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Pioneer woman – Ree Smith Drummond

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UPDATE: MARCH 22, 2010

It has been two years since I made three or four entries in this blog about The Pioneer Woman. At that time the average person  was just finding out she was Ree Drummond, wife of Ladd, member of a rich ranching family in Oklahoma. I think she had won “Best Kept Secret” blog about that time. Because I write this blog for the heck of it, I have only recently scrolled far enough down on the site management page to see it contains a graph with visit statistics.

I saw on Friday a tremendous jump and discovered it had to be related to the news that PW/Reese Witherspoon are in the news regarding a possible movie version of the Ladd and Ree Drummond Romance Story.

Obviously, all that is here is pretty much zippo. And obviously The Pioneer Woman has gone way beyond the best secret blog thingie. I’m sorry if you came here looking to be enlightened about her. She has a giant following, having started by writing about ranch life and sharing pictures of an Oklahoma Shangri-La. And she diversified with recipes, home-schooling, photography lessons and big time giveaways . . . into the Big Time of success. A dissenting opinion about her wonderfulness by a blogger who has actually spent time at her ranch can be found at My Sister’s Farmhouse.

As for me, I liked seeing pictures of the ranch and learning a little about the cattle-working process,  and now I check in every now and then to see what’s up.

This is odd; I thought I wrote a post about the Pioneer Woman and the stats show people found this site by searching for her name, but I can’t find that post I thought I wrote.

I remember I said her husband’s name was Ladd and her father-in-law was Charles R. and that once the Drummond family had owned over 100,000 acres.

Hmmm . . . I wonder what happened.

UPDATE: You know, I may have accidentally deleted that post. Drat. Oh, I think Ladd’s nickname is Woody.

Since then I have written: What is it about the Pioneer Woman?

Oh, and then another it about the pioneer woman

Pioneer Woman timing awry

UPDATE #2:  And then I wrote no more because I had satisfied my curiosity and gotten used to seeing the things in ranching life. I still go there to see more and look at the lodge pictures and now and then her other topics – I don’t cook though and that is why The Leaning Cow is located at the Peanut Butter Cafe & Roadhouse.

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I’ve have seen Joe Dorko

Aha, I was just sitting here with the TV on Fort Wayne’s CBS at a low volume and when I shifted my laptop, I caught a glimpse of the screen. (You have to realize that some of my mornings I look at the laptop while in a deep sofa slouch; well, you don’t have to, but it would be helpful to understand why I could not see the screen.)

By the way, the TV was on CBS in the first place because I looked this morning to see if East Noble was going to have a delay. They did not.

Getting back to that moment when I saw the screen, the name Dorko was being broadcast and there was his picture. Not a bad looking man at all. Trim and distinguished.

Just last week, I happened on the Dorko name and wrote a little about it. And now there he is on television. Oh, Good God, I looked again and the show is “Martha”. Now, that’s great; Martha Stewart drives me crazy. She goes to prison and comes back to a TV show and design collections with department stores and Kodak Film Gallery.

Well, Martha is neither here nor there and I guess I should climb on the wagon, take the pledge – no more Dorko remarks. It just lends itself so easily to that sort of thing . . . No excuse. Get a grip on yourself. Have some class, AmeliaJake.