I spent a good two weeks away from this place. After our vacation with friends spent skiing down mountains in Colorado, I hopped a plane and met my mom in Minneapolis where we shopped at market f...
Heeeyyyyaaaa!!! It’s FRRIIIDDDAAYYY! It’s been an exciting week at the ranch, beginning with this: No, that’s not Ted Nugent, that there is my handsome, bearded husband with the bull elk h...
https://veederranch.com/2014/09/26/a-full-life-a-full-freezer/
It has been the kind of autumn weather sent from somewhere good. 65 degrees and sunny. No wind. The leaves are changing quietly and, if it weren’t for the magical mosquitos that somehow made it...
Mid January in Western North Dakota doesn’t have the best reputation. It’s indecisive. One day it’s a kind, 20 some degrees, the next a bitter, chilling 20 below. Then, just when you find p...
In case you didn’t notice all of the pickups driving a little bit slower down the highway…or that blaze orange and camouflage have suddenly appeared as a fashion statement…or, you know, ...
https://veederranch.com/2011/11/08/cowboy-cooks-hunting-camp-stew/
Out here on these acres of ranch land there are things I know are there and places I roam everyday. I know there are cattle somewhere between the east and west pastures, if the sneaky animals hav...
https://veederranch.com/2011/10/03/the-behavior-of-men-and-elk/
You know at the end of the CBS Sunday Morning news program, after the human interest stories, the witty commentary, the pleasant conversations with Charles Osgood and his equally pleasant bow-t...
I have a theory about this world we live in. I know I’ve said it here before, but it just proved itself to me again on Monday evening and I feel I have to share it once more. Because there … ...
https://veederranch.com/2011/04/27/life-one-damn-masterpiece-after-another/