The struggles make you stronger
Eliza Blue hits the road on tour, but things don't go as planned and she finds herself scrambling for solutions.
Sharing the happy endings makes the sacrifice worthwhile
Eliza Blue shares the happy ending for a kitten she found on her ranch a couple of years ago.
Stillness of the soul can be found in the busiest of times
Eliza Blue reflects on how the real work of her adulthood is not learning how to do it all; it’s about learning how to joyfully leave work undone.
Chasing joy across the prairie and undertaking a new project
Eliza Blue is starting a traveling theater company with her birthday camper, a cobbled-together portable stage and JOY.
The return of rain shows us that Mother Nature has her own plans
Eliza Blue considers how rare and how vital rain is to ranchers and homesteaders in western South Dakota, grateful for the recent rain there.
Poor memory is a liability
Eliza Blue makes changes in her sheep flock to improve her fiber business, remembering lambing difficulties with the breed she chose after the fact.
It’s May on the prairie and all is well
May offers Eliza Blue and the animals on her ranch a reprieve from the sometimes harsh weather in South Dakota.
Hildy the ewe delivers a surprise
Hildy, an ewe Eliza Blue worried might be barren, surprised her with a giant lamb right at the end of her lambing season.
Time with little ones is worth it
While lambing season is expectedly exhausting, Eliza Blue knows it will end the same as it always does and be worth all the effort she put into it.
Living life with litters of lambs
Lambing season reminds Eliza Blue how much she loves being a shepherd and how thankful she is to be the caretaker of her flock.
