Havano Ranch

26/09/2021

Football Sunday’s are back!
$1 wings and 1$ slices of pizza!
The game is on and the beer is waiting!!!!

26/08/2020

BYE BYE BAAA! Please don't judge. I'm one of those people who believe in keeping an animal until death we do part. Baa's case is a little different. He and his buddy (Baa Baa)--another intact ram--wandered in here at the end of September 2017. Just walked right in like they owned the place. Efforts to find the owner were made, but no one claimed them, so here they stayed.

They would spend all day head butting each other, then curl up and sleep together at night.

They went to sleep one January night, and when I went out to feed them their breakfast, Baa Baa had crossed the Rainbow Bridge. No signs of trauma, no blood from the ears or nose...he just never woke up.

Baa hasn't been really happy since then. I don't blame him, being kept in a round pen with nothing to head butt. It just wasn't fair to him.

So today he went to a new home in Sunsites, where he'll have 3 acres of fenced pasture with other sheep and goats, and other critters to keep him company, and a covered stall to sleep in at night.

We expected a bit of a rodeo to get him into the crate, but he just walked right in! Guess this was meant to be. He'll be much happier now.

16/08/2020

The reward. I have this beautiful HUGE bush growing outside my back door. The dilemma was I had to hack through it to get to the water supply line for my swamp cooler. The splice I put in a month or so ago had come apart. Yay me for having extra parts! I'm once again basking in blessed coolness!

21/07/2020

The hog nose snake showed up on my front patio for my amusement while I was dealing with water well issues. They will play dead when threatened, and their hiss sounds very similar to the rattle of a rattlesnake. They are harmless, and eat mice and rattlesnakes, so they have free range around here.

I don't use my Instagram, but I like some of the filters on their camera.

10/09/2019

I came outside to coil the hose back up onto its rack...and changed my mind.

This bass turd gets to enjoy his life for a little while longer. He went under the house. Crap! At least it looks likes he's been eating well. I hope it's a he and not a pregnant she. Lordy....never a dull moment.

06/08/2019

"Houdini Bull" came to visit me twice in the summer of 2018. He would liberate himself from his pasture, and take himself for a walkabout around the neighborhood. He would eventually wander on home, and stand outside his pasture gate to be let back in. Once the neighbors fixed their fence, he wandered no more.

I heard a strange noise outside and went to look. Someone's bull is out for a walkabout...in my driveway. The owners are trying to be located.

28/07/2019

...and yesterday, I was going to go storm chasing. I didn't have to go too far!

28/07/2019

Just realized I haven't updated the ranch page in almost a year. My bad!

We're still alive here at the ranch. We had a rather wet and snowy winter, and a beautiful spring.

The donkeys are well. This time of year, I usually only see them up close at sunset, when they come up to the barn for water. Usually, they're wandering around on the back 30 during the day, and this time of year they don't need a whole lot of hay.

Baa (the sheep), on the other hand, is like a cat. You fill up the cat's dish with food, they take two bites, and insist that their dish is empty. Baa is the same way with his hay.He takes two bites and insists that it's all gone, and he's starving to death. He voices his opinions all day...even with a mouth full of food.

Here are a few random photos that I've taken throughout the year so far.