Creating a home on (and off) the range
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This story begins with a bit of romance. My hubby surprised me with a 30-year-old horse trailer. He bought it on a rainy night at a ranch east of Dallas, known for offering massive, gorgeous Friesian horses as photography props for quinceaneras, which are Latin American celebrations of a girl’s 15th birthday, marking the transition…
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For those of you who missed my last post, I’m shopping for my first horse, and I’m taking you along for the ride. I went out again on my own without a teacher/trainer to try horses at two locations in one day. My first stop was a ranch where they sell a lot of horses,…
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Notes from my first horse shopping experience More than a year ago, at the urging of my loving, supportive hubby, I started taking riding lessons in Western horsemanship at a local barn recommended by a church friend. The goal: deciding if my life-long dream of owning a horse was still something I could realistically pursue….
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Farmers and ranchers are some of the hardest working people I know, but most of us city folks don’t give much thought to where our food comes from. No, I don’t mean Kroger or Dillons. My hubby, the Fix-it Farmer, and I are involved in agriculture in a few small ways because he didn’t want…
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In early March, Reno County had the worst prairie fires in anyone’s memory, and Plum Prairie Ranch was right in the middle of the danger zone. Eleven homes nearby were destroyed and about 6,000 acres burned, but that was less than 10 percent of a massive prairie fire in Clark and Comanche counties. The…
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This is Part 2 of the Plum Prairie Ranch Story. If you missed Part 1, go here. Shawn and I left DFW for Kansas in the wee hours of the morning Jan. 9 to make the 400 mile drive in time for an afternoon appointment to view the Plum property and get a home…
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We weren’t looking for a piece of prairie, but it found us all the same. Inching through stop-and-go traffic snarled on an eight-lane freeway between Dallas and Fort Worth, Shawn called his dad back home on the family farm in central Kansas to wish him a happy birthday. On this night in early December his…
