“Taffy” Filly Color Guessing Winner

There were four color possibilities for Jewels’s foal, if you remember. See post >> Six entries guessed “palomino,” the smaller of the odds, and they guessed correctly! JASMINE is the winner (since I have only one prize to award). She has 48 ho...

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Mar 28, 2023
A Colt and a Filly

Believe this if you will. Kristel and I were up all night long. Both mares delivered within six hours of each other! This is so unusual and we are dead tired, but I wanted to announce the entries that qualify for the drawing (those who guessed right...

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Mar 27, 2023
Foal Watch

So… We see Scarlett’s pH dropping and get her stall all ready. She is eating hay. So Kristel says, “I need to tell Kristi her pH has dropped to 6.2.” okay. Fine. I head for the RV and Kristel stops me. “You have to watch her.” I stop. “What? Watch he...

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Mar 25, 2023
Britches Are Not for Little Girls

Listen to more audio short stories in Andi’s Attic >> Mrs. M has recorded another Andi short story, “Britches Are Not for Little Girls” (from Tales from the Circle C Ranch collection, when Andi is young). If you want awesome novel-length audio...

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Mar 24, 2023
Rosa Garduno Character Quiz

See past Character Quizzes >> And the winner is NATALIE L. I salute you all. Thanks for sending in so many fun entries! I received 33 entries! Out of those 33, an eleven got 100% (either all right or missing one but filling out the bonus questi...

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Mar 22, 2023
A Respite

In case you don’t know what a respite is, it means a break, a rest or relief from something difficult or unpleasant. It’s been a very long week on the Ross ranch. We were sure Jewels was going to foal a couple of days before the earliest guess of Mar...

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Mar 21, 2023
Mail-order Brides

Note: This is a true story! Only the names have been changed to merge it with the Circle C Adventures. Read more Andi’s Journal and Blasts from the Past in Andi’s Attic >> April 1876 After I got used to going to school way back when I was six,...

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Mar 20, 2023
New Digital Puzzles

If you haven’t already seen the four new digital puzzles I put up, here is the link. Enjoy! New Digital Puzzles >>

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Mar 17, 2023
Loading Hay Then and Now

I took this picture today of the kids unloading hay. We simply rolled it onto the tractor’s long forks and then it zips over to the hay barn and the tractor dumps it over. This made me think of how they might have done all this on the Circle C. Hence...

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Mar 16, 2023
Foal Colors Guessing Giveaway

There are three fun giveaways in March/April. First of all, there is no guessing game for Scarlett’s foal. Scarlett is 100% sorrel, and the sire is 100% cremello. Scarlett will foal a 100% palomino. (Scroll down for the color contest.) The Foal: “TAF...

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Mar 14, 2023