Roxy and Bobby returned home this week. For Christmas, you might say. And indeed, they have, although they likely haven't a clue about the significance of the 25th of December. It's because the equine brain isn't founded on watches and calendars. Instead, they build extensive maps made 3 …
When King Quits Crown
Dear Friends "Push me up!" Susan scowled from her perch, halfway up the ladder to the high seat on the hay wagon. She was fairly heavy, and her skin-tight oversize western jeans created a fairly intimidating view of her backside, hanging precariously in mid-air. She was stuck there and couldn't …
The Lost Great Pyrenees
It was a cold mid-December day when Allie and her best friend and border collie, Clyde, made a run for it. They occasionally do, just exploring the river bottoms adjacent to the big pastures on the Alderspring prairie where our beeves run herd for the winter. They ran off like Mutt and Jeff, big, …
Small Town Christmas
"I think the biggest problem was that I wasn't even able to get up on stage to perform last year. I was thinking they lost faith in me. You see, I was clear up on the range in the mountains turning off a water tank that we had forgotten about for the winter." Parker looked over at me, hoping I …
On Gratitude
Dear Friends A light snow drifts down from an opaque grey sky over the ranch today. It's quiet outside. Not a vehicle sound, or even a tractor can be heard in our rural valley. In the light snow, not a bird or coyote calls. The usually murmuring river has hushed in the buffering effect of the …
On Good Horses
Glenn and Caryl headed down to Albuquerque, New Mexico this week. There, at the Quivara Coalition 2019 Regenerate Conference, Glenn presented on "Nurturing Health from the Ground Up" in collaboration with renowned grazing researcher and author Fred Provenza. They've been having a great time at this …