Author Archives: dennisranch

Gettin’ kind’a warmish around these parts. But at least we have a hot wind blowing! 😉 Went up to Faith yesterday evening to watch the Matched Bronc riding. Excellent! Couple of neighbors and their sons rode along and we met up with more friends and were surrounded by a sea of people we know. ThisContinue reading “Aug 12, 2010”

Editor’s Note: Below are selected excerpts from Brigitte Gabriel’s speech delivered at the Intelligence Summit in Washington DC We gather here today to share information and knowledge. Intelligence is not merely cold hard data about numerical strength or armament or disposition of military forces. The most important element of intelligence has to be understanding theContinue reading “I wonder if some will ever get it?”

Had to be up by Belle Fourche for a Cowboy Chuckwagon Breakfast and church service yesterday. Jim Thompson did the reading and preachin’ and I sang a song and did a couple poems. Not too many but saw a guy I grew up around and his wife. We had made contact recently thru’ the internetContinue reading “Here and there”

Finally got  all the bales hauled and into the shed. Put the mower on and cut down some weeds. Electric company came and cut some branches that were close to the line coming in to the house and trimmed up a tree that was going to make a mess when it went down as partContinue reading “Odds and ends”

By Dewie Whetsell, Alaskan Fisherman. As posted in comments on Greta’s article referencing the MOVEON ad about Sarah Palin. The last 45 of my 66 years I’ve spent in a commercial fishing town in Alaska. I understand Alaska politics but never understood national politics well until this last year. Here’s the breaking point: Neither sideContinue reading “Check this out!”

The only one I ever wrote and I wrote it in a year like this, about this time. Don’t think I’ve ever posted it here before, but if I did, it’s time to do so again. An invasion of bikers all dressed in black or of grasshoppers on the attack I much prefer the hoppersContinue reading “Limerick”

Ahh, August. Heat and motorcycles and grasshoppers. I do not enjoy any of them, except in small amounts. Every year for 70 years now, motorcyclists have congregated in and around Sturgis, SD for the Motorcycle rally. And I imagine most are good folks. But they come from different areas and they have different idea’s aboutContinue reading “Hoppers and bikers”

I live in a high desert. Last time I looked, we got 15 inches of moisture a year. And usually some of that is made up of snow in the winter that swirls, drifts and blows around until it is deposited into downwind areas and creeks and draws. Which is good, as that is whereContinue reading “Rain”

Got the road all mowed and raked and baled. Had a shower come thru” when I first started baling so I had to re rake the next day and finish up. About a 100 I suppose or a few more. My neighbor with a truck and loader came this morning and hauled me some gravelContinue reading “Idiot cubes and gravel”

Rode down and roped and doctored a bad eye heifer this morning. Made something work I have tried before but never got to work to good. After I got her roped and laid down I got the rope between her hind legs and around one and back up in a figure eight around her neckContinue reading “Tuesday July 27”