Welcome to Stonehaven Bison Ranch….where the buffalo roam.
The best-laid schemes o’ mice and men gang aft agley.—from “To a Mouse” by Robert Burns There’s always work to be done on the farm. Kevin and I frequently start the day by asking each other, “What do you want to do today?” Recently, the plan of the day included reconstructing the corral that we…
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….
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…
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…
