What a title! Yup, Back in the day, Q&A sessions were a regular part of this blog… This was first posted March 20, 2012. Finally… Here’s Part One… too many questions, so I divided this in half.
Category: Throwback Thursday
#TBT: Un-onslaught, v.2.0
This was first published February 27, 2012. I keep waiting for it to “HIT”. The rush of baby calves. The flow of amniotic fluid… the grunts of labor… the slimywetcuterthansnot black babies that (hopefully) slip into this world… the steam that rises from their backs… the first shake of a head and blow of a…
#TBT: The Job Everyone Ha- Doesn’t Care For, v.2.0
This was first posted February 24, 2012. “The job everyone hates.” That’s the way Daniel described his afternoon chore of grinding grain. We feed our calves extra grain rations during the winter… it helps them grow big and strong! If we only fed them hay, like their mothers, they would put much of that energy…
#TBT: I Interrupt This Lesson… For Ranchlife, v.2.0
This was first posted February 17, 2012 Ooops. Yeah, the sewing machine never made it out of my basement. Due to the breakdown of some equipment… I was called into action today. We grained the peewee calves… And fed some cows. And chopped some ice. Why, yes, I *DO* live on a ranch… thanks for…
#TBT: As Time Goes By, v.2.0
This was first posted February 13, 2012. Boy. It’s difficult to blog without my camera anymore. *I* was ready for my dog walk/heifer checking/craftiness today… but I had a DEAD camera. Absolutely lifeless. No AED was gonna revive it. Sure, I had other cameras AT HOME… but that didn’t help out with today’s events. I…
#TBT: Community, v.2.0
This was first posted January 27, 2012. After a trip to town, Vernon and I stopped by Ten Sleep School for a couple of high school basketball games. Oh, the memories that brings back! My kids played basketball and football and track… Small towns love their sports! To be part of the community… I really think you…
#TBT: Whisper of Hay Dust, v.2.0
This was first posted January 22, 2012. Hay dust filters through the sunlight, drifting in lazy circles until it settles back on wooden edges. Ancient grain, a pile of manure (well-aged), mice scent, and dried out leather add to the ambience as I wonder at the memories held in these log walls. Memories that don’t…
#TBT: Clostridium Perfringens Type C, v.2.0
This was first posted on January 17, 2012. Kudos to you if you know what that is. Or not… depending on how you look at things. Because if you know this bovine illness, you know its consequences, and you know sometimes it’s not pretty. Let me back up and use some English. We vaccinated our…
#TBT: Wordless Wednesday: Friends, v.2.0
This was first posted January 4, 2012. I was talking about this the other day. No one lights up this pump jack anymore, and I miss it! For my not quite so Wordless Wednesday… a poem! **** On a dark Wyoming hill sits a pump jack all alone. Red lights shimmer upon it and give…
#TBT: Long Shot, v.2.0
This was first posted December 27, 2011. The guys have been going out regularly to our badlands pasture… every 5 days to open waterholes… and almost everyday to kick the cows off the fence. With the snow and lower temperatures, they yearn to drift in to the hayfields and beg for hay. It’s a big…
#TBT: Winter Wardrobe, v.2.0
This was first published December 19, 2011. …I continue my walk. I head for a woven wire gate… easier than climbing over the tight barbed wire! But there, on the other side, sits a snowshoe hare! He’s taking in the sun, and barely glances at me as I approach. The dogs are off in the…
#TBT: Replacement Heifer, v.2.0
This was first published December 6, 2011. The home made branding iron heats in the cedar fire. The snow melts backwards in ridges. The heifer clangs into the chute. The iron is pulled and a “0” appears on the heifer’s hip. Born in 201*0*, it is now forever imprinted on her hide. She holds inside…