The ongoing battle over a Ten Commandments monument erected on the courthouse lawn in Stigler, Oklahoma between the Haskell County Board of Commissioners and the ACLU has finally come to an end with the U.S. Supreme Court declining to even review the case.  This follows a bitter struggle for the… Read full post »

Corey Haim, teenage heartthrob of the 80’s, died early this morning in his mother’s apartment.  TMZ is reporting that he woke around 1:00 AM and collapsed in front of his mother.  Emergency personnel found him alive but very weak.  He was rushed to the hospital and/… Read full post »

Tonight’s show was touted as the most dramatic in Bachelor history.  I’m beginning to think they’re in on the joke. 

Still in St. Lucia, the show starts out with the all-important meeting of the parents – Jake’s parents.  Tenley is first and of course… Read full post »

This week’s episode begins with Jake once again going on and on about how he was “Mr. Dateless in high school.”  We get it.  Poor Jake was a nerd back in the day - he was picked on.

Courtesy:  Life & Style

 I don’t know,… Read full post »

Week six of The Bachelor started with Jake telling us how excited he was for the hometown dates.  The newest word in his vocabulary seems to be “insight”.  It’s too bad that insight doesn’t go very deep.  He mentions that he “could be proposing in a couple… Read full post »

A lot can be said of my new state.  As a Texan, I grew up making fun of it.  So much so that when we decided to buy here, I found a place as close to the Red River as I could.  I still haven’t quite adjusted to life here.  While… Read full post »

Let’s face it; the last thing anyone wants to do in the days following Thanksgiving is cook.  What took an entire day to prepare was wolfed down in sheer minutes – leaving its mark with bloated bellies, dirty dishes and leftovers that pack the fridge.  For many, just the smell o… Read full post »

The costume closet was a place of wonder growing up.  Need a wig?  You got it.  Need a fur stole?  Yep.  Need some skin tight, paint-splattered tights?  We have those too.  It seems as though my mom saved everything that could possibly come in handy some day.… Read full post »

It was 1981.  I watched with the amazement of my seven year-old eyes as MTV came on to the airwaves.  I sat on the floor in front of the enormous TV encased in oak, my eyes, inches from the screen.  As if something possessed me, I rose to my… Read full post »

Tick. Tock.  It’s all I can hear.  Tick. Tock. 

It’s Tuesday and the branding is on Saturday.  Preferably, to hold a branding, you need corrals.  Ah, yes, the all-important corrals.  We do have them planned out and marked, no thanks to the power and water co… Read full post »

So, I’ve been thinking about doing a series of posts about life on the ranch from a city girl’s perspective.  I was born and bred in a place where you put on make-up to go to the gym.  Where your hair is always “done”.  Where there is gridlock and tall, shiny… Read full post »

I came to realize today that there is something seriously wrong with me.  "Blapples."  It set me off.  One word and I almost peed my pants.  Granted, I was watching a movie and it was funny, but I could not stop laughing.  As tears streamed down my face and my husband sl… Read full post »

This is what the front of a new McCain/Palin mailer declares.  Hey, I totally agree with that!&… Read full post »

"John McCain recognizes that agriculture is one of America's greatest strategic assets."

Stategic Assets.  This is the first sentence on the McCain/Palin website under their Propserity for Rural America platform.  In the following two paragraphs, it states that leadership in agriculture is… Read full post »