Introduction

Today is the first blog for me.
A little about the Ranch
We are located in beautiful Northern Lower Michigan, God's Country as they say. On the ranch we have 2 great horses a gelding and a mare. One very prentious barn cat, and a couple chickens.
Things are pretty quiet most times but once in a while we get things wound up around here and have fun.
I will introduce you to my horses. I have chosen to call them the Gelding and the Mare, just to keep their privacy. The Gelding. He is bright copper red and built like a steam roller, and smart. He seems to think he is smarter than any human and absolutly smarter than any other horse. He is strong and athletic and the superior breeding he comes from rolls off him like thunder rolls through the clouds. The mare is equally smart but she is not quite so stuck up. She is beautiful athletic and gracefull. She is a paint and when she stands out in the woods she looks like an Indian pony you might have seen in a movie. She is sweet and kind and she worships the ground the gelding walks on and he loves it.
The Barn Cat came into my life in a most unusual way. One snowy night a long time ago I was driving home from town. It was blowing and snowing and the road crews could not keep up with the snow coming down. As I drove I saw two little eyes along the road, at first I thought it might be a bunny rabbit but than realized it was a small kitten. Someone had thrown out a little kitten along the road into the snow bank just left to die I guess. I turned around and picked her up. Just what I needed a kitten, but there was no way I could let the poor little thing freeze. That was about 17 years ago as best as I can count. She much prefers to live at the barn she likes her freedom and she has a job there as far as she is concerened that is the best life. I worry about her in the winter now that she is getting old but she will have a heated bed this winter. I now have electricity at the barn and her usual bed is up on top of the tack room. Now the chickens they have just gotten their new home completed. They have a great little house that is insulated and I just finished the fence area for them. They actually lived in my basement this winter in a cage. Now before you all go crazy thinking I am a red neck think of it this way. Many many people have parrots or other birds in the house. My chicken is about the size of a Pheasant and last winter I brought home an egg from the farm I worked on and she sat on it until it hatched, she hatched out a small rooster, He is about the size of a Morning Dove full grown. When they get moved into their house this week, I will be getting a few more hens so I can have fresh eggs. I will tell you my chicken's names they don't mind. The Hen is Chicky A. Chicken and the Rooster is Scooter A. Chicken. So you can see what we are dealing with here. Chicky actually will come to the cage door and jump up and down just like a puppy, she wants to get out of the cage and go outside. Now this type of chicken will let the babies set on their back while they are small just so they can keep track of them I guess. Anyway Scooter still thinks he is small and when they sleep at night he gets up on her back and goes to sleep. She lets him cause she thinks he is still small. No one has told her he will not get as big as she is so she thinks it is taking forever for him to get grown up. He actually started crowing when he was only about 4 weeks old he still had all his baby feathers that was a sight to see and a sound to hear let me tell you.
Well I guess that is enough for now I plan to try to post at least once a week to keep you all updated on the critters here. I hope you enjoy the blog