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Have you ever had one of those days where the sun is shining, there’s nothing pressing on your schedule, your family is safe and home and together and the possibilities on how to spend  your w...

https://veederranch.com/2024/04/22/one-of-those-days/

We headed to a rodeo in our town a few weeks ago. The blizzard that was forecast hadn’t fully set in yet, and so we put on our going to town boots, I curled the girls’ hair for under their �...

https://veederranch.com/2024/04/03/trick-rider-or-bronc-rider/

Heya! Happy Friday! I’m celebrating the weekend by watching the snow fall, practicing my set for a couple concerts across the state next week (see you in Moorhead, MN?) and catching a rodeo in ...

https://veederranch.com/2024/03/22/nothings-forever-a-podcast-interview/

My dad lost his old cow dog, Juno, last week. After fourteen years of chasing cows through the draws, barking at squirrels and fighting with raccoons, howling with the coyotes and riding shotgun ...

https://veederranch.com/2024/03/19/the-good-life-of-a-good-dog/

Last night while I was folding laundry, my daughters wandered out into the living room on a pretend mission to escape something. Edie, my oldest, was dressed in overall-shorts with a little toy f...

https://veederranch.com/2024/03/11/let-us-be-bored/

When my husband and I were freshman in college at the University of North Dakota, I used tovisit him in his small, stinky dorm room in Walsh Hall and he would make me tuna saladsandwiches. This s...

https://veederranch.com/2024/03/05/forevers-in-the-saw-dust/

I’m not positive, but judging from the evidence, my husband’s New Year’s resolution is to get his entire 2024 to-do list done by then end of the month. By the time you’re reading this he ...

https://veederranch.com/2024/01/30/one-nail-at-a-time/

Happy New Year from the ranch. And happy longest month of the year in North Dakota. Or is that February? I can’t remember. Winter up here sometimes is like childbirth, you forget the horrors wh...

https://veederranch.com/2024/01/08/thank-you-for-listening/

Happy New Year! It’s the kids’ first day back at school after Christmas break and I’m already behind and this is why… Two days after Christmas We’re two days after Christmas and all thr...

https://veederranch.com/2024/01/03/after-christmas-poem/

Greetings from under the giant Christmas tree where Rosie and the Elf on the Shelf are laying because both got the three-day flu for Rosie’s sixth birthday and I’m feeling the impeding sense ...

https://veederranch.com/2023/12/11/the-magic-of-christmas/