I’ve had my shower, removed some trail dust, and I’m currently sipping on some of the *finest wine*. OK. Charles Shaw. From Trader Joe’s. <It was reported that my previous link had malware attached to it. So sorry. Please don’t let it download anything! Thanks, Penny!> I can relax now… so long as Rocky quits *barking*……
Tag: moving cattle
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Ah. Nothing like being in the saddle for 7 hours to help define your achy spots! If your elbow was tender before, now you know you weren’t imagining things! The morning I spent weeding my garden… and then I cooked a big lunch. I knew we were moving cows after lunch, and more often than…
Living the Dream
Another day of cow work… What are we? Ranchers? Oh… yeah… The cows we fought to put in the Ritchie pasture last night were gathered this morning. <Daniel and Vernon are both visible – if you squint – in this photo> Dally was chosen for the long-ish day of work. Elsa locked with her puppies……
Cow Work
Today, again, was filled with cow work… The cows we brought down yesterday were scattered far and wide this morning. They didn’t like where we put them… Not enough grass… Not where they wanted to be… So they left… Well, some left… These were up on the hill… trying to take the shortcut to the…
Kicked Across
All six of us rode horses today, Victoria meeting us on top, coming from her side of the mountain. We kicked our cows across the road to new pasture. Our cows have been in our leased pasture since our big trail drive weeks ago. Since we put 100 pairs in ANOTHER leased pasture the grass…
Another Day of Riding
We moved 100 pairs today from the Mesa to a new pasture leased from a neighbor… It was mainly me and Daniel and Brandon and S., our neighbor girl. Vernon and Johnny took the bulls back down to our bull pasture. Brandon discovered the pains (literally) of riding a colt… with a couple of nice…
Oh, So Close to a Perfect Picture!
I was this close… [ ] note the size… *this* close to taking the perfect picture yesterday. Well, maybe not technically or artistically for some people… I’m no Ansel Adams! But when it comes to *MY* category of “working cow dog photos”, this was was almost there! Taking photos of working dogs is HARD!…