are do-it-yourselfers. As I’ve also noted (Stonehaven), we have a lot of rocks. Every winter, the earth expels more. Some time ago, I got the idea of laying rocks across a particularly mucky area to make it easier to cross in our Ranger….
Buffalo gals, won’t you come out tonight? Come out tonight, Come out tonight? Buffalo gals, won’t you come out tonight, And dance by the light of the moon.—Lyrics by John Hodges, 1844 We were installing cross-fencing in our pastures one weekend, and the day had gotten warm enough that I shed my jacket, leaving it on…
We get a lot of wind in Kansas. In fact, Kansas is the second windiest state in the United States right after Nebraska. Dodge City, Kan., is the windiest city in the country even though Chicago claims the Windy City title. Our house is situated on the top of a hill. Not only do we…
I used to think that creativity was solely the purview of artists and novelists. As I’ve grown older, I have found that is not the case. Examples of creativity surround us. Everything we see and use every day required someone at some point to have come up with a solution to a perceived problem. That’s…
Urban Dictionary defines deer in the headlights as “a mental state of high arousal caused by anxiety, fear, panic, surprise and/or confusion, or substance abuse.” Having been in Toastmasters, I’ve seen a lot of people displaying anxiety, fear, and sometimes panic as they prepare to give a speech, bringing the deer in the headlights visual to…
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…
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…
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…
