Richard and Siri

Richard, my husband, is a late arrival into the cell phone age. Among his many reasons for refusing to use a cell phone were: they don’t float in irrigation ditches; there’s no reception on the ranch; he couldn’t hear on it; and the tiny keyboard didn’t fit his fingers. All that changed when iPhone 4s and Siri entered [...]

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Government “Helicoptering” Creates a Wii Farm Generation!

Along with a roomful of friends and neighbors, I attended the Agriculture Appreciation Days dinner sponsored by the Harlowton Chamber of Commerce. The speaker raised some issues and cited statistics that left us all disheartened. While there were plenty of boots under the table and cowboy hats on the rack at our dinner, we were told [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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