by admin | Jan 24, 2020 | Uncategorized
I am guessing that most of you have satellite or cable TV. At the Ranch, we don’t watch much TV. Frankly, we just don’t have time. Because of this, we have always had those small flat indoor antennas on each of our TV’s. They are inexpensive and work reasonably well...
by admin | Jan 17, 2020 | Uncategorized
One thing that we have always felt like the Ranch has been lacking is a way to generate its own power. We are not meaning 100% live off the grid stuff, just something to help with all the costs associated with a ranch. We have three regular refrigerators, four...
by admin | Jan 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
When a baby lamb is born, it is considered a lamb until it is about 12 months old. At that time, most people consider it past the prime of harvest. Typically, a lamb is harvested right around 7-12 months. If you were to butcher later when a lamb is considered a sheep,...
by admin | Dec 27, 2019 | Uncategorized
We hope that you all had a wonderful Christmas this week with your families. We enjoyed a nice holiday at home. This week has been all about working on little things that have fallen through the cracks through the years. We constantly have To-Do Lists going and being...
by admin | Dec 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
In 2014, we moved into our house. We knew there was a small water filtration system on the kitchen sink so that our drinking water was cleaner, but we did not think too much of it until we started living there. The house water that comes from our shared 200+ foot well...
by admin | Dec 6, 2019 | Uncategorized
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,...
by admin | Nov 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Nov 22, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Nov 15, 2019 | Uncategorized
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,...
by admin | Nov 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
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...
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