Loving things that are not easy to love makes the things that are easier to love even more loveable

Getting a puppy in the winter is ill-advised, but on a ranch, winter is by far our slowest, calmest time. During the early spring there’s the constant crush of calving and lambing, in the late spring there’s the rush of getting in the garden, and in the summer and fall there’s all the jobs we know we have to get done before snow flies again. Deep winter is usually the closest those of us working…