The seed was planted.
How and why did we decide on the name Every Day on the Ranch for our blog?
Last spring, I remember sitting on the edge of my bed one evening looking through pictures on my phone. We had been getting ready and setting up for cow camp. Cow camp set up involves many trips up the mountain to haul horses and gear to camp, set up branding traps in several locations and take propane tanks to each of the traps. We set up tipis and a wall tent. We hauled up all the camp supplies, food, and water and the set up preparation could go on and on. I had taken some pictures each day while we were setting up our camp. As I looked through the pictures that night, I thought, “Something is happening every day at the ranch. What we do as a family is not a common thing. I should share our life as a ranching family.”
The seed sprouted.
As I thought more about blogging and sharing on social media I realized I needed to tweak the name I thought I would use. I didn’t like how every day AT the ranch (everydayattheranch) looked when it was one word and it wasn’t clear. I decided every day ON the ranch (everydayontheranch) was better and was clear and it felt right. I searched to see if anyone had claimed the name Every Day on the Ranch. It didn’t show up on any of the searches, so I claimed it as ours on several social media platforms.
The fall of 2019 I started learning about blogging, again. Over ten years ago I had a private family blog. A lot has changed in the blogging world since that time. By January of 2020 I learned enough new information to get to a point where I liked what I had created with the blog, but I didn’t hit publish.
In January 2020, I started posting on our Instagram page. This gave me the chance to post pictures and share things about our life to see if I was ready to blog. A few months have gone by and I feel like we are ready to go beyond the Instagram posts and do more and share more. It was time to hit “publish” on the blog. Content is created every day because of the things we do in our normal, daily ranch life. I need to transfer it all into picture and word form to share on the blog. But, I have been busy because…something is happening every day on the ranch.
The seedling has become a plant and it is growing.
Thanks for joining us on the start of this journey.