Red Hat Ladies

Red Hatters liven up CW’s St. Paddy’s Day!

Thought you would enjoy this picture of our visitors today. Ten Red Hat Ladies chose Cream of the West for their bimonthly outing.  Seven “Castle Mountain Red Hats” travelled 60 miles east from White Sulphur Springs, some ”Moore Red Hats” – two to be exact – drove 45 miles south from Moore, [...]

Rompin’ Runaway Rodeo – A Numbers Story

What’s it take to return one 2-day old Romping Runaway to his Moo-ing Mama?

2 cell phone calls
1 text message
2 4–wheelers
1 car
1 tractor
1 spotter
1 messenger
1 seeker
1 Border Collie
1 finder
2 hours

Which adds up to…

One [...]

The Cow Jumped Over The Moon :)

We had a cow jumping over the moon incident last night that I wished I’d captured on camera.  The scene is our corral which has a 10 foot manure mountain in the center of it.   The  cow started  calving outside  and Richard and I were trying to get her into the barn.  She wasn’t having any [...]

University of Montana “Food, Agriculture, and Environment” class

Back in June a group of University of Montana graduate students visited us at the Moe Ranch and Cream of the West. One beautiful rainy evening, the fields refreshingly green, the skies dark and gray, we were treated to yummy, natural ranch-raised beef burgers at Richard and Alicia’s. Blessed with great company, we visited the night [...]

4th Of July

Howdy! I am hoping all of you guys have found yourself well over this 4th of July weekend. The Cream of the West family had an array of events planned for this weekend:  we had our annual 4th of July Rodeo which means the cowboys filled this town in no time; our parade which is always [...]