I stopped by the calving shed to see the progress… the new sheds needed to be drug into place. Now… what did we have planned? It’s been so long since we drew the plans… After some discussion, Vernon used the Bobcat to push and pull them the few feet to where we wanted them. Some…
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#TBT: Baby Calf Walk Video, v.2.0
For this Throwback Thursday, it’s Baby Calf Walk. As newborn calves are born in the calving shed, they are soon moved outside to make room for the next calving mother. That means we will walk them on their staggering hooves, through snow, when they have no idea how to simply walk, much less follow their…
Wordless Wednesday: “Moon Rock”
For a jigsaw puzzle of this photo, go HERE.
Pipeline
With the unusual nice weather we’ve been having, we continue to do a few projects. The guys had been working on it, as usual, before I showed up. You may recognize our pivot field, disced up, not quite ready for spring planting. That’s fine, because we’re laying a pipeline across it now. It will be…
Wyoming Ranch Life Video – Bulls and Tea
The video for this week on the ranch and the blog, Red Dirt In My Soul, covers January 11 – January 22, 2021. We move some bulls down the highway and feed them, cows come in from the Badlands Pasture and get worked through the chute by my little replacement, a failed attempt at cooking…
Imagination
Use your imagination… what does that rock on top remind you of? A bear? What about now? It’s the same rock, just zoomed in and slightly different angle…
Details
A bit more work on the new sheds… Once we’d had a good look at our new little additions to our calving shed, we noticed some difficulties. The gates were shorter than we expected. We quickly decided that a riled heifer could attempt an escape over the low gate. Now, granted, most of our heifers…
Warmth
Vernon has been working on our calving shed. With the expansion of our new added sheds (which aren’t yet in their new positions), the calving shed area needed new lighting. We’re also trying something else new, infrared heat. Our calving shed has two indoor pens, and the others are in an open faced three sided…
#TBT: Opening Water Holes Video
For this week’s Throwback Thursday, I’m reposting a video much like the one I did just a few weeks ago, but this one is from 2012. If you’re looking at the country, or the activity, it’s still the same. We’re all older, though, all the dogs have died, and we’ve sold the blue pickup. In…
Wordless Wednesday: “Hoodoo”
For a jigsaw puzzle of this hoodoo, go HERE.
Renaissance Again
Yesterday I shared about the Renaissance Cafe in Greybull, Wyoming. I talked of the atmosphere, the tea, and the scrumptious food. That is not the entire experience, though! While you might be taken in by the huge portraits on the wall, the assorted tea cups and saucers, and the leopard print and Marie Antoinette on…
Day Out at the Renaissance
Tess’ birthday is this week. Last week, we had a chance to go out to eat as part of her celebration. I’ve wanted to go here for months, as I follow the Renaissance Cafe on Facebook. It is in Greybull, Wyoming, so it was going to be an outing! What an outing it was, too!…