• The Way We Raise "Em in the West

    Be sure to turn off the music on my sidebar before you watch the videos or you’ll hear a confusion of noises.  You may have to watch them twice for them to buffer correctly. Posting videos is new territory for me so I may need someone to guide me in fine tuning the process. Yee Haw!  Ride ’em cowgirl.  It was probably this poor kids first time riding a sheep and she gets this…  (She was perfectly fine when she got up.)    This bull rider was de-ter-mined! Nobody had been able to make a qualifying ride (8 seconds minumum).  He was the last rider.  I think he would have been pretty stiff…

  • Justus Makes Me Smile

    You know how kids say the cutest, silliest, funniest and most adorable things.  Well Justus is no exception and I just had to record some things he’s said. Like this past week when he asked , "Can we have some Haagen Dogs?" (ice cream, should have been Haagen Dazs)  Driving down the road several months ago, Justus asked me to give him some math questions.  "Okay," I said.  "You have 1 frog and mommy gives you 1 more.  How many do you have?" "That’s puny.  I mean questions like 6+6." That same trip Justus seemed like he was going to vomit.  Thinking he was going to and knowing it would be a big mess since he had no…

  • Tackle It Tuesday #157

    This week I finally made bread – 20 loaves.  I have been procrastinating this for months.  I usually like to make only 10 at a time – any more than that and it seems as if the whole process drags on too long.  I decided to make the extra since I was going to give away a few loaves and our family seems to be devouring a lot of bread lately. Here is the recipe I use.  I don’t have it perfected – it’s a bit crumbly.  It’s definitely not sandwich bread worthy but it does make a delicious toast.   14 Grain Bread Use your Bosch mixer if you have one. …

  • Menu Planning Monday – May 18

    Monday Breakfast:  Rice Cereal, Toast, Honeydew – We missed Rice cereal last week so we could have this… A great breakfast treat on these warm mornings.  Make this while fresh fruit is plentiful.  Our fruit bowl consisted of apples, strawberries, a few blackberries, frozen blueberries, bananas, and mangoes.  Add some real maple syrup and milk and you have a delicious healthy breakfast. Supper:   Beef & Broccoli Stir-Fry w/ Rice (from Bon Appetit Tastes of the World), Won-Ton Soup? Tuesday Breakfast:  Serenity makes breakfast on this day.  Last week she made Zephyr Pancakes from The King Arthur Flour Bakers Companion.  She did an awesome job. Supper:  Black Beans & Rice w/ Sour Cream & Cilantro Wednesday…