Double Check Ranch

Ode to the wonderful joys of chicken ownership versus dog/cat ownership.[Read More]

We are truly very blessed and in trying to remember to say Grace before every meal, I stumbled upon a good prayer...

Almighty God, whose loving hand

has given us all that we possess:

Grant us grace that we may

honor you with our substance,

and, remembering the account

which we must one day give,

may be faithful stewards of your bounty,

through Jesus Christ our Lord.  Amen.

-- from the Book of Common Prayer, For the Right Use of God's Gifts

The end comes and you don't expect it.[Read More]

Chicken Run -- a great movie[Read More]

Living within a budget, Uncle Sam should take a lesson from the aggies.[Read More]

Life Principles[Read More]

"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny." — Thomas Jefferson
Overregulation of the food system is the problem, stop proposed bill S-510 which is another government attempt to curtail your freedom to buy the food you love. It will benefit the industrial food system and imports, two sectors of the food system that cripple our future through illness and unsustainability.

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Alternative dairy proposition.[Read More]

Industrial agriculture is featured in the Smithsonian, shedding light on the practice of Artificial Insemination that is becoming the norm in modern agriculture.  It's something that I highly disapprove of and while this Smithsonian article disgusted me to read, at least it's showing another part of the grim industrial agriculture story to the rest of the interested world. [Read More]

Life sans chickens.  

Toad in the fountain.

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Rain, glorious rain at the ranch!  

Sarah's first trip to a county fair!

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Desert tortoise behavior could teach modern children a thing or two.[Read More]

With the fun of having the horses and cows close by, come the toddler-ish mishaps that they always cause.  [Read More]

We found our long-lost tortoise.  [Read More]

We rescue a desert tortoise from Highway 77.[Read More]