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How a pug breaks his tail (and other shenanigans)
There’s a saying here at the ranch I use when something kinda shitty goes down. I use it to let that shitty little experience roll off my back and out of my mind in order to move on with the rest of...
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So many gifts.
Last Christmas Husband and I were planning the arrival of our new home. Husband worked during the coldest weeks of the year alongside his dad, Pops and our neighbor hammering nails with gloved hands,...
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To the fields…
And now an ode to late summer fields. To wheat fields, golden and rolling. To sunflower fields, bright and following the sun. To hay fields, dotting the landscape in preparation for winter. To oil...
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Sunday Column: Don’t look in my car…
On Thursday night after a morning of rounding up cattle, an afternoon of office work and an evening of photography, I threw some clothes in a bag, squashed a cap over my tangled hair and pulled out of...
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A North Dakota Story
I don’t know if you noticed, but North Dakota’s sort of popular right now. In the last few weeks, it seems like every time I turn around I’m returning a call from a press source interested in this...
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Why not here? Big music in a small town.
Husband’s checking the air on the pickup tires and I just changed my guitar strings. Tomorrow morning bright and early we’re loading up our boots and guitars (and coolers) and heading west to the Red...
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Sunday Column: Traditions, heartbeats, one another…
When I was about 19 or so I wrote a song called “Heroes Proved.” I was knee deep in college and missing home, missing a slower paced life. Missing college. Missing a time when neighbors came over and...
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At the Farm and Fleet…
One of the most worthless things on the planet are rubber boots with holes in both. I own a pair and, well, there’s nothing worse than squishy toes when the mud is so nice and ripe for mucking around...
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Sunday Column: Getting it done in the Wild West…
Oh my, we had such an amazing weekend here at the ranch. I can’t believe I’m even (barely) awake today as we all come down from the high of friends and family and celebrating it all. And I intend on...
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In between seasons
“You should have seen it out in the east pasture,” Husband told me when he got in from searching for stray bulls last week. “It was so colorful, like God dropped a bag of Skittles from the sky.” It...
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While I rock the baby: Confessions of a new mom
These days I don’t know where the weeks go. They fly by me as I sit rocking this teething baby who just started to notice when I enter and exit the room, making sure to voice her distaste at the whole...
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A Spring Dinosaur Hunt
As the weather’s warmed up a bit, we finally get to spend some time outside. And it seems I was given the right baby because Edie loves it as much as I do. And as much as the dogs it seems. Every time...
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The long way home
Coming Home: Sometimes we need to take a different road to get back home by Jessie Veeder 5-15-16 Forum Communications Last week I took a different road from town to home. I do that sometimes, to...
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Baby Edie rides her horses
Here’s Edie, doing what we do in the morning. Rolling and flipping and grabbing and smiling and screaming at her toys because they aren’t doing what she wants them to do and I have no idea what that...
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The sweet spot of the season
Coming Home: In the sweet spot of summer, motherhood by Jessie Veeder 5-30-16 http://www.inforum.com The cows are milling by the dam and grazing on the short, neon green grass that’s growing just on...
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This not-so-glamourous life…
A photographer came to visit the ranch and I’ll tell you right now, it wasn’t pretty people. We spent the day before working an art event in town that I had been planning for months and didn’t get...
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Where everybody knows your name (or the name of someone you might be related to)
For those of you who grew up or continue to grow up in a small town… Coming Home: In a state that’s a big small town, there’s always a seat at the table 6-12-16 by Jessie Veeder Forum Communication...
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Wild berries, worms and cuss words…
Last night I went on a walk to close some gates in our home pasture and check a couple juneberry patches. Juneberries are a special treat around here. Like wild mini-blueberries, if they show up, they...
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How to make wild raspberry dessert
How to make wild raspberry dessert Step 1: Wake up in the morning to a happy husband, a well-rested niece and a smiling baby. Snuggle the baby. Play and roll around with her on the floor. Put her in...
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Building good days.
Coming Home: Building good days a gift in this unpredictable life by Jessie Veeder 7-24-16 InForum http://www.inforum.com Bad days. Good days. Out here on the ranch, for some reason, I like to define...
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