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This story was written by a friend of mine, Welda Grider, published in a local newspaper and has quickly made the rounds of the internet. It’s too good not to continue its path around the world. Julie Carter ************************* Reasons not to assault a ranch woman By Welda McKinley...

New eXtension Website Launched http://www.extension.org/ An educational partnership of 74 land-grant universities in the United States has launched eXtension, an interactive learning website delivering research knowledge to the public. Content on the site is organized around resource areas...

Sadie Hawkins cowboy-style By Julie Carter Cowgirl Sass & Savvy Bachelorhood among cowboys is a confirmed asset to this free-livin' species of man. I know one who is sure he's going to be a bachelor for his allotted three score and ten years. He says, "Good judgment comes from experience...

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$27,000 or best offer By Julie Carter Cowboys are born with a trading gene. Usually this involves swapping horses, livestock, trailers, saddles or pocketknives. Horse-trading requires a special language. If both parties in a trade are cowboys, the buyer is already in "beware" mode. However...

From Albuquerque Journal ************************* Old Breed of Spanish Cattle Could Help Struggling Ranchers By Susan Montoya Bryan/ Associated Press JORNADA EXPERIMENTAL RANGE — Ed Fredrickson is watching every move his cattle make by checking GPS units on their collars and using...

Wife swap -Western-style By Julie Carter A Boston homemaker wife stepped out of a white Suburban and gasped as she, through rhinestone-edged sunglasses, took in the endless vistas that surrounded her. She tugged her faux fur a little tighter around her, leaned into the wind as it whipped her...

Texas hospitality

Lee Pitts Girls, can we talk? Recently my wife and I were invited to a wedding and in the process I was introduced to the bridal registry. At first I thought it was just another “voluntary” ID program to register your horse tack with the USDA. How was I supposed to know that it’s a wish list...

The National Beef Cook off will be on TV on the food channel at 6PM Mountain time on Sunday Jan 13, on Jan 14--1AM, Jan 17--10PM, Jan 19 at 12PM and on Jan 20 at 5PM this is all Mountain Standard time. Pass it on. Watch your check off dollars at good work.

Cowboys and pot-bellied pigs are a bad mix By Julie Carter I bet you thought this was going to be a New Year's Eve party report. With that same title, it could be, but it's not. It really is about pigs, real pigs, and in this case, a couple of the pet pot-bellied variety. Good cow horses...

One of the State's Oldest Cattle Ranches Faces An Uncertain Future By Zsombor Peter Albuquerque Journal; Journal Staff Writer BELL RANCH— Forget coal or cotton. Beneath the big blue skies of northeastern New Mexico's Harding County, cattle is king. "There's more cattle than there are...

The Christ in Christmas By Julie Carter At daylight on an icy, snowy Christmas morning, my dad went to the barn to do the usual daily chores. He was also keeping a secret there and the secret needed to be watered and fed. Hidden in our barn was a coal black Shetland pony he'd ended up with...

Our little town does this every Christmas Eve --5500 luminarias..it's a lot of work by a dedicated group of volunteers --

Okay, I fell of the edge of a very busy world sometime the middle of November with a number of shows/book signings, a full time job, and a trip to Texas over Thanksgiving and then by golly it was NFR and Christmas time --and I'm still about three laps behind but I don't recall EVER being caught...

Took this today for a cover shot of our entertainment magazine at the paper --to preview an up coming movie shot in Lincoln County -- kinda gives ya chills doesn't it?

and while we are on the topic, my friend Welda offered this for print last week :) If you don't know poop Welda McKinley Grider The newest among us ranchers are those who buy a part of the old American West and come out to shoot, root and toot on their own piece of glory in a subdivision...

It was bound to happen. That moment in time that keeps you humble and well, humble. Things have gone SO well in the book promotion/selling department. I have been accepted to Western Writers of America — qualified by the articles about the West and people in it and, of course, the book, Cowgirl...

They estimated more than 100,000 people at the mass ascension event this morning!

Heelers by any other name By Julie Carter Today we will look through the magnifying glass at team ropers, specifically the heeling end of the team. There are three basic reasons that team-roping headers choose the heelers they do. Top of the list is that they might actually have the skills...