never thought I'd literally be counting sheep before bed Well, if you are one of the cars that frequently pass our ranch & corral on our county road, you would have seen that we have quite a few new additions to the ranch! We recently invested in a nice flock of sheep. I figured I’d dedicate an entire post to them as they continue to impress me as our first official foray into livestock, other than my horse and chickens. Prepare yourselves for a brain dump on all things sheep

the story of a true mouser This is the story of a small barn cat that showed up at the right time. Dash was born under the front porch with five littermates. There were three tuxedo kittens and three long-haired black cats. We had no idea there were cats living under there when we initially toured the place. We found them the second week after we purchased the farmhouse when pulling into the driveway one day. The whole group was extremely skittish and did not want to be appro

a Facebook marketplace find that needed a village to fix it First of all, I didn’t expect we’d need or buy a tractor in the first three months of owning the Ranch, but we pretty immediately decided “ope” we are definitely going to need one of those. Let’s back up a little, though. My mom’s side of the family takes a bit of pride in tractors, specifically the red ones, due to my Poppy (my grandpa) working on tractors all his life and ensuring we all knew that International Har

three months of raising chickens for the first time Before we even moved into our new house, I decided we should order chickens. Starting a flock has been on my to-do for quite some time. So long, in fact, that the promise to eventually get them was in our wedding vows. So what does one do when they finally have a place for them? Get them! I make a ton of lists. One of the lists that lives on my phone is an “ideal flock” based on all of the research I’ve done. The list I came