DeadOxRanch

12/01/2025

07/10/2025

The weather forecast looks great for the Rally. We are hosting campers at DeadOxRanch in Keating Valley, off Hwy. 86 on the way to Hell’s Canyon.

$60 RALLY PACKETS! A Baker City Motorcycle Rally packer includes A lanyard that offers discounts at participating restaurants, A 2025 Rally Sticker, patch, T-shirt. Pin and Pamphlet that has all the rides and events happening in Baker City during the weekend. 3 shirt options are available to choose from with packet!

06/24/2025

Many of you are familiar with the "Chef-Shack", our indoor-outside kitchen... Wellll, apparently, last fall, I failed to properly drain the water system, and it FROZE and broke. Totally. Fortunately, the "system" was not too complicated... but it all has to be replaced... AND, its pretty well buried in the cabinets... The "Good News" is that I'm replacing the broken PVC with "Pex"... much more resilient.

04/07/2025

Haven't posted anything creative in a while... This is my UMPTEENTH re-do of the booth in the "Chef-Shack"... I just keep trying to make it better. Well, I may be there now!
The seating is built almost entirely of panel doors, with some antique legs. It had been "done" for a coupla years, BUT it had serious issues concerning accessibility... SOoo, I tore it out, disassembled it, and turned everything upside-down and backwards and put it back. Meanwhile, I knocked down the HUGE (42"x96"w/2, 16" leaves) dining table, cut it down to 30" wide x 90" long, into a "kidney" shape, sanded and refinished it. The upholstery is burlap coffee bags. I think I can live with it now.

08/15/2024

Still pluggin' away at this stuff...

08/15/2024

Well, its BEEN a while, but we're BACK... into the house remodel... The floor is awesome...Thanks for all your help, Justin! AND, as it should be, getting that MAJOR hassle done with, just opened up a whole WORLD of MORE projects.... Such as... the wainscoting for the perimeter walls... Now HERE'S a cluster... A coupla years ago, Janie and I responded to a call from our old friend Bob Haines, concerning a BUNCH of recycled bead-board from one of the old brothels downtown Baker City... REALLY nice stuff, ca. 1910... and FREE. You folks know what a magnet THAT word is for me... Well, we hauled it off... and it sat in our boneyard for a couple years... Well, its TIME HAS COME.
Pressure washed, sun-dried, sanded, stripped, (this stuff is 3 1/2" wide) cut to length and varnished. And NOW, installed. Still have to mill mouldings and stuff for windows and trim, but I have one corner mostly done. Can't BELIEVE how time-consuming all that is! HOWEVER, here's a few 'pics for you.

04/29/2024

I finished the barn quilt accent piece for the Little Gray House. It looks great. Mike is getting ready to hang it up…the quilt board that is!