I have been out on the Prairie Preserve checking steers with my horse Beau.There’s a lot of ground to cover in 1700+ acres. It’s beautiful country that goes from open prairie to rocks and cactus to wooded ravines and one of only two free flowing rivers in Oklahoma. We lease this land in the summer…
Best Cowgirl Boots These boots were made for riding..We love using horses on our ranch. Having an ATV to help carry supplies, put out mineral or check a mama trying to calve is wonderfully quick and efficient on the ranch. Roger and I often load up our dogs, Sadie andBonnie, and drive through the herds….
Would you want to ride a horse? Beau and I hit the trail today at the Prairie Preserve pasture. He was a real champ carrying me through the low fog and the light mist to check all the cattle. He jumped creeks and crossed rocky patches filled with cactus. He would perk his little fox-like…
Ranch Life There are lots of things you could do for a “living” besides ranching.Other things that wouldn’t require you to feed cows in the icy depths of winter. Or pull a new calf from a first time mama in the middle of the night. Or where you don’t have to stack square bales in…
How to be a real cowboy. These four cowboys are amazing “hands” when it comes to a horse or livestock.Jet. Tuff, Taw and Newt are cowboys through and through…even their names sound like the characters in a western movie!You won’t find a harder working crew and they are each strong Christian men. They gathered, sorted…
Are you a strong woman? Strong, kind women…my family is full of them.Including Sara (pictured here) who is married to my brother Cord. I affectionately call her my Sister in Love. She has five sisters and she is a real hand with a horse. I stopped by to see them and my niece, Tulsa, this…
Does your run ever not go as planned? My run took a totally different turn…
Choose joyChoose lightChoose your attitude Everything has a season. My mom always said, “Bloom where you are planted. Sometimes we don’t feel like we are “blooming.” Just like the dormant ranch flowers. But don’t think just because you’re not blooming you’re not growing! The sunshine makes me long for Spring on the ranch. We are…
What is your comfort zone? I’m at home in a barn…The horses, the dirt, the smells, the sounds…Everything about a barn is in my blood. A barn is comfortable to me. Over the last 3 years of Callison Ranch Beef & Market, I have found myself in places that were not my comfort zone. Places…
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We all have that one “Thing.” You know the one. The one thing you stew about throughout the day; stirring it over and over in your mind. Depending on your season of life, it may be work or marriage or money or age or regret or health or whatever. Lately, for me, the “thing” I…
We always try to watch the local weather before heading to bed. If you are a rancher or farmer, you live by the weather. It affects what plans we make for the following days. No one likes to work cattle in the rain even though it is sometimes necessary. We pray for rain when it’s…