Showing posts with label barn life. Show all posts
Showing posts with label barn life. Show all posts

Creature Comforts
2:40 PM - Posted by Tomorrow's Wishes - 0 comments
We have gotten pretty attached to our "creature comforts" around our ranch. Oh sure, the home we live in is great, but it's the creatures that live here and visit that I'm referring to. 

In our family, it doesn't take much for an animal to win over our hearts. Basically we meet them or they walk onto our property and we are hooked.  That is certainly apparent from the growing number of these furry and feathery souls occupying our barn and home right now. 

From our beautiful horses...

Tessa giving Roxy a flower makeover



Snuggling with Tanner

Our herd...Half Shy, Roxy, Rocket, and Tanner

Rocket, Roxy, Tanner, and Half Shy

Our energetic dogs...

Gracie playing in the water

Z and Gracie taking a break on our hike


Nina and Nikki
To our spoiled rotten barn cats...and I do use the word "barn cats" very loosely - they are great mousers, but do love their creature comforts.

Max and Lulu snuggling on Dad's chair
Max eyeing a bird in the tree

Lulu (And now I know why my plant wasn't growing)
And of course, you can't forget our chickens...

Our dear friend Kathy with a few of our chickens from our flock - they love the attention
 and our bunnies...

Our rescued rabbit Prince, who is pushing 10 pounds now!

Prince's buddy...Captain Jack 

To even the unexpected visitor that will stop by now and then...

We have several turtle saves a year
My husband found this little guy in the garden. 



This little goose just wandered onto the property one day, extremely friendly and hungry.
He spent some time with us and off he went. Hoping he comes back for a visit soon.
We get excited to meet each and every animal that has come into our lives. We never take for granted even the littlest of our visitors. We feel blessed to have encountered each and every one of them. 

The barn swallow babies struggling to learn how to fly, the occasional salamander on a rainy night, even the unique caterpillars, butterflies, and bugs that drop by. 

Fledgling Barn Swallow

Saddle back caterpillar

They build such amazing webs!

We get so many hummingbird visitors each year, and every year some manage to get trapped in our garage..
We have become experts at getting them out. They are always so grateful they usually pause for a photo. 
There is always a new creature making it's way on to our ranch and into our hearts. (I could do without the snakes, but...they do eat the barn mice, notice no pictures of those.)
It always so much fun walking the property and encountering a new creature just hanging around. 

Fence Post Lizard

Praying Mantis
Having friends and family over to share in our blessings make it all the better. Watching someone interact with our flock of chickens, pet the velvety nose of one of our horses, or get licked by one of our extremely excited labs (or horses) makes our souls happy. 




Watching their faces light up is a reminder of what a wonderful, beautiful, and blessed life we have and how much we enjoy sharing it with others.

  


Rocket is a bit of a lover...
Our barn doors and our hearts are always open to those creatures that want to visit, both animal and human. ;) We will feed them, love them, and miss them when they move on; but we will forever be changed by their presence and grateful for the time we spend with them. 

Each and every creature, every person who has stepped foot on our property, has forever etched a place in our hearts and our family.










Life On Lost Creek Ranch
1:03 PM - Posted by Tomorrow's Wishes - 0 comments
It's been awhile since I have posted, for many reasons, but the biggest reason is we had been busy searching for our next home, a small ranch that we could live on and finally bring our horses to be with us.

We had always wanted property, and had looked many times over the years. However, when the horses came into our lives, it became an obsession with us to to not just find "some property" but to finally find our "country home". 

A place for running around barefoot and free, rolling around on the grass, pausing only to point out the cloud animals drifting by.

A place far enough out so that you can look up at the night sky and see an endless amount of stars. A fun and playful homestead to have cookouts, bonfires, hayrides and country parties.

A wild enough place, not touched by the city, to go trekking through nature and capture all of it's beauty.

A place where my husband and I could grow old together sipping iced tea on a porch swing.

A place to watch as our kids grow up, comeback to visit and bring their friends, and some day bring our grand kids to visit.

A place where our horses could run and we could see them everyday, without driving anywhere, we could see them just by looking out our bedroom window.

Rocket

Half Shy and Roxy

Tanner
Well, after a long (very long, like in several years) and tireless search (just ask our realtor, nothing felt like "the one") we finally found it, our very own "country home".

We would have some work cut out for us...there was a beautiful home on the acreage, but no fenced pastures, no barn...but it had all that we needed to make our home into what we now call...

Lost Creek Ranch. 












Tessa enjoying the view from our back porch.

We moved in this summer, and haven't stopped working since. It was a HOT summer! A sweaty, and often times tense environment, of putting in fence posts, pasture fencing and all that goes along with getting a ranch started.

My awesome husband breaking up the rock we kept encountering while digging.
 I'll have you know that is a "two man" auger and I was the "other man" working it.
Can you say girl power!?
Roxy always wanting to help.

The barn is finally up...
...but now the stall building has started. It is a slow go since my husband is doing it himself, after work and on the weekends.


He has the back and sides done, we have temporary fronts on while he works on building the stall fronts. Progress is good! Next, electric in the barn!


We are ALL loving every minute of it!


Tessa, Sean and Samantha

Tessa on our trampoline with our dogs;
Gracie, our yellow lab and Nina and Nikki, our Chihuahuas.
In our spare time (aka when not working on the barn, fencing, house or the yard) we try to enjoy our surroundings.



Even if that means from the seat of the tractor or lawn mower...



 or...a tree stand.




Even bringing home our first load of hay felt great!


Using our fire pit for the first time.


Songs by the campfire or in the kitchen...


Of course we had to get a few barn cats!

Max and Lorelai

We love to take hikes and explore our new surroundings and on our hikes we admire how cool nature truly is. 


































And on every hike we discover another reason why this was the perfect place for us and we love it here.

























We enjoy working out doors. (and playing)






It has been a true joy watching as the seasons changed from summer...








to fall...






...to winter on the ranch. 





Each season bringing us new adventures and wonderful memories that will last us a lifetime.




































We are so incredibly blessed to have found our little Lost Creek Ranch and we look forward to all that it and He has in store for us in the years to come.