Happy Monday

Christmas in July.. or Colorado fall at least.

Christmas in July.. or Colorado fall at least.

It’s about this time of year I start wondering if I am going to Elk camp again. Understand, I am not supposed to go. Women aren’t invited. But since it’s the place of Jake’s homegoing and life has taken the uncles and friends to different starting points towards that Colorado mecca since Jake went to [More]

The Farm

What is a Crab Spider?

What is a Crab Spider?
When you live or work or play on a farm, its the constancy of nature’s dynamics that gets to you. What I mean to say is, nothing the same any day I go out to the farm, and yet its always about [More]

Angus Beef

We raise prime Angus Beef cattle. We are committed to responsible husbandry and specialize in healthy, hormone free animals. [More]

Coccinellidae

Coccinellidae
Strange the things you don’t know… like where in the heck do ladybugs go when they aren’t eating the aphids off your summer plants and garden? (Coccinellidae is their, um serious, [More]

Before and After #2

Before and After #2
The Kitchen looked like this: Please note the brown paneling and the yellow linoleum, two very popular items.. in hmm.. about the 60′s .. I should know, we had them in our house in [More]

Come on in…

Come on in…
Old houses, before there were utility rooms, had a windowed room, just about big enough to put an old washtub or if you had a lot of money, a ringer washing machine. In our old farm house, being from [More]

Mon Ami, Mi Madre

Look Before You Lock

Look Before You Lock

As temperatures start to rise this summer, I see constant reminders of how dangerous it is to leave your child inside a car unattended.  Article after gut wrenching article of the most devoted and [More]

Start a Baby Blog!

Start a Baby Blog!

Baby books are out, blogging is in! Blog about every single event in your child’s life, no matter how big or small. There are many benefits to blogging: All your memories are housed in one location [More]

Handsome Cowboy

Garrett

Garrett

This guy has stolen my heart. Really. I first met him about 6 months ago. He came riding up to the fence on his bicycle, that separates his Grandaddy’s property from our farm. I am a sucker for [More]

Armando Galarraga

Armando Galarraga

I must have looked through a thousand photos of Armando, trying to find the right one for his installation into the PFandL Handsome Cowboy Hall of Fame. There’ s approximately 1,520,000 of them [More]

Mike Rowe

Mike Rowe

It’s that time again… the one where we get to pick the Handsome Cowboy of the month (whatever… inspiration is not constrained by time… where handsome men are concerned.) This [More]

Silent Bob

Silent Bob

Since its Valentine’s Day, at least it’s the aftermath… I am proposing to induct a Handsome Cowboy in my own Hall of Fame, whenever the notion hits me. I do believe I am obliged to set you [More]

The Lab

How Old Is She?

How Old Is She?

Take a guess.. how old was that old pine we cut down? Leave your best guess. Winner(s) will be rewarded! [More]

The Basement

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

Saving CeeCee Honeycutt

Great Aunt Tootie. Miz Thelma Rae Goodpepper. Oletta Jones. Violene Hobbs. Gertrude Odel. Sapphire, Miz Obee, and Flossy. They all had a hand in Saving CeeCee Honeycutt in the summer of 1967. In

Great Aunt Tootie. Miz Thelma Rae Goodpepper. Oletta Jones. Violene Hobbs. Gertrude Odel. Sapphire, Miz Obee, and Flossy. They all had a hand in Saving CeeCee Honeycutt in the summer of 1967. In[More]

The Cellar

Purple Cowboy

Purple Cowboy

I don’t mind telling you, the second I can find this… well, yeah, I am trying it. They got three strikes for them in my book. 1. Creative! Everything… smart, down to the names and [More]



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