Last of the OGs
Last month a long-anticipated milestone was reached, and it's taken me almost a month to process. In a whirlwind of events, Jacob, the youngest-born of the four Originals, found a…
Giving Thanks
Whew! Ok. All the celebrating is done. I napped. I got the leftovers into the designated refrigeration units. There are still dishes to be done, but I have higher priorities…
October at the Ranch
I had to go back and look at the calendar to figure out just when this weekender took place - our month has been, in a word, tumultuous, not to…
7 & 15
After only a slight delay of one week past the birthdays (to accommodate Grandma's epic journey to the Heidmann Family Reunion in North Dakota) we were at last able to…
A Homecoming, a Scenic Excursion, and a Birthday
It's been a long haul, but finally on Friday, we got our Xavier home again. The afternoon was spent with the siblings getting caught up. We had an early supper…
The Dog Days of Summer
When the heat index has reached 100F by 8am, it's difficult to find motivation to do much of anything but stay indoors and lie around, watching YouTube videos about how…
RIP Gwinny: ? – 06/01/23
It came as a shock. Gwinny has been growing several tumors over the past year or so, and the doctor had always said they were just benign fatty tumors and…
Summer Begins
As I mentioned in the previous post, Paul and Laurent went up north with the kids for the weekend and, in the various to-ings and fro-ings on the ranch roads,…
The Ox Bow Saloon in Payson, Arizona
A Sunday Afternoon Drive
In keeping with our family tradition of over two decades now, this weekend, being Memorial Weekend, was designated as the end-of-the-schoolyear-going-to-the-ranch. Normally the schedule would have been to leave on…
A Freshly Minted Freshman
I don't mind saying there was quite a bit of bother about getting this kid promoted tonight! Well, to be honest, he made it pretty easy what with his stellar…