Week 29--Ranch

It was quiet here at the ranch. We can appreciate that, can't you? Gave us some time to think about WHAT to do with this week's word. "Ranch" conjures up all sorts of associations--yummy salads and dips rank prominently. Oh, yeah!

Freebird decided to illustrate a ranchero, a cowboy working a ranch:

Ranch(ero) by
Freebird

Our official response is a (teenie) rendering of our little ranch house, the emphasis on the style of the abode.

Ranch (House)
by Cheryl

Oh, home on the range, where the deer and the antelope roam!

Seldom is heard a discouraging word and the skies are not cloudy all day!

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Until next time...

Home, Home on the Range

Last time it was all about the banana joke. This week we're singing about where the deer and the antelope roam. Not far from here are prairie grasslands where that really happens, just like that.
Right here in town, it's open range and we get surprised occasionally with cows chomping on the vegetation. It's why our little half-acre is fenced.

Montana Ranch
Angus Beef

Yes, it's the Wild, Wild West.

Ross Martin and Robert Conrad

Or the new(er) Wild, Wild West

Will Smith, Selma Hayek and Kevin Kline

Or you may be thinking The Duke

John Wayne
The Comancheros

Or the Outlaw Josey Wales

Clint Eastwood

You may want to pretend to be a cowboy for a week

Paws Up Ranch
Luxury Vacations

You can buy a ranch:

Modern Ranch Architecture

You can live in a ranch:

Ranch Style Home From
The Plan Collection

Or create your own brand as they did when the West was won (assuming you had your own cows or sheep):

Brands from
Kaufman, Texas

Or make your own:

Ranch Dressing Recipe
from The Huffington Post
YUM!

Not a discouraging word would be heard over that!
And true to the song, the skies are not cloudy all day today!

Cloudless Sky by
Monte Stevens

Show us your ranch twinchies! Send them along with any notes and/or blog links to:
1 xeritas @ gmail . com by 2 PM Arizona Time, Tuesday, April 19, 2016. We'll collect them all and post them later the same day.