The 2015 season has definitely begun. As I write this, there is a group event going on in the barn. The garden is taking shape as more plants go into the ground and we get rid of a few more [...]
Can you believe the weather this winter? There have been plenty of records set all over the country, I think. Ninety degree weather in March in Phoenix, Arizona, where we came to escape the winter up north. Sixty and seventy [...]
At the Dude Ranchers’ Association convention we attended recently, someone brought up the idea that the term “dude ranch” may be confusing to some people. Given that the word “dude” does not have the same definition in our minds that [...]
There’s more to running a dude ranch vacation and bed & breakfast operation than riding horses and cooking chili. Of course, summer is the busy season with all the guests arriving for their vacations and getaways. But winter is the [...]
This is the time of year, when things have slowed down, the weather makes you glad to be inside, and you enjoy taking it easy for a little while each day. I like to sit down with a pen and [...]
As you have read in previous blogs, Long Hollow Ranch has been a working central Oregon ranch since the late 1800s. In spite of a good deal of searches of Deschutes county and Crook county historical records, we have been [...]
We just made it to the middle of September and we have experienced our first significant frost. This is a normal late summer/early fall occurrence in Central Oregon. It freezes just enough to blacken the tops of some plants and [...]
