Most of the time blogs are for information, for making money, the best travel advice, or the best place to eat.  But sometimes they are just stories to let you know if you want to do something bad enough, no matter what it is, you can!  Every person should have a dream and know they can follow it to where ever it leads them.  So here is my story about how my greatest dream turned into an awesome adventure.     My greatest dream and adventure ever was when I moved up here to a very rural community in Idaho. This was the life I had always dreamed of and now I was li ..read more

Ugh! You’ve spent all day picking, cleaning, and getting everything together for your awesome new peony jelly. Boiling, stirring, boiling, timing, and pouring. And after all that, your Peony jelly is not jelly, it’s syrup. Now, what do you do?  There’s nothing worse than working all day on something and not having it turn out like you planned.  So what do you do? I just had that happen to me last week. I was so upset because I had followed a different recipe for a jelly I very much wanted to try. Peony petals jelly, but the person who wrote the recipe was not a jelly maker. I’m not ..read more

How much do you spend a month on chemical pain relievers? How much do you know about what they contain or what they do to your body?  Wouldn’t you rather take a natural plant substance to relieve the pain that you can pick in your yard?  I am going to give you nine extraordinary reasons to eliminate or at least cut back on your chemical pain relievers. We all know everyone experiences pain. If you are over twenty, you are more than likely looking for something to get rid of pain naturally. Without using addicting or harmful drugs. Whether you are an athlete, gardener, weekend warrior ..read more

      How are people able to sell goat milk legally? Have you ever wondered how people sell Goat or Sheep Cheese, Yogurt, or raw milk legally without having a huge Grade-A Dairy?  If so, you need to read this! Don’t lose out on this ridiculously easy way to increase your income and have fun along the way. Goat and sheep milk and their products have been around for centuries.  Cheeses, yogurts, keifers, butter, and raw milk have been feeding thousands.  Why is there now a problem selling this great product to the world?  Politics! According to GARDENTECH, as ..read more

  Why is it so difficult to keep my animals from getting out of their pen/pasture? Here I will try to help answer this and many other fencing questions.   I know you are asking if there is any type of fencing out there that I can use that they can’t escape from? They can’t crawl under, climb and jump over every fence I have put up. Keeping livestock where you want them can be a never-ending job. It takes time from other chores, leads to injured animals, and loss of assets from what they get into. It can even lead to loss of life if they get out on the road and a car hits them ..read more

This post may contain affiliate links at no additional cost to you.  By making your purchases through the links on this website, DSB may make a small percentage at no direct cost to you. DSB only promotes products we use & truly believe in.  DSB thanks you for your support!       On the morning of July 8, 2010, at the age of 58, I found out the hard way what having several stroke risk factors means. The stroke began sometime in my sleep. Waking up I found my speech was strange and difficult to make clear. I sounded like I had a mouth full of novocaine. There was s ..read more

Humanities Lost Knowledge.  Have you ever wondered where all our knowledge goes?  The great knowledge that we have accumulated throughout our lives.  All the things we have learned, seen, felt, experienced, heard are who we are and when we are gone, where does all that go? I would hope that some of it would have been conveyed to my children, grandchildren, and friends. Is there a place in the universe that stores it all in a secret box just waiting to be opened? Yes, there is. It’s our family’s and friends’ knowledge turned into memories. Express yourself. Share your knowledge ..read more

    This post may contain affiliate links at no additional cost to you.  By making your purchases through the links on this website, DSB may make a small percentage at no direct cost to you. DSB only promotes products we use & truly believe in.  DSB thanks you for your support!     What an absolutely wild day having goat kids! A set of triplets and 2 sets of twins in the last three hours!  Well, It all started last night as I was settling in for the night and my sister called.  Her phone call was to let me know she had a ewe in labor and having prob ..read more

I love lambing and kidding time.  It’s that wonderful time of year again. Lambs being born and jumping in the snow. Goat kids being born, somewhere but not here yet. Calves are running and jumping for joy to be alive.  What a wonderful time on the ranch.  Except when everything goes wrong. Having animals you know things don’t always go as planned.                   You make plans in the fall to put the ram in so the ewes will lamb at a certain time, and only the ones you want to be bred. But sometimes animals have other ideas an ..read more

  The best part of ranch life is the animals you care for.  They become a part of your life.  Having animals has always been a lifelong dream. Caring for them, new life entering the world, and knowing you are responsible for them is a wonderful experience. The cuddling, playing, watching them grow and play. Unfortunately, they grow up, and the work begins. Often I am asked how I do things with my animals, so I decided to put together some of the most asked about situations and their resolutions. For the most part, I do the procedures by myself. So I have figured out how to do t ..read more