The Barn Door has been busy this past month. The loft door has been open for loading hay into the loft, which never holds enough to last an entire year. In the heat of summer, everyone is busy baling, hauling and stacking hay, preparing for those long cold winter nights. There is something about haying that really is ... Read More »
The Barn Door is always open and ready to welcome visitors. Recently a local church called to see if they could arrange a time and day for members of a family retreat to come visit the horses. The theme of their retreat was western so horses seemed a likely fit. It turned out to be a wonderful day ... Read More »
The Barn Door is OPEN!! Summer is here and the doors are busy with horses, children and adults going in and out. The personalities are all so different, strong, confident, shy and uncertain, and I havenft even spoken about the people yet! Which leads me into a nice segue. People and horse personalities. When new children start riding at the ... Read More »
Horses and children can be challenging. Anyone who has ever dealt with a horse can understand what an understatement that can be. Combine horses and kids and life gets interesting really quick. Long ago, don’t want to date myself but I didn’t have grey hair then, as I sat relaxing on the porch swing at the ranch in Colorado, I ... Read More »
The Barn Door is open to Spring! A wonderful time of year when the grass greens, flowers blossom, leaves fill out and the world refreshes, along with those pesky little things called Black Flies. A long time ago when I was young, my grandparents would take my sister and I on fishing trips. Couldn’t tell you where we went, but ... Read More »
Mother’s Day has come and gone and I hope brought each Mom a special feeling. In talking to a few friends about Mother’s Day, I came to realize how differently each person felt about it. Doors were beginning to open and to close for each person in a special manner. Take the young mom who is celebrating for the first ... Read More »
I use to live in Colorado on a cattle ranch in a high mountain valley. The views were beautiful and often I could see the peaks around me covered with snow while experiencing 80 degree weather and bright sunshine. Colorado is a state full of contrasts. The ranch I lived and worked on not only had cattle, they raised buffalo, ... Read More »
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