Are YOU Ready to Ride and Camp?

Posted by admin on September 2, 2009

It’s getting cooler outside and folks begin to want to go riding and cmaping more. And after a great ride in the woods what is better than great food. Check this out:

It’s a fact that food just tastes better outdoors. Now with 101 Camping & Outdoor Recipes, even campers who have never cooked anything more complicated than S’mores can make great meals and snacks over the campfire. You no longer need to sacrifice eating well just because you are not in your home kitchen. 101 Camping & Outdoor Recipes provides you with 101 delicious, and easy-to-prepare recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner that are sure to make you a hit around the campfire.

And itf you do want to go riding and don’t have a horse. Contact us here at Sierra Ranch. We love to ride and have many horses that would love to take you out riding and camping.

Just one of the many things we do at Sierra Ranch.

Horse News to Use – August

Posted by admin on August 3, 2009

BARN FIRES: AVOID HAY BALE COMBUSTION

Experienced agricultural producers in the southern Great Plains know that low wind speeds, high humidity, moist hay, and hot temperatures can be a recipe for disaster. Under such a set of circumstances, tightly stacked hay bales have been known to combust. Without proper preventive measures, hay barns or any other structures close to the blazing bales potentially might be lost. Continue reading…

AGED HORSE HEALTH SCREENINGS RECOMMENDED

Lameness, weight loss, colic, and equine Cushing’s syndrome are the four top reasons for euthanizing an older horse, said Catherine McGowan, BVSc, PhD, RCVS, European specialist in equine internal medicine, who presented research by Thomas McGowan, BSc, DVM, PhD, at the American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Forum, held June 3-6 in Montr�al, Quebec. Continue reading…

CRIBBING: CAN YOU STOP IT?

Many horses kept in unnatural environments and subjected to the stress of performance careers resort to repetitive behaviors (called stereotypies) such as cribbing, weaving, or stall walking. The cribbing horse grabs a surface with his top incisors, arches his neck, opens his throat, and swallows air with a grunting sound and a backward pull of the head. This activity wears down the top incisors and develops unsightly muscles under the neck that can interfere with proper neck flexion when ridden. Serious cribbers might lose weight because they become so addicted to their habit they’d rather crib than eat. Once the habit starts, many horses keep cribbing even when turned out to pasture. Continue reading…

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1993 Dodge One Ton Dually Diesel Truck – $7995

Posted by admin on April 7, 2009

This is my pride an joy, but I have found a new hauler for my trailer that is much more comfy. Never thought I would find something that would haul like this truck, but did. So now my baby is for sale.

This 1993 Dodge 1 ton dually diesel is set up for hauling. It will haul most anything. Guys at the feed store would come off the dock to see what it was. You can put 2 tons of feed and the silly thing won’t even go down. Over load springs are awesome! It has 411 gears on the rear. Top speed empty is about 70, but makes it great traveling the mountains with four horses in the Sundowner. It has a gooseneck ball with rings. The ball folds down. It has a bumper pull ball as well as a tractor attachment (for lack of better term). We have used it to haul fertilizer from the feed store. It’s a 5 speed manual. Jump seats in the crew cab. AM/FM CD player. Great tires.

We bought the truck in 2000 with 138850 miles. We replaced the engine shortly after buying the truck (within a year) and about a year later had to rebuild the rear end and transmission. It now has 183,650 miles on it. We keep synthetic oil in the motor and change it regularly.

This truck is ready to start pulling your horses to your next playday, trail ride or other event. Email us for more details. We are negotiable on the price, but this is a fair price for the work this truck will do for you!

Goings on at our house…

Posted by admin on March 29, 2009

I know I have been out of touch a bit. Had a billion things going on and no time to write. But today gotta get stuff off my chest. Hopefully you have seen the countdown. We are down to 2 weeks and it can’t be soon enough. For both parties. Others might have followed my Twittering (http://twitter.com/sierraranch) and know about what has been happening.

In the mean time things have gone from bad to worse to normal again. Last Sat. (3/21) we got a call that Rick’s dad was in the hospital and not doing well. We needed to be in Agleton TX before the youngest brother got on the plane to go back to NC. The middle brother was flying in later on Sun. So we made a 9 hour driving trip and got to the hospital about 2AM and visited a second. We couldn’t find his house even with the GPS. How many cattle paths can be named Bastrop Drive??? Stayed 4 hours in a hotel, got up and visited with Dick and others at the hospital. We followed a neighbor to his house and went back to wait.

Greg got in about 11PM Sun. They stayed at a hotel. Doctors would not really give us a good time frame for the end. The friends had arranged for Dick to come home on Monday since nothing could really be done. The boys got things worked out on Monday and their dad came home. Several step kids and many friends came by the house to see him. We stayed there with him and the nurse. One set of step kids slept in the downstairs.

