Awestruck and thankful for starry night
Eliza Blue enjoys a sky full of stars on a recent pasture walk on her South Dakota ranch.
What we save, saves us
Eliza Blue finds comfort and hope in the resilient little kitten she's been tasked with bottle feeding around the clock.
An imperfect shepherd is thankful for the perfect sheep
The Clun Forest sheep have performed better than Eliza Blue could have hoped, especially during lambing season.
Coming out of the darkness of a long and cold winter
Maybe, this will be the year Eliza Blue sets some better boundaries around her time so she can say "yes" more often to the things that feed her soul.
A bird in the nest
Early in the summer, two gray birds with pale yellow chest feathers started building a nest in the exterior eave of one of Eliza Blue's outbuildings.
No shortage of surprises on the farm
Eliza Blue is reminded that dealing with livestock and weather are two entities only a fool would claim mastery over.
Shouldn’t have been a cowboy
Eliza Blue is better than no help at all around the ranch, but sometimes only barely. Recently, she leveled up to cattle sorting.
Grasshoppers invade South Dakota this year
This is the part of the summer when Eliza Blue discovers what the defining insect infestation of the season is going to be. It looks like grasshoppers.
Letting go is for the best
Eliza Blue learned lessons she expected to during lambing season this year. With the help of Mother Nature, it turned out to be her most successful one yet.
Battling the swarms
South Dakota's mosquito season is typically gentler than other places Eliza Blue has lived, but this year has been a different story.
