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Thanksgiving Week Filled with Canning

The week of Thanksgiving, Greg typically takes off from work and focuses on harvesting turkeys and a few canning projects. This year, he processed 31 turkeys for customers, our 13 turkeys that we kept for ourselves, canned four different bulk bags of beans (pinto,...

Turkey Harvest

I hope everyone had a GREAT Thanksgiving!! This last weekend, we had a wonderful volunteer turn-out and got through harvesting 44 turkeys, 12 chickens, and 9 roosters in record time. We started about 6:00 AM getting things set up. It was dark and COLD… about 28...

Walk-in Refrigerator

About three weeks ago, we got a call from a friend who found an old walk-in refrigerator on Offer Up for FREE. Of course, Greg was interested! He’s been looking into walk-in coolers for the Ranch for a couple of years now. The story behind it was an older lady ran a...

Unexpected Obstacles

How many times have you started a project and you come across something unexpectedly?  You need another part that you didn’t plan for. Or, after you have finished, it doesn’t work as you expected? Well, in the last couple of weeks, we have had a big unexpected,...

Escape Stories

There are many things around the ranch that are unexpected. One thing that always brings an adrenaline rush to Greg and me is when an animal gets out. It happens more than it should, and we have several crazy stories about it. So, to give you a few laughs, here are a...