Category: Ranch Life
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20 Thoughts on Turning 30
Today, I have successfully amassed 10,950 days on Earth. A lot of has gone down in 30 years… The year I was born the New York Mets were the World Series Champions, the Space Shuttle Challenger exploded and Top Gun was the number one movie at the box office. Cell phones, DVDs and Facebook were not…
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Buzzard’s Beat – Live and Ready for Action
Welcome to the new and improved Buzzard’s Beat! Thank you for your patronage and for reading all these years. If you’re here it means that you followed the migration successfully so thank you! I’m so thrilled to have this new site up and running – I have spent countless hours scouring internet tutorials, consulting with…
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I’m Taking a Seat
Listening in to a meeting about the Veterinary Feed Directive at our local auction market. I was the only young producer in attendance. If you aren’t at the table, you aren’t part of the conversation. That mantra is heard often throughout society during presidential elections and debates but have you ever taken the time to consider…
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10 Things a Cowgirl Would Do If She Won the Powerball Lotto
I’d have a barn full of roping horses and pastures full of cows A billion dollars. Actually, $1.5 billion. That’s a lot of clamshells. A friend of mine purchased a Powerball ticket for last night’s big jackpot and inquired whether I had as well. Negatory, I replied. Not because I have anything against Powerball –…
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9 Things You Learn While Living in a College Town for 9 Years
As I mentioned last week, we have just moved back to the county where I was born and raised. We are in the final stages of purchasing a small ranch property, which I am absolutely ecstatic about, but until we close we are living with my father [so I won’t be sharing pictures or saying it’s…