Oak Creek Ranch

We are ready to start a new chapter... so the ranch is for sale.
https://www.placervilleliving.net/listing/mlsid/148/propertyid/222108391/

The Orchard Takes a Hit You wouldn't know it to look at the garden, but the orchard is really having a hard spring. We had a very late, very cold, and prolonged, ...

https://aspenmeadows.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-story-of-flash.html

The Story of Flash Flash was born in 1996 and spent his early years in Kansas (where he was born) and Arkansas where he carried a flag in chuck wagon races. ...

https://aspenmeadows.blogspot.com/2022/03/the-dogs.html

The Dogs We have three dogs here on the ranch with us. Many of you will remember Kersey, our yellow lab. She came to us as a puppy right around th...

https://aspenmeadows.blogspot.com/2022/03/in-like-lamb-out-like-lion.html

In Like A Lamb, Out Like a Lion? March started off clear, warm and sunny. The weather was great for working in the garden and on projects but not so great for our drought....

https://aspenmeadows.blogspot.com/2022/03/february-wwoofers.html

February WWOOFers We joined a program called Worldwide Work On Organic Farms (WWOOF) three years ago. The program offers people the opportunity to work on f...

eBird Checklist - 21 Feb 2022 - 3851 Leisure Lane - 7 species (+1 other taxa) Submitted by Annette Mickelson.

https://aspenmeadows.blogspot.com/2021/09/making-some-changes.html

Making Some Changes While Brett and I (and the animals) were evacuated and waiting to be allowed back home, we did a lot of thinking and talking about changes ...

https://aspenmeadows.blogspot.com/2021/09/evacuation-goats-perspective.html

Evacuation — A Goat’s Perspective When we received the first evacuation warning, we packed our bags and started moving the horses. It took a full day, but we got them all t...

https://aspenmeadows.blogspot.com/2021/09/evacuated.html

Evacuated We have been impacted by the Caldor fire. We have been evacuated. We are okay. The animals are okay. The ranch is still standing. We a...

Brett and the Wwoofer staying with us this month have been busy. Their first project was to complete this new pasture fence. The fence was moved to the other side of the stream bed which opens up the view from the front porch and, more importantly, means we no longer have to pick up horse manure from amongst the rocks in the stream. For some reason, the horses just loved pooping in the stream bed.