Changes of the West “After feeding this morning, I cleaned ditch with the ditcher, also some with the shovel. This afternoon I plowed and harrowed 5 acres.” Those words were my Father’s, recorded March 19th, 1934. He kept a daily diary that year from his one-room range outpost in Rangeley, Colorado and his description of…
Animals, particularly dogs have been studying humans for centuries. Since dogs proved they were better companions than meals they have heeled mankind across the globe, often herding game for them and cleaning up the scraps around camp that would otherwise lure bears or other unwanted pests. Humans learned to understand that animals warned of danger…
On a random winter evening I can hear one of the chairs in the living room, wham, wham, wham as it slams back and forth on its’ rockers. When I go to investigate, I see Erma the cat, wide-eyed, fur roughed up on her back standing a bit askew and motionless before she jumps back…
Wandering the lower hills as I do fairly often, I came upon a small rusty paint tin that at one time held watercolors and a brush and in the middle a mixing well. We have all seen them and perhaps used them as kids. I was on a no name ridge at the time of…
“The Low Down From the High Up” By Polly Oberosler
This is collection of some of my writings over the last 25 years or so.
It covers rural mountain life in Colorado, personal musings while sitting around the camp fire, growing up, etc. There is something for everyone!
A grassroots nonprofit aims to turn Alonzo Hartman’s elegant 1890s castle into a public house and event venue.
Busy? These are SO easy and SO good!
In the late 1600’s and early 1700’s people began to come to this country in large numbers. The young men of Ireland, who climbed aboard merchant ships often became indentured servants. Their passage was anything but easy, and many died on the hundreds of voyages from scurvy, viruses or injury as the ships made their…
The ingredients in this recipe will feed about 8-12 people which is fine for a potluck.
As we have listened to industrial grade BS over some of the last 6 -7 years, it would be good to move just a wee bit past it by understanding our democracy/republic. The very ones who are targets of the wrath of a sore loser are part of a body that, although needing adjustment only…