Finding Some Interesting Ranch Brands

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So, I’ve been mulling over this new story idea (I’m always thinking of the next book while I’m writing the current one). It takes place on a fictional small hobby ranch converted into a retirement home. I’ve decided to call the retirement home Rocking Chair Ranch. Cute, right? My first step was to come up with a logo for the retirement home that resembles a brand. This is solely to cement the place in my head and give it the kind of personality I want. I played around and this is what I came up with. I like it.

Then, I did a Google search to see if there are any real retirement homes called Rocking Chair Ranch. No, but there are two large cattle ranches. There’s also a peach farm with the same name. I don’t think this is going to be problem, so I’m keeping my little fictional brand.

 Well, if you’ve been reading my blogs here for any length of time, you know already that this took me down a strange rabbit hole. Out of curiosity, and because I’m a romance writer, I decided to see if there were any brands with hearts. I mean, if I had a ranch, I’d want a heart in my name. I found a couple cute ones and some okay ones and one I…ew. You’ll have to form your own opinion.

The upside down Js make me think of cane, not Js. The flying heart is okay. Don’t really like the hanging heart.

I’d say the double heart is my favorite. The broken heart looks like it’s medical for some reason. I think they could have done better.

Okay. This one. Yes, it is what you think it is. I suppose they were trying to be funny. For me, the joke didn’t land. Maybe others will find it hysterical.

Truthfully, I could have spent an entire day looking at brands. There are websites where you can design your own brand which you can then take to your state’s appropriate agency and register. Did I visit that website? Um, maybe. What do you think of this one? What would your brand look like?

 

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Cathy McDavid has been penning Westerns for Harlequin since 2005. With over 55 titles in print and 1.6 million-plus books sold, Cathy is also a member of the prestigious Romance Writers of America’s Honor Roll. This “almost” Arizona native and mother of grown twins is married to her own real-life sweetheart. After leaving the corporate world seven years ago, she now spends her days penning stories about good looking cowboys riding the range, busting broncs, and sweeping gals off their feet — oops, no. Make that winning the hearts of feisty, independent women who give the cowboys a run for their money. It a tough job, but she’s willing to make the sacrifice.

24 thoughts on “Finding Some Interesting Ranch Brands”

  1. The CM with heart looks pretty. Love the double heart, too. I have double hearts made from horseshoes.

    Best wishes picking your logo.

  3. Oh, gosh, Cathy. Coming up with a brand would take me forever! I’m always second-guessing my ideas and or I’m too heavily influenced by something someone else has done, and then I worry about plagiarizing or copyright infringement somehow. LOL

    But like you, I love brands. They’re fascinating, and each one has a story behind it for the ranch-owner.

    You did a great job with your fictional brand. It’s perfect for your new story idea!!

    • I do like the Rocking Chair Ranch brand. And because it will only just be talked about in my book, I don’t think I’ll have any problem with brand infringement 🙂

  4. Our neighbor’s last name is Hardt, pronounced “heart”. Their brand is “Tree Heart” which looks like a pine tree on top of a heart. I have always thought that was special. Our brand is Lightning W which is sort of a Z shaped lightning bolt over a W, kind of hard to describe without drawing a picture.

  5. There’s a short road near my house called Rocking Chair Lane. Your Rocking Chair Ranch made me think about. I picture several front porches with rocking chairs and older people sitting. It’s kind of a private dirt road, I think the name is for 911 purposes.

  6. I like your Rocking Chair ranch one and I also love the Double Hearts one, so so nice! Now as for mine, I’ll have to think about that one. Have a great day and stay safe. I enjoyed your post.

  10. Our brand would be a bear paw footprint with a B for the pad or in the pad.
    When I was a children’s librarian, one year the summer reading program theme was the cowboy West. I had my son make a branding iron with the initials of the library. We cut square blocks of 2 x 4’s and heated up our portable forge. Each one of the children got to brand their own piece of wood.

  11. Good morning ing I was out of town yesteday and missed this. The W -?? Ranch gave me a chuckle. I do have a brand my family has and it’s registered in TX. TL brand where the T has a _ added to it. T_.

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