Do not covet thy neighbour's life.

That's one of the commandments, right?

Well, almost.

The Pioneer Woman isn't my neighbour but I wish she was. And sometimes I wish I had her life. Even though I know that's not a good thing. First of all I really don't like to be close to horses. And my knees aren't strong enough for ranching. But it seems to me she rides around in a car or pickup truck quite a bit taking pictures of the Marlborough Man and her punks(that's what she calls her kids). I could do that. Here's a post about the punks' horses (click to link),

Before I start sounding all jealous and bitter....let me say I think she's awesome. And she just makes her life look so dadgum good. And she gets to use words like dadgum because she lives on a ranch. I don't even know what dadgum means and I've used it three times already. See I really wouldn't make a good Pioneer Woman. Here's a few words about The Pioneer Woman herself:

I hope you enjoy my website, ThePioneerWoman.com. Here, I write about my decade-long transition from spoiled city girl to domestic country wife. I post photos of cows, horses, and my four weird children, and frequently include shots of cowboys wearing chaps.

Now even though her blog is copyrighted, I think she'll appreciate me sending more people over. As if she doesn't already have enough when you see hundreds of comments...hundreds! Really. I'm not jealous. OK so go over there if you want for a few minutes and look at the latest pictures of Marlborough Man. I'll wait here for you, no problem.....................

........................................gee, you took a long time. Are you coveting yet? It's hard not to like pictures like this:

and this:

Look at her baby boy on the big horse! Oh my! There's more of these right here including a picture of the baby calf she's feeding since it was rejected by it's mom. Awwww....

So I know I've blogged about this before (only once) but I just wanted to share my endless fascination with ranch life. There's lots of good reading and recipes, photography tips, homeschooling, home renovations, horse riding, giveaways, contests and good clean fun. Except when they are roping calves. And then everyone gets kinda dirty. She apparently does a lot of laundry. Very entertaining. And she can sing like Ethel Merman too. Dadgum, this girl's good.

My coveting is just thinly veiled admiration. With a little innocent blog envy.