I am a full-time crime scene investigator with a large metropolitan city. I live on a farm, but on a clear day, if you walk to the end of my road, you can just barely see the skyscrapers. Like a giant amoeba, the city is slowly expanding to swallow up everything in its path. Ours used to be a farming community, but even now, we see the shadow of the civilization creeping up on us. Where cattle once grazed, subdivisions spring up like mushrooms after a rain. It bothers me. I used to believe that my job was simply a way to pay the feed bill, but now I have learned that my worlds are two sides of a coin.
"We begin to live when we have conceived life as a tragedy."
W.B. Yeats
I've learned that you cannot truly appreciate Life until you've been up close and personal with Death. Like the country song says, "Life ain't pretty, but it's beautiful."
I began writing many years ago as a way to entertain myself and friends. I was quite amazed, however, when readers wrote to me to report that I had brought a smile or a laugh to an otherwise horrid day. Many said they keep a file folder of my stories to read for when they were blue. It was quite humbling. I had stumbled upon a way to bring a little sunshine into the world.
Every crime scene I walk into has a story, and it's not always the story I expect. My life is not unique. Every morning, the moment your feet touch the ground, your story begins. Often you decide whether the tale is a comedy or a tragedy, because most of the time, the story is simply in the perception. A comedy perceived, is a comedy achieved.
In the end, I hope that something I have shared makes you laugh, makes you think, or makes you thankful for the gifts the Good Lord has given you.
"Life was a funny thing that occurred on the way to the grave."
Quentin Crisp
The Cast of Characters:
Other Half
Read: Dad's Job
The Divas Go Shopping
Goldilocks
Me 
Read:
Leopard Print Underwear Rules!
Rage On The Range
Border Collie (Lily)
View: Barbed Wire Border Collies Page
Briar (herself)
View: The Briar Patch Page
Trace
Read: The Crocodile Hunter LIVES!
Bloodhound (Alice)
Passed away Feb 13, 2011.
Read:
When It's Time
Blue Heeler (Ranger)
Read:
The Godfather
The Black Wolf (Ice)
Read:
Ice's Story
Cowboy (himself)
Read: The Cowdog
Old Police Dog (Zena)
Zena was placed with an elderly lady who wanted
a dog to lay on the couch and watch television with her.
Read: Old Dogs Old Ladies
New Police Dog (Oli)
Read: A Study In Contrasts
Dillon - hunting dog pup
The Enforcer (Kona)
. . . passed away June 25, 2010
He was Ice's littermate and my Cadaver Dog.
Read:The Paper Boy
Stallion (Sultan)
Passed away April 2, 2010/Colic due to cancer
Read: Blessings in the Rain
The Goat King (Montoya)
Read: King Of The Goats
The Porch Ponies!
Napolean Ruffy 
Read: The Grace of God & The Red-Headed Demon
The Cowponies
Scout
Colonel Musket
The cowponies live with the cattle and most of their ranch work is being outsourced to Border Collies.
Read: High Noon
And last, but certainly not least . . . The Livestock!
Dorper Sheep 
Nubian Goats 
And . . .
Sante Gertrudis, Angus, Black-Baldy cows crossed with an Angus Bull
