About Burnt Biscuit Ranch

Each day brings us face to face with God’s wonders from the tiniest insect building and tending its environment to dependency upon the weather to tend to ours. Those of us who are ranch-bound soon find that this is rarely a problem because living in the country is a gratifying lifestyle.

Our days begin with feedings and ground work on our horses. Before we get cleaned up for the day, there are stalls to muck and a chicken house to clean. Mowing, fence-mending and dozens of maintenance chores sometimes delay our morning shower until well into the afternoon. All the while, we smell the sweet scent of horse coat and fresh air blowing across the pastures. The sounds of heifers calling their calves and horses nickering when they see us are soothing to our ears. Even the repeated screech of “What’s Up” when our guineas warn us of visitors or the rooster who sometimes forgets the words to “Cock-A-Doodle-Doo” make us smile with contentment of where we live and why we do all we do.

In the early evenings, horses are swapped in and out from the pasture while the guineas are rounded up back into the henhouse. Once again grain is poured into the feed buckets and hay racks are filled before the barn lights are turned out for the night.

Our nights are spent on the porch where we enjoy the passing of an occasional herd of deer while listening to coyotes in the distance. Fireflies are our ‘street lights’ and the owls are our entertainment as they fly from tree to tree. Occasionally we have visitors including the red fox, a skittish bob cat and the naughty feral hogs.

Yes, it is all hard work but so very, very gratifying.