Pro Rodeos in August!

Pack up the motorhome and hit the rodeo trail to cheer on the best professional rodeo competitors in North America!   AUGUST   High Prairie, AB Aug 1-2   Strathmore, AB SMS Equipment Pro Tour Aug 4-7   Regina, SK SMS Equipment Pro Tour Aug 4-5   Grimshaw, AB Aug 5-6   La Crete, AB …

The Railroad Corral 

BY JOSEPH MILLS HANSON (1876-1960)  Oh, we’re up in the morning ere breaking of the day,  The chuck-wagon’s busy, the flapjacks in play;  The herd is astir o’er hillside and vale,  With the night riders rounding them into the trail.  Oh, come take up your cinches, come shake out your reins;  Come wake your old …

MULTI-AWARD-WINNING HORSEWOMAN 

Reading Niki Flundra’s long list of accomplishments (so far) makes you wonder what you’ve done with your life.  Seriously.  Let me just reel off some of her qualifications: a master horse trainer, a licensed pyrotechnics expert, a multi-award-winning act as a trick rider and a Liberty horse trainer who has performed multiple times at every …

Homegrown – Grow a Birdhouse!

By the fabulous Terri Mason   Until I signed the mortgage papers and bought my little Taj Mahovel here in Maple Creek, I had spent my life only interested in grass from a grazing perspective. But then came home ownership, and suddenly, everything changed.  Seed catalogues began arriving. I was on a first-name basis with …