OK, Nance, a bio page, just for you. Smartass!

My name is Jules, but you can probably figure out what that derives from, and which I usually go by anyway. I’m 35 at the moment, divorced, with two kids, and options on two grown kids.

John: he’s ten, kind of a skinny squirt, and smarter than he really needs to be.

Seamus: he’s six, and my Irish throw back kid.

I have them every other week. On the opposite weeks, Cowboy (my wonderful boyfriend) has custody of me. I say I live in two places because for all practical purposes, I do. I get mail at both houses anyway. I just don’t like the idea of moving the kids in with a boyfriend, and besides, then their commute gets doubled. We’re happy with our arrangement.

Cowboy’s got two boys too: Chris, who’s 20 and lives with us, and Chad, who’s 21 and doesn’t. They may not be mine, technically, but they’re family anyway. Well, at least the one is; I don’t know Chad all that well since he never comes around and is always fighting with Cowboy.

We do a lot of horse stuff as a family, although my kids aren’t really into it. Chris and Cowboy are both roping on the State rodeo circuit, and do a lot of jackpot team roping the rest of the time. I don’t rope yet, although I’m starting to get the bug. I do a lot of support; rodeo-mom type stuff. Yeah, it’s like a soccer mom, except there are cattle to feed and horses to warm up and cool down. They don’t really need me to do it, but it keeps me entertained and moves things along faster with more hands.

Besides the horses (of which there are many, but not always the same ones every day), we’ve got three dogs; Bailey, the red heeler that belongs to Chris, and my two border collies, Angus (at the top of the page) and Jessie. Jessie’s pretty useless, but the other two are good dogs. Oh, and the goat, Elvis. He’s slightly less useless than Jessie, because at least he keeps the grass down in the backyard. And the shrubs.

I’ve got a full time job doing a sort of constructiony-environmentally inspectory type thing. Also, I have a teeny, tiny small business of my very own doing sundry water related things. No, I’m not a plumber. I don’t have the ass for it!

There! You happy?