It’s been wonderful to share the ranch with others this spring as we start to recover from the pandemic.  Relaxing on the deck with good friends, food and wine, and listening to the birds and animals across the verdant valley is a piece of heaven that we haven’t been able to experience for a while.  Slowing down helps us to remember the beauty of our little place and why we are here. The blossoms have carpeted the ground and the days have been sunny and warm.  Spring has been quite dry this year so it may be an early hay cutting.  For the first time we will be able to do all the haying and baling ourselves since we added a mower to our equipment shed. The garden is coming up so fast that we will be eating strawberries a month early!  This winter, we planted about 30 trees, including…

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January 2021 It’s a cold, dreary, dark day at the end of a couple of months of cold, dark and dreary.  Or maybe a year of cold and dreary if…

The weather is cooler, more rain is in the forecast, the pastures are green, and life is getting into synch again.  There is lot’s of work left to do before…

September 2020 – What can I say, it’s been one for the record books.  September started off with dry easterly winds along with some dry lightning.  Major forest fires began…

August 2020 – Well, it’s been quite a year so far.  Social distancing, lack of gatherings with family and friends, no restaurants or movies…It’s nothing that most of you haven’t…

January 4, 2020 It’s a misty morning with the trees silhouetted against the pasture and hills across the valley.  It’s the kind of place that makes you believe in magic…

November 16, 2019 Peter, like most adults with Down Syndrome, is a 21 year old with very firm ideas about his life and his future.  He wants to be independent,…

July 10, 2019 Ten years ago, our 11 year old son, Peter, with Down Syndrome started taking adaptive horse riding lessons in Reno, Nevada.  Today, outside of Eugene Oregon, he…