Go on. Give it a pull! Life on a ranch is glorious. Open, endless vistas. Fresh air. Time with your family. And endless hour...

Because it's poetry month . . .   From this spell of cold and damp, The germs in close formation, tramp, On my resistance, bli...

Buddies. Eh? I knew what he was saying. He knew what he was saying. Too bad they weren’t the same thing . . . When I was little,...

Foreground: Mom's flowers. Background: The garage. My hiding place was down and left. On the Stringam ranch, we had an old garag...

From the ashes . . . . . . rise the new and improved. Ranch families know how to have fun and it usually involves dancing. Let ...

A poem. Because it's Saturday. Our good friend Shirley. Gramma and her little beans. Great Gramma and her Little Bean Had th...

Supplier of kindliness. And food. The Stringam ranch was a large spread situated some twenty miles from the town of Milk River, Albert...

Sisters Also a Sister In our church, everyone is addressed either as 'Brother' or 'Sister'. It gives a fun, fam...

When a man says he’ll do something, he’ll do it. There’s no reason to remind him every six months or so. My son is a great husband an...

Mark. With his friend. Our family loves root beer. Homemade. And our eldest son can sleep through anything. These two facts are related...

For once, he’d   listened   to his wife, How to ameliorate her life, And he went without delay, To take her on a holiday. But ...

You want me to eat what . . .? My Dad always claimed to be allergic to onions. Whenever he ordered any burger, he always asked them to ...

Notice the cute little boys. One with hair. One with . . . cheeks. Ignore the glasses. When I was expecting my second son, I craved a...

Mmmmm.  Sweet, tasty stickiness. It categorizes you. Marks your place in the family. Even decides if you will be granted admission to t...

Du-dum. Du-dum. Dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-dum-du-du-duuhhh! He’d been away at work. Ten days on. And now he was home for his four days of...

When Dad was talking. I was listening . . . Every. Square. Foot. The annual production sale at the Stringam ranch was the hi...

Stories with Dad . . . See? It seemed like a good idea. Movie night in town. A bit romantic. A bit relaxing. And a much-ne...

There’s an old saying, ‘Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth’. Now you should know that horses, as they get older, show it mostly in the...

This . . . Plus this . . . Plus this . . . Plus this . . . And finally, this. Dad loved telling this story. Of his ...