A couple of days ago Alayne called me from our welcome center and said, "Get your camera, you need to see Rocky and Joshua on the backhoe."  Always in search of a good blog photo, I grabbed the camera off the desk and dashed outside.  It was snowing lightly with big, wet flakes, but as…

Every morning after I let the dogs out of Widget's House, I stand by with pooper scooper equipment in hand to follow them around while they do their business.  (With snow on the ground, if you don't scoop right away, the poop can disappear on you really fast.  I'm thinking about writing a book called…

This sweet blind Lab arrived at the ranch yesterday.  I drove over to our vet clinic in Helena to pick him up.  The police department in Conrad, Montana — a small town on the other side of the Rockies, northeast of us — had found him wandering on Interstate 15 back in February.  Yes, someone…