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/
I have a little beef with the hierarchy of things around here and I guess it’s time to complain publicly because, well, maybe someone out there can sympathize. Recently, I was getting a ride fr...
https://veederranch.com/2022/10/06/taking-a-back-seat-to-the-dogs/
Millie the Ranch DogForum Communication I think it’s time for a little update on Millie the Christmas puppy. Remember her? The tiny black pug Santa dropped on our doorstep for the girls to love...
The Christmas pug Forum Communications Holiday magic. It’s 6:30 a.m. the day after Christmas and I’m in it up to my ankles here at the ranch, dodging unwrapped boxes, doll strollers, toy kitc...
https://veederranch.com/2019/12/30/oh-christmas-pug-oh-christmas-pug/
What’s normal anyway? Forum Communications On the evening of Christmas Day, after all the gifts were opened, the leftovers were boxed up and the goodbye hugs were given, we arrived home to our ...
Hoofbeats and paw prints and measuring time My husband used to have a big yellow dog that would pull him around town on his Rollerblades. Young, strong and full of heart, the two of them flew thr...
https://veederranch.com/2018/08/13/hoofbeats-and-paw-prints-and-measuring-time/
How a dog’s life measures time by Jessie Veeder Forum Communications http://www.inforum.com The first year my husband and I got married, we lived in the little house in the barnyard where my da...
https://veederranch.com/2017/04/17/how-a-dogs-life-measures-time/
We’re in the thick of fall at the ranch, which doesn’t mean as much pumpkin spice flavor as it does wooly horses, wooly caps and scrambling to get things buttoned up and rounded up for the wi...
I grow vegetables. Vegetables attract bugs. Bugs attract frogs. Frogs eat bugs. I like bug-less vegetables so I like these frogs. So I don’t mind when I wear my shortyshorts to the garden and...
https://veederranch.com/2016/08/30/the-law-of-the-land-and-other-gruesome-truths/
Here’s the news from the ranch today and it’s adorable. We have a bottle calf. I call her Lola. Or Sweet Cakes. Or BeBe. Or Bubba Whatever comes out. She’s the other half of a set of twins ...