Did I Overreact?
Probably.... Turkey weekend is our biggest weekend of the year. I plan for it all year long. It's a great opportunity to meet my...
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Kristin Ramey
7 days ago8 min read
Republished: Diseases, Dilemmas, Decisions
ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN JULY 2013 I'm bringing back this post because it is relevant again today: OK dear customers, at the end of this...
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Kristin Ramey
Aug 154 min read
Boulder County Fair 2024
It takes me a while to decompress after fair. It's always such a whirlwind, and so different than daily life. Not a vacation, by any...
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Kristin Ramey
Feb 203 min read
New Additions to the Shirley Club
You know I like data, right? What would life be without my sheep spreadsheet... I was making some updates today - some that made me sad....
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Kristin Ramey
Feb 165 min read
It's Time
When I got my MBA over 20 years ago (WHAT?), I remember being struck in my entrepreneurship class by a statement my professor made - that...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 114 min read
A Tale of Two Mommies
Happy New Year! It's lamby time! We have a batch of young ewes that are pregnant and expecting any time now. Since the first of the year,...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 63 min read
Happy New Year!
Well, what a way to start the new year. New Years morning, I went out to let the animals out and feed the pigs. Their water tank was...
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Kristin Ramey
Oct 29, 20233 min read
Laverne and Shirley
Our first two sheep were named Laverne and Shirley. This isn't new news, they were such lovely sheep. If it weren't for them, we likely...
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Kristin Ramey
Oct 29, 20234 min read
Girl Dogs
Alright folks, I'm gonna lay it out there. For DECADES now, I have mostly had male dogs and I have always felt that I bond better with...
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Kristin Ramey
Oct 29, 20234 min read
Saying Goodbye to Ash
Being a livestock farm that produces meat, we say a lot of goodbyes here. Some are harder than others. Some we may put off longer than we...
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Kristin Ramey
Oct 10, 20234 min read
Farming and Failing Go Hand in Hand
OK, I'm not saying that all Farming is a failure, and I am not saying farms or farmers are failures. But I am saying that if you are...
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Kristin Ramey
Jul 2, 20235 min read
I Shouldn't Complain About the Rain
I KNOW! I'm a farmer in Colorado, we should never complain about free water from the sky. Folks out east of the MIssissippi don't...
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Kristin Ramey
Jun 2, 20237 min read
And now a 3-legged lamb
Yeah, it's been a year. And I am making decisions as an animal-lover, not as a farmer. Stuff happens, but too much stuff has been...
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Kristin Ramey
Jun 1, 20238 min read
A Belated Goodbye to Hattie
A warning that this post is very disjointed. I started it months ago, and couldn't finish it. So some parts read in past tense, and...
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Kristin Ramey
May 23, 20232 min read
Eggs, Stains, and Colors
OK, I'll warn you first that this might be stream-of-consciousness, it kind of came to me while I was washing eggs yesterday. I noticed...
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Kristin Ramey
Apr 26, 20232 min read
And now there are two Rock Stars!
I know I've spoken before about the plethora of spreadsheets I keep to manage the farm. Or, Spreadsheeps, as it were. I track the...
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Kristin Ramey
Apr 22, 20237 min read
I have a moment to catch up... and process some grief
I was looking through photos today and a wave of sadness hit me. Wix recently added a 500MB limit to storage here, so I had to clean up...
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Kristin Ramey
Apr 21, 20234 min read
Thank you, Volunteers!
We finally got the barn cleaned!! This has become a real struggle for us, physically, as the years go on. In the last 2 years or so, age...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 7, 20234 min read
What is up with eggs these days!
OK, let me break a few things down for you, and not the eggs, not this time! I can't decide whether to talk from the outside in or the...
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Kristin Ramey
Jan 2, 20232 min read
2022 in Review
Hey, that rhymes! Just me? OK... I can't really say that 2022 was a remarkable or unremarkable. It was a year. It feels like a year that...
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