Tag: rural
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Cancer and Ode to a Cowboy
Some of you may have noticed a Facebook status I posted in late July about cancer and Alzheimer’s needing to leave my family the hell alone. Alzheimer’s has and continues to take a toll on the Frobose, Buzzard and Baker branches of my family and I don’t know many people out there that cancer hasn’t touched in some…
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Wordless Wednesday
The past few days have been very relaxing and my photo stream explains why. These have all been on my Instagram account recently (@brandibuzzard) but if you don’t follow me on there (why not?) here’s what you missed. ‘ Party in your mouth cookies! Checking pastures and feeding cattle with my favorite cowboy.…
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My Baby: Semi-Wordless Wednesday
Nope, I’m not pregnant. Moving on – my children are much more expensive to feed and are considerably larger. My favorite child, my pride and joy, my baby – the superstar athlete, straight A student, cuddly cute one is Doc. You’ve seen him here. And there is the problem child – the one who sneaks…
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Proud to be a Redneck
I’m from the backhills of southeast Kansas – and damn proud of it. I grew up going mudding, wearing camo, attending bonfire parties in pastures, swimming in the horse tank and watching tractor pulls & demo derbys (and loving them). In addition to those ‘ignorant’ activities, I helped my family raise and train horses and…
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Kids ask questions, please provide answers!
My little sister is quite possibly the coolest person on Earth – at the moment she’s tied with Dr. Jim Nelssen but she’s only 6 and 3/4 so she has lots of time to move up. On the rare occasions that I get to see her, sometimes she’ll go with me to feed horses. We…