Hey y’all, I’m Mikal— wife, mom, chief corgi servant, and the one who keeps the fires burning and the crew fed around here at Corgi Cattle Co.
This ranch has been in my husband’s family for four generations, and I married into a legacy that is still built on faith, sweat and loyalty. His granddad started it, his dad poured his life into it, and now our son is already learning to read cattle and steward the land. One day this place will be his, and that thought makes my heart feel too big for my chest.
We’ve got two kids who think bedtime is negotiable and two corgis who are 100% positive they’re in charge (and they’re not wrong). Those short-legged dictators run the house, the barnyard, and most of my camera roll. If there’s a calf to “help” move, a feed bucket to supervise, or a lap to claim, they’re on it. You’ll never convince them they’re not 90-pound cow dogs in 25-pound bodies.
Out here we raise Black Angus the way ranchers always have: grass, good water, decent fences, and a whole lot of hoping the rain finds us. Spring means baby calves everywhere, summer means long days and haying, fall means shipping calves and praying the market doesn’t break our hearts, and winter means sourdough, soup, and watching corgis try to figure out snow.
When I’m not working next to my husband, I’m usually in the kitchen with flour on my forehead and a corgi underfoot. I cook like generations before me—cast iron, real butter, beef we raised ourselves, and recipes that get added to as my mood feels. If it can feed a hungry crew after a day of branding or warm up little hands on a freezing morning, it’s going on the table.
This blog is my little corner of the internet to share the chaos and the beauty of it all: the recipes that keep cowboys and kids happy, the corgi antics that keep me laughing, the ranch life that’s hard and messy and the only life I’d ever choose.
I wouldn’t trade a single sunrise over this place, this is home.
So grab a cup of coffee or a cocktail, kick your boots off, and stay a while. The corgis already claimed the good chair, but there’s plenty of room for you.
Mikal, Mom wife, corgi manager, and keeper of the recipes Corgi Cattle Co.
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