Tuesday Dick got quieter and we thought this might be the day, but he held on through another great gathering and the morning. Greg’s daughter got in and said her goodbyes and shortly later the nurse came out and let us know he passed. Dick was diagnosed with lung cancer. As they were looking they found cancer in his bones, spine, lythm system, and who knows where else. He just wanted to die at home and did. He didn’t want to linger and didn’t. The nurses made sure he was comfortable.

Greg was listed at the executor, but wanted to pass this on to Rick since we live closer, so know we get to oversee the disspurment of the estate. Any one want a nice house on the Bastrop Bayou? We have a court date in about a month.

So far we have inherited a no tailed cat named Bob. Allyson is taming him. I think he may have been an inside cat at one time, but he was an outside cat at Dick’s. He is at least nuetered. And he is not a manx. It feels like something cut his tail off. I even snuck Bob into a hotel room to get him home.

We will also be taking over Dick’s gun show business. They boys split up the guns he had, but we currently have all the parts, gun smithing tools, and other stuff. Rick is researching what to do with this. He might actually get to quit work sooner which we would all like. He can see this as a great side business to have with the horse operation.

We went through most of the stuff in the house and have a big job ahead of us, but we will take the challenge. That’s what the oldest do. Middle children are so funny. We got things tied up pretty well and headed out on Thursday evening so that we could be home to get Allyson ready for the prom. Rick told the family that we need to focus on Allyson now that his dad is gone. Everyone agreed. We hope to bring her down with us when we go next.

The whole week that we were in TX the kids were being watch over by our version of a village. Allyson stayed part of the weekend with my Mom. Our neighbor that lives behind us and takes Ashley to work made sure that Allyson got ont he bus every morning before taking Ashley. I called each morning to wake Allyson and got to talk

to her all the way to the bus. She is so funny. Then after school mom made sure they had food. Mom even spent Sunday trying to teach the kids to clean house. (What Fun!) I don’t know that it worked , but after a week of stepping into my shoes, my Mother has much more understanding of what I go through and what works. Now she even understand the count down. LOL!!!

Allyson had fun at the prom. She was taken out to eat at Olive Garden, petted fishes, danced to death, and then went to the after party. Ryan got to go to the after party some and they had fun. It went from rain to snow and by the time I went to pick her up from a friend’s it was snowing buckets.

OMG it is SO NOT suppose to snow like this time of year! For freaking sake it’s SPRING! We got at least four inches and will have the world’s largest muddiest mess, but at least it’s moisture. We needed it so bad. Just this all at once thing is a bit much. What is so funny is seeing the green grass sticking out of the snow. LOL!

Well, I better get to my ratkilling. I am 1100+ emails behind in one email account and 12,000+ behind in another. All my IM stuff is falling behind and I really need to get all the bills and estate stuff up to date. But my desk is a total mess. LOL!

And my cat is mad she doesn’t have place to sit. And just 14 more days until Ashley’s driver’s test. We can’t wait. OK, enough rambling. Must go do something. Not sure what, but something! Now it makes sense that the newsletter for the ranch has not gone out and the million other things I need to do.

Hope you had a quieter week than we have! Hope you have a wonderful next week!

Patricia Reszetylo’s 40th Birthday

Posted by admin on March 16, 2009

My friend Patricia Reszetylo’s birthday is March 17th. She’s committed to having that day mark the start of a lot of exciting things for her home business. (Just like many of the rest of us are doing!)

And what I want to tell you about is how YOU can benefit.
( There is a LOT of WIIFM for you here. )

WIIFM = What’s In It For ME?

You do like horses, right? You’re on my newsletter list – so that’s an unnecessary question.

Do you have any interest in running a successful website? What’s successful? How about one that brings you visitors from the search engines, and one that makes you money?

[ Hey, let me sign up for that call already!
http://sierraranchok.net/ClubHorseTalk]

And building a website isn’t an overnight thing. How about another partner of ours that has been teaching his students to make 4 figures from eBay with a simple, blueprint-style paint-by-numbers program? He has students that make eBay sales in 24 hours after getting started with his program. And he has people making up to $5,016 in 6 weeks – and that was a person who had never sold anything on eBay before.

Did I mention that an 8-time national champ at Dressage is pitching in! Get access to HER Q-n-A calls as part of this, too.

The doors will be opening after Patricia’s Parade of Breeds call Wednesday dealing with the American Drum Horse. Prices will be going up after Patricia’s birthday – Tuesday the 17th of March.

Check this out! Join the preview call if you’d like more details, or if Patricia or Tim can answer any questions for you.

Attend the Preview Call:
http://sierraranchok.net/ClubHorseTalk

We’ll keep you updated on this special deal:
http://sierraranchok.net/ClubHorseTalk

Best of wishes,
Deborah Stowers
Sierra Ranch
www.sierraranchok.com
www.sierraranchok.net

P.S. Patricia wants me to ask if you’d like to borrow her $2,000 Laser Dressage saddle for a year? Check out the new HorseSalt site at: http://sierraranchok.net/HorseSalt