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Tag Archives: the cowboy life
SHADES OF MY BLUE HEIFER…
Having a herd of cows can cause you some worries, like when it doesn’t rain, or when they climb through the fences and take up camping six miles away on the local golf course, or at any one of a million other times – but sometimes they sure give you a good laugh!
Our first time heifers have begun to calve… Continue reading
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Tagged cattle ranch, Grapevine Canyon, guest ranch, horse riding, horses, round-up, the cowboy life, trail ride, trail riding
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Games Animals Play
I think I mentioned before that I have now inherited the bookkeeper’s job at Grapevine, as well as doing the books for the cattle ranch, and that sure keeps me busy! I had forgotten just how much fiddling around there is to bookkeeping, and more so since Quick Books had deemed it necessary to make their program more efficient by making it more complicated! At the cattle ranch I have… Continue reading
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Tagged cattle ranch, Grapevine Canyon, guest ranch, horse riding, horses, Pinos Altos, ranch life, round-up, the cowboy life
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The busier I am, the behinder I get
It seems that, as some character in a comic strip once said, the busier I am, the behinder I get!!
The last of the calves were shipped, following the September round up, and I must say that for once we were not too unhappy with the price – the only miserable thing was that the heifers, which looked so good, went for a much lower price than the steers… Continue reading
Posted in Horse of the Week, Latest News
Tagged desert rains, Grapevine Canyon, guest ranch, horse riding, horses, Martin Clunes, ranch life, the cowboy life
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Animals With Reason
Those of you who have recently seen our home page will have seen the YouTube segment on the ITV1 segment of Martin Clunes’ most recent series about the relationship of man and horse. The segment was made here some months ago, and I remember it as a great few days spent with truly charming people. Martin, though a big star, was the easiest person to be with, and the whole… Continue reading
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Tagged Grapevine Canyon, guest ranch, horse riding, horses, Martin Clunes, nature, ranch life, the cowboy life, trail ride, trail riding
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Ah, those Indian Cows!
You are likely quite sick of hearing about our green grass, but as a final comment on it, let me just say that we had the summer round up a whole month later than we should have had it because of the muddy corrals, and, because of the delay and the rains, the late calves we branded were probably 100 lbs heavier than we had expected. Not a bad problem to have, of course, except that the little bulls were far too developed to be castrated, and so will have to be sold, when the brands dry up, in October, as bulls instead of steers – so generating a lower price. There is always a drawback, it seems! But even as I sit here writing this, the ones we sent off this week are probably being loaded onto the buyers’ trucks in Willcox, and on Tuesday we will get the check and see just exactly what they brought. Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona History, cattle ranch, desert rains, desert southwest, dogs, Grapevine Canyon, guest ranch, horse riding, horses, ranch life, round-up, the cowboy life
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What’s In a Name?
I’ve been sitting here, thinking over the years that I have been at Grapevine, and my mind went back to our very first guests. They were a young couple from Switzerland, by name of Annie and Urs, and they were touring around the USA. They stopped in here for a few days, we had a great time with them, and they left. When they checked out, they paid with a… Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona History, Grapevine Canyon, guest ranch, horse riding, horses, ranch life, the cowboy life, trail ride
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Old Camp Rucker
All this talk of border crossings has made me think of a wonderful book called “Cowman’s Wife”, written in the 1940’s by Mary Rak. It’s the story of her husband and herself ranching in the remote Rucker Canyon of the Chiricahua Mountains. They bought the ranch sometime in the 1920’s but it already had a rich and varied history.
In 1878 it was the site of a military supply… Continue reading
It’s For Your Own Good!
Those of you who have been reading the Comments from the Corral may have been wondering at the relatively long silence from that voluble quarter – the reason being that I have had a bout of horse health problems – but please notice!! Your favorite horses are back and talking, so check it out, under the “Stay Connected” tab on the home page.
So to the health problems – my beloved, grumpy, but lovable Tequila suddenly developed a lumpy, scaly, nasty patch on an unmentionable part of his anatomy. I took him to our local vet, who diagnosed squamous cell carcinoma and said that he couldn’t treat it, it would have to be the horse hospital. So off we went to our special, much respected veterinarian at the equine hospital in Tucson, who confirmed the diagnosis and said that before he could do anything, Tequila would have to get rid of the sand currently sloshing around in his large intestine. As there are about 100 ft. of this intestine, you can imagine that quite a lot of sand can be carried in there, with the nasty potential of a blockage, and a painful attack of colic – horrid thought. So this naturally panicked me – I took him home again (and, as it’s a two hour drive to the place, this was a four hour trip) and we set out on a regimen of getting Tequila to eat psyllium pellets. Continue reading
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Tagged City Slickers, Grapevine Canyon, guest ranch, horse riding, horses, paint horse, palomino, ranch life, the cowboy life, trail ride, trail riding
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Golfing Bulls, Appaloosas & Garden Snakes
I know I talked about the round up last time, but I thought I would share a couple of photos taken by Kristin – these gals don’t look as if they want to be friends any time soon!!
Following round up, two of our bulls decided they’d had all the fun they could stand here at the ranch, and they headed north. Somehow the fence at the northern boundary had got loosened, and they hopped through it, and made for Cochise. Luckily someone saw them, read the brand, called us, and we got them back home. It brought home the reason why it is illegal, in Arizona, to turn out cattle without a brand – it sure makes for good friends and neighbors! Continue reading
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Tagged Apache Reservation, Appaloosa, Arizona History, Grapevine Canyon, guest ranch, horse riding, horses, Palouse River, ranch life, round-up, the cowboy life
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The Piñata Tree
I guess when you live in a place where time stands still – and I hear it does that, for the guests – then, by a law of nature, it has to speed up for the rest of us, right?? Because for me, it sure flies – I can hardly believe that round up is over, the calves are with their moms on the Flats east of the headquarters, and… Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona History, Grapevine Canyon, guest ranch, horse riding, horses, pinata tree, round-up, the cowboy life, trail ride, trail riding
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