This morning the new calves were frolicking, bucking and kicking up their wobbly legs outside my window as the sun began to rise magenta pink on the cusp of the hill. The grass is neon green and ...
What can happen in a summer at the ranch? When you’re raising two young daughters this is where they sprout and bloom, in this season of sunshine and sprinklers and butterflies and toads. We’...
Read in the Fargo Forum It’s officially summer and my daughters have officially done the thing that I’ve sorta been waiting for the past month or so — they’ve made the great escape over t...
https://veederranch.com/2022/06/28/sweet-clover-sweet-summer/
Notes on a Rural Summer By the time you read this, summer will have officially arrived for most of the kids in North Dakota. That last bell, it means more to me now that we wrapped up our first o...
Happy summer everyone. We took as much of a hiatus from real life as we could over the 4th of July week to head to my grandparent’s lake cabin in Minnesota like we do every year over the holida...
https://veederranch.com/2018/07/09/who-are-we-without-our-memories/
Here’s a video of Edie in the lake last weekend. It was hot as hell and it was my birthday month so I decided we needed to take the pontoon out on the lake for the first time all summer … Con...
https://veederranch.com/2016/09/01/small-challenges-small-reminders/
Coming Home: Lake traditions become more precious with plus-one by Jessie Veeder 7-17-16 Forum Communications http://www.inforum.com I spent last week in vacation mode, which to some might bring ...
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,...
https://veederranch.com/2016/06/30/wild-berries-worms-and-cuss-words/
I’m having gardener’s remorse. Up until now I didn’t know that was a thing, but it’s a thing. My big fat mouth got me in trouble last year when I went around waving my giant carrots and p...
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 ju...
https://veederranch.com/2016/05/31/the-sweet-spot-of-the-season/