Entry #6 – Six dump truck loads of cow manure – A first house warming gift.
Here is our garden, growing in the manure. As summer came to an end our other new neighbors, Craig and Joan Krosh dropped by to announce that our friend Al Gibron would be helping [...]
Entry #5 – The barn before the house
Preparing the poles for the barn Tri and the barn almost completed in the dead of winter As soon as the Water, gas and electrical lines were buried Nancy and I staked out the [...]
Entry #4 – The important work nobody will ever see
Laying water pipes and power lines Every step of building Timber Butte Ranch has been a step of faith. It’s been like crossing a creek in a thick fog stepping out [...]
Entry #3 – Scars heal
The day our friend and neighbor Harvey Church showed up with his D8 CAT was a hard day for us. It was the day we would cut a road through the virgin soil of [...]
Entry #2 Getting started – Putting one foot in front of the other.
Putting up the sign at Timber Butte Ranch. Every step of building Timber Butte Ranch has been a step of faith. It’s been like crossing a creek in a thick fog [...]
Entry #1 – The gift of vision
Tri and Nancy Robinson In the fall of 2006 Nancy and I stood on 80 acres of bare land that we envisioned would one day become “Timber Butte Ranch”. Our dream was [...]





