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Tag Archives: horses
That’s the Stuff That a Good Life is Made Of
I don‘t know where the time goes – I hardly write one blog, but another is overdue. I swear I don’t know how I ever had the time to run Grapevine! And here it is, time for another spring round up starting Monday, and it seems to me that it was only yesterday that we finished the last one. … Continue reading
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Tagged bird watching, cattle ranch, cattle roundup, Cave Creek Ranch, desert southwest, dogs, horse riding, horses, hummingbirds, javelina, nature, New Mexico, Portal, ranch life, the cowboy life, Weimeranar
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Living in Close Proximity to Animals
Comanche in the Snow
You are probably all getting fed up with the photographs of snow scenes from sunny Arizona, so I won’t bore you with the latest, excepting the above of Comanche, looking interestingly like a white layered Easter sponge cake. * Since the last blog, we had at least two such surprises, and now I… Continue reading
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Tagged cattle ranch, desert southwest, Grapevine Canyon, horse riding, horses, ranch life, the cowboy life
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Don’t Lose the Purse!
Apparently the less you have to do, the faster the time passes, although I doubt that someone languishing in a prison would feel the same…. Perhaps it’s because my “less to do” is so singularly attractive, after all the years of cramming two week’s activities into one? Whichever way it is, this swift passage of time can be a bit alarming – and it’s not only I who feels this… Continue reading
Long Winter Nights
You know how you should never congratulate yourself on anything?? And remember how I was crowing about our warm winter? Well, take a look . . .
Please click on the images below to see the full size version.
On Danny’s days here, I help him with the feeding, which is a pretty light job, as it consists of driving the Polaris while he… Continue reading
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Tagged cattle ranch, Desert Snow, Grapevine Canyon, horse riding, horses, nature, ranch life, the cowboy life
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Keep Optimistic
I hope you all have a wonderful Christmas and a safe and prosperous New Year. Drive safely, keep warm and, above all, keep optimistic!!
I am about to bring down my little Christmas tree. I bought it some years ago – a miniature little thing, about 2 ft. high, which I stand on my coffee table, already decorated and ready to be plugged in. Very handy – after Christmas… Continue reading
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Tagged desert rains, desert southwest, dogs, Grapevine Canyon, horse riding, horses, ranch life, the cowboy life
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Sarah the Pig, Some Orphaned Calves and Hank the Horse
So – I could make a lot of enemies, and begin this by saying “Hello from sunny, warm Arizona”!
Or I could be pessimistic and talk about global warming, which seems to be more than a myth this year – here it is December, and it still hasn’t frozen. The temperatures are down to the high thirties or low forties – unheard of, this time of year!! The leaves… Continue reading
Philosophically Taking Life as it Comes
So – I can hardly believe it’s been several months since my last communiqué – and you can probably hardly believe you are even reading one – always supposing that there is still someone out there who will be reading it!!
But, in all seriousness, you would not have wanted to be reading anything I would have written in the last couple of months, seeing as it was definitely… Continue reading
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Tagged cattle ranch, Grapevine Canyon, homemade cooking, horses, ranch life, the cowboy life
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“Dally up, dally up”!
Before I get too far into this epistle, take a look at the photo of my two starvelings – “Is it feeding time yet??” Doesn’t that break your heart? They remind me of that character in the Dickens novel (Oliver Twist, wasn’t it?) who, at some meal time or other went up to the front of the refectory holding up his Continue reading
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Tagged calf roping, cattle ranch, halter breaking, horses, roundup
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I Took a Flashlight, and Became the Belle of the Ball
As I said in my blog comment, I have now lots of time to invent new ways of doing things, and, accordingly, we decided to gather the cattle in the North Cochise, drive them to the corral, sort off the heifers which are going to be put into the Grapevine Headquarters – so much grass there, never fully utilized before because of the cross ranch traffic – and then drive… Continue reading
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Tagged cattle roundup, cattle work, horse riding, horses, round-up
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Four white feet – go home without him!
I don’t know what I would do without horses!
For one, I don’t know what I would do with any excess money, always supposing there was such a thing – but, money or not, horses – and dogs – supply that zest for life that seems to be so wanting today. The latest ray of sunshine here is a little bitty piece of equine fluff born to mare Isha… Continue reading