Celebrating Six
☆ April 14, 2013
It’s giveaway time!
Charlie and I had birthdays last week, and in honor of Charlie turning SIX, I’m putting together a Wyoming care package to send off to one of you.
This weather is getting me DOWN, so let’s have some fun. Leave a comment or a link to a funny gif to enter the giveaway, and whoever makes me laugh the longest and hardest will WIN!
Don’t stress – I’m a natural blond, so it doesn’t take much to crack me up. (if you link to a gif, only link to ONE or your comment will get eaten by my spam filter)
Wyoming Tough
☆ April 10, 2013
Just an April (snow) shower.
Don’t pity Frisco ~
I slept with my door open the night of this snow dump.
We’re tough out here.
The story of the gray baby…
☆ April 8, 2013
It’s kind of a convoluted story, so bear with me. Last summer, some friends of ours – a newly married couple – wanted to start ranching and bought three cows, and asked if they could put their cows with ours for the summer so they wouldn’t have to buy a bull. We said of course. They soon found that buying ranch land is a nearly impossible feat, and so we have kept their cows here with us ever since.
One of them is this white cow, a charolais; one of them is the holstein pictured here; and the third is a darling mongrel cow – she’s white with a few black splotches and tiny horns. I’ve named them Blinky, Pinky, and Inky, respectively. They were all bred with our black angus heifer bull, Billy. And Blinky, the white charolais, had this gray calf. Black + White = Gray, who knew!
We have never seen a gray cow or calf before (generally, people who run charolais cows also have charolais bulls), but we believe she will remain gray – it will be so fun to watch her grow up. She’s quite a star around here, already. If our friends decide to throw in the towel, ranch-wise, we’ll most certainly buy these cows and their calves, but in the meantime, we get to live with them. And we don’t need to own them to love them.
Baby Yawn
☆ April 6, 2013
I’m Not Married
☆ April 1, 2013
My favorite comment from this morning’s post, from Amy in AMA: Congratulations…you got us good! :)
Don’t be mad! It was spelled out the whole time; I haven’t changed anything about the post except to bold the first letter of each sentence – scroll down to see. I thought the acrostic made it obvious, but alas, it wasn’t even mentioned until comment 59…. Karin, you and my sister share a name, and you and I share a brain.
I did not expect the responses I got. When the earnest comments started coming in I was like, oh god this is bad. And when they started piling up I was like, oh wow, this is interesting. On many levels.
But the simplest and most obvious thing to be gleaned from the comments is that marriage is a big deal, a wonderful deal. I choose to be unmarried, but it’s pretty awesome to know that if Mike and I should change our minds, we could do it. It’s beyond devastating that there are so many people who want to get married, and deserve to get married, but are prohibited from doing so. Everyone should have the right. I hope one day soon, we will get to celebrate marriage equality.
MY NEW BOOK!
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