Good Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. We do have one kinda runny nose on the ranch right now, but you read that correctly I want to talk about catching the cold, not catching a cold. We recently made national news as our great state plummeted into the deep freeze and…
Read MoreGood Monday Morning to all you critter and land loving folks. Hand-me-downs…I love them! You name it, I am excited to see them coming. As my kids have grown up, they have stayed dressed because others have blessed us with good ol’ hand-me-downs. When you stop to consider other types of hand-me-downs, they are pretty…
Read MoreGood Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. Welcome to a new year, a time when many have high hopes for things to come. I want to start this fresh season off with two things: a thank you, and a challenge to us all. The thank you is to all of you…
Read MoreGood Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. It has been a blur of a two weeks, and I am not sure what to pick out to share, and what to let slip by. I have seen many inspirational posts lately regarding calving season and surviving it in the rotten weather that…
Read MoreGood Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. We have been super blessed with moisture so far this spring, and I think that officially means it is mud season for many of us! Makes for interesting days, and some dirty kids, but they love it, and it washes. The Conry ranch is…
Read MoreGood Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. Chores and night checking is what our days and nights have been filled with this past week. We have been keeping close tabs on our Jersey heifer at our house as we were both sure she was starting to bag up over the past…
Read MoreGood Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. I missed our time last week as we were tucked in waiting a big snow storm, and the thought of venturing out to town to get the computer we had left at work was one, no one wanted to act on. We thankfully missed…
Read MoreGood Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. My mom found some of my old school papers this last week, and as it turns out I have been writing about nothing but cows since I was eight. One of my stories was about our beloved bottle calf Dolly. And how she was…
Read MoreGood Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. I have wondered several times this week as I trekked out to milk if my Grandpa would have gotten a chuckle out of my ambitions. He owned a dairy, and as my dad would claim Grandpa was ahead of the system as it was…
Read MoreGood Monday morning to all you critter and land loving folks. This past week Conry cows came home, getting ready for babies to arrive in just a few short weeks. Almost sounds like spring, and on that note it decided to dump snow all week, making it a juggle to get those mommas home. They…
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