Wild Horse Country, David Philipps Goodreads: The wild horse is so ingrained in the American imagination that even those who have never seen one know […]
Chronology
The 2024 HFFCF Fair
There is a whole additional level of commitment with sheep compared to last year’s rabbit project. Not just the amount of time one has with […]
The Fair Begins
Fair week is here with a bang: Max’s first year showing sheep and Lilia going for another round of horse showmanship and market rabbits. As […]
Tijuana Express
Tijuana Express to the Healdsburg Junior High end-of-year dance
The Prize
The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power, Daniel Yergin This book is a tome of 900+ pages of small print and took […]
Sugar Bowl Uphiller
I can only do so much spring skiing, so took the opportunity to join the climbers as part of this year’s Sugar Bowl Uphiller. The […]
Healdsburg Junior High Track Meet
A few pics of the athletes from this afternoon’s track meet at the high school…
Seattle Reign at Bay FC
Seeing an Earthquakes game has been on our to do list for many years, but the games are always pretty late in the evening and […]
Bootjack Loop
A magic hike in the redwoods into the top of Muir Woods on our way down to see a Bay FC NWSL game
First Shearing
All action at the ranch!
Miracle March Delivers Again
After skiing in sweaters and mountain biking gloves for a week over spring break the weather turned cold again this last weekend and March delivered […]
Third Weigh-In
The girls gaining wait very nicely at their third weigh-in. Angel was impressed with Max’s progress with the ladies, quite complimentary on his bracing, especially […]
Sugar Bowl Spring Break
We ordered the weather for the kids’ spring break up in the mountains: highs in the fifties (teens in celsius) on the slopes every day […]
Donner Peak and Eagle Rock
A few pics of a super fun spring tour with Paris up to Donner Peak and down to Eagle Rock…
Daylight Saving Ski
A couple of days up in the mountains to start daylight saving time
First Weigh-In
Lots of laughs for the photographer!
Tahoe School Week III
When the powers that be decided to force the planet into remote schooling back in 2020/2021, we figured if we were going to be remote […]
Welcome Snugglepuff and Shirley!
Today we welcomed Snugglepuff and Shirley – Max’s two 4H ewes for his sheep project this season – to the Valtenbergs household. These two are […]
Sugar Bowl Powder Adventures
A double batch of storms hit Northern California over the past week, delivering a whopping 60 inches (1.5 meters) of cold smoke to the Sierras […]
More Storms!
This next round of storms were borderline: much warmer than the blower pow delivered by last week’s onslaught, but we had a free weekend so […]