Although, 90 acres in our country is a "ranchette", not a ranch. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
After hearing me rant about the proliferation of 5- acre "ranchette" subdivisions surrounding Magdalena, Mary Zeiss Stange sent me a wonderful essay she had published on the subject in USA Today!. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-05-01] Reference
And if that's so, the president also needs to stay in town instead of rushing off to clear that poor brush again on his "ranchette" set in Waco and negotiate in good faith to protect the American people. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-08-01] Reference
The hordes of coastal suburbanites who are buying up former ranchland in "ranchette" subdivisions LOVE this weather, even as wildlife, ranchers,and stock all suffer and the Forest Service who have deliberately or accidentally set every fire in the two nearest ranges in the last three years forbid the public use of their forests, even if we do not set fires. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-07-01] Reference
We got it for free from a friend who has a ranchette!. From Wordnik.com. [The WritingYA Weblog: Poetry Friday: Parasols? Or Parasails?!] Reference
I pointed up the hill to the east and said to Lauren, "That's Dead Eds ranchette.". From Wordnik.com. [Cold Case]
Dead Ed's ranchette turned out to be adjacent to Highway 9, not more than five miles north of I-70. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Conditions]
But such problems and protests are not likely to stop the encroachment -- ranchette life is just too good. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching The Nouvelle West] Reference
I scratched below the surface of my memories of my afternoon at the ranchette in Summit County with Sunny Hasan. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Conditions]
The problem has become so acute that a Colorado state senator has just moved to restrict ranchette development; Gov. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching The Nouvelle West] Reference
She lives on a ranchette just out of town (with her heeler), and found an unusual skull in the hills behind her place. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
And he was at this minute heading off to see if his rolls of wire fence had disappeared from our unit onto a ranchette. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
I found myself thinking that if I had a few extra million like Dead Ed, I might have been tempted to buy this little ranchette, too. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Conditions]
So, as I drive south nearing the plant, I see the blue and white double-wide trailer on the east side of the road, the second ranchette down. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Three of us representatives of different levels of government, supposedly here to answer questions from the expected crowd of ranchette owners. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
"It's carving us up and turningus into a checkerboard of 35acre lots," said Mike Maag, manager of ranchette-rich Douglas County, south of Denver. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching The Nouvelle West] Reference
Although I'd been to the ranchette once before with my friend, Boulder detective Sam Purdy, this was the first time I'd had the opportunity to point it out to Lauren. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Case]
Got visited by one of our local hermits, an ex-Marine hiding from the world on his little ranchette (drives with a 10mm on the seat beside him), but he and I get along well. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
We were popped the usual question: What if all that land ends up as ranchette parcels or little subdivisions?. From Wordnik.com. [Daytona Beach News-Journal Online] Reference
Molly B's relocation to a 20-acre ranchette known as the New Dawn MT Sanctuary has proven an adventure in its own right. From Wordnik.com. [StarTribune.com rss feed] Reference
Blowing out to the middle of some inaccessible ranchette doesn't actually eradicate world suffering, injustice, imbecility, and anti-Twistarianism?. From Wordnik.com. [I Blame The Patriarchy] Reference
Convert 3,902 acres of agricultural land, which allows one house per 20 acres, to agricultural ranchette land, which allows one house per five acres. From Wordnik.com. [TCPalm Stories] Reference
After her one-night stand, Penny went home to Texas, where she lives with Art and Martha Stern on a 10-acre ranchette in the town of Boyd, outside Dallas. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Music producer Billy Denizard and his wife, Olga Tanon, a multiple winner of Latin Grammys, bought side-by-side ranchette tracts three years ago to enjoy an unhurried pace of life. From Wordnik.com. [SplicedFeed] Reference
Without the State Conservation Board and the Colorado Association of Conservation Districts, there would be a missing link between private farm and ranch landowners, small ranchette owners and other suburban developments to assist in wise and proper management of natural resources. From Wordnik.com. [Vail Daily - Top Stories] Reference
I pointed up the hill to the east and said to Lauren, "That's Dead Ed's ranchette. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Case]
I pointed up the hill to the east and said to Lauren, “That’s Dead Ed’s ranchette.”. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Case]
Bushboy must need another R&R on the cattle-less, horse-less brush-filled ranchette … yeah, that’s it. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Hastert Shuts Down Congress For DeLay’s Trial] Reference
Although I’d been to the ranchette once before with my friend, Boulder detective Sam Purdy, this was the first time I’d had the opportunity to point it out to Lauren. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Case]
"New ranchette owners come in and say," How come you can't plow my road? 'and we tell them they're building five miles past the NO WINTER MAINTENANCE sign, "says Ben Beall, a county commissioner in northwest Colorado. From Wordnik.com. [Ranching The Nouvelle West] Reference
One of the ranchette owners. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Lucy called it a 'ranchette. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Conditions]
He wants to go home to the ranchette. From Wordnik.com. [Think Progress » Cheney: Miers is Just Like Scalia and Thomas] Reference
As we passed yet another ranchette. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Dead Ed’s ranchette turned out to be adjacent to Highway 9, not more than five miles north of I-70. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Conditions]
"Where's the ranchette?. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Conditions]
“Where’s the ranchette?. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Conditions]
Lucy called it a ‘ranchette.’”. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Conditions]
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