Wordless Wednesday: Smoke
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View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Miss Schieser 1925
This is a follow up to my last Throwback Thursday post. I’m sincerely hoping someone will recognize some more children in these photos. As someone who loves family history, I get a real kick when I can...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Mrs. Eldred 1924
Slowly, I am making progress through my family photos. There is one album among them that belonged to Ella Byrd Brown as a teen. It has some pretty amazing photos. I think I need to get through it...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: September 3, 1945
I spent last Thursday driving around North Eastern California with my Dad. This is interesting because this is the first time we’ve done this in my adult life. The Brown side my my family has history...
View ArticleEarth Day, Grazing and Fire Prevention
Over the past two years our ranch has been involved with two fires. In 2017, the Cherokee Fire burned our ranch destroying homes, trees, barns, out buildings, water infrastructure, fences and corrals....
View ArticleCamp Fire: Masks Are Important
This is the before and after photo of the masks I’ve been wearing to protect myself from the smoke and ash in the air. The Camp Fire has made the air toxic here. My eyes, skin and throat feel so …...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Etta Grant and Sammie Brown
If you’ve been following this blog for a while, you’ll remember I started searching for people in an old family photo album of mine. These photos cover an interesting time span for my family, from the...
View ArticleGuest Post: A Piggy Tale
Living and working on this ranch give me the opportunity to share this lifestyle with others. Sometimes that is as simple as inviting friends to come over for a hike, but sometimes it involves giving...
View ArticleWordless Wednesday: Pomegranate
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View ArticleWordless Wednesday: Then and Now
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View ArticleWordless Wednesday: Exploring What Remains
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View ArticleCherokee Fire
I’ll write about this fire later. I’m still shell-shocked. Just know we all made it out ok! None of my animals were harmed and both of the main ranch homes survived! Thank you Cal Fire! The post...
View ArticleThe Saga of Sam Brown’s Wedding Table
When I was a very little girl, I used to ride my horse over to my grandfather’s ranch from our house. At that point our families ranches reached from one end of Indian Valley to the other. It was still...
View ArticleGrandma Halsey’s Holiday Punch
This doesn’t even count as a recipe. It’s more of a happy memory. When I taste this punch, I am 8 years old again. It’s Christmas, I’m surrounded by my playing cousins. This punch, or a variation, was...
View ArticleThe “Farm Wife”
I used to think I wanted to be a farm wife. I always thought I would follow my Mom’s example. Working unpaid for the ranch. Doing the same work as the men, plus the books, the cooking, cleaning and...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Margie
This photo is going to be a hard one, I’m skeptical if I’ll ever know more about it then I already do. But then, my readers have surprised me again and again with who they know. This photo comes from...
View ArticleGuest Post: Jack Hopkins, Plumas County Logger
This is one of the most interesting guest posts I’ve posted. Most people don’t think of logging when they think of agriculture, but sure enough, it’s part of it. The small community, where we summer...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: May 4, 1947 “Shirley”
This is another photo from the envelope labeled “Sammie’s Friends”. This photo has “To Sammie, A swell guy, Sincerely, Shirley May 4, 1947” written on the back of it, no last name, no place. This looks...
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Throwback Thursday: Wayne McCoy April 2, 1944
This week’s Throwback Thursday is another photo from “Sammie’s Friends” envelope. I’m going through that envelope because some of the pictures do have names and dates on the back making it much easier...
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Throwback Thursday: Sammie Brown Jr & Jinks Retzlaff
This is yet another photo from the envelope marked “Sammie’s Friends“. Unfortunately, there is no date or writing on the back of this photo so I don’t know much. I do know who this beautiful woman is...
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