Walkin' in High Cotton

I don’t think I ever shared these pictures. The Cowboy, in true John Wayne movie fashion, got a shotgun for Christmas (although it took until January to get it here). It’s not, quite, a real one–which would be too heavy for him to even lift. But it’s a serious one, with a serious purpose. It’s [...]

So we’ve been experiencing some technical difficulties over here at Walkin’ in High Cotton lately. Can I just say UGH!! If you can’t find me out in internet-land, chances are I can’t find me either–and I know you can’t stand to miss all the news about sheep pregnancies and scrubbing water buckets! But I’m back. [...]

Welcome to Wednesday Windings–I can’t wait for you to link up and show us what you’ve been working on. Don’t worry, it doesn’t have to be something brand new. Just add your link over on the left sidebar to share some craft inspirations with us! This past weekend I had some great card-making time with [...]

There’s a Murphy’s Law to farming and family that says no matter how many days you have off, the kids or animals are not going to get sick until the night before you have to go back to work. We just had a great 3-day holiday–well, me and Speedracer did. Everyone else had a nice [...]

My crew has been helping me work sheep lately, getting prepped for lambing season to kick off any minute now. Besides being big “mus-skulls” for me when there’s any holding, pushing, shoving, or hyip-hyipping to be done… …They’re also a little comic relief. Speedracer is still a little impatient for working with the animals and [...]

With the weather turning decent and lambing season coming up, we’ve been covering a lot of ground around here lately. The kids are a year older than they were last year–obviously, right?–so they’re a little more muscular and a little more capable. I can send them off on their own more now. As long as [...]

This week I am sooooo excited to see that it’s staying light longer. It’s actually light when we get home now and do the chores. This makes a huge difference to the end of our day! I am so thankful to see that winter is coming to a close, even if we still get frosty [...]

If I was like the rest of the internet, I would have posted Valentine’s Day projects for the last two weeks before Valentine’s Day. But I did do them, so better late than never! And I’d love for you to link up whatever you’ve been working on too, for Wednesday Windings! The linky’s over there [...]

As I talked about yesterday, we had a rough weekend. But it had it’s good moments too. Just like life in general, I reckon. I had errands to run in town first thing Saturday morning, since stores around here tend to close at 12 pm. At least the farm stores do. So Mr. Fix-It was [...]

He was born on my birthday in 2002… We drove 2.5 hours one way to take a look at him when he was only 4 weeks old. They said they had planned the breeding for themselves and a few hunt club buddies. They hadn’t expected 15 puppies.  15 spotted puppies tumbled out of the whelping [...]