05/06/2021
PART THREE: the Mother’s Day gift that started it all
For Mother’s Day 2020, Keith casually asked what I wanted?
I jokingly said “a cow / calf pair never hurt anyone”
The weekend before Mother’s Day, a little trailer was backing down our driveway with our first Heifer.
When I say we weren’t prepared, I quite literally mean it.
The previous owners had a little horse pen, so naturally, thats where she went as it was the only fenced area we had at the time.
We ran to Tractor Supply and like giddy kids getting their first puppy, we walked up and down the aisles looking for “cow stuff”
I still roll my eyes at myself. 😂
We came home, fed her the most expensive hay we’ve ever purchased placed it in old tires and just stood against the crooked fence feeling so at peace; we did it - we started.
That Mother’s Day Heifer was the push I didn’t know I needed.
I could have talked about starting a Ranch for forever but it was never the right time, it wasn’t the right place, continuous excuses always seemed to flow - until she arrived.
Month after month we grew.
Keith learned how to fence, we purchased equipment, sourced local hay and learned as we went.
We started thinking about the future of our Ranch - we loved our little house in the woods but if we wanted to keep growing, we knew we couldn’t stay there full time.
A few years before, I had felt God shut the door on our dreams to move.
It all changed when one email popped in and it was like God opened the door, winked and said “go for it.”
Part four - tomorrow✨