It seems like forever since everyone was healthy and the intensity of an overly cold and snowy calving season wasn’t hanging over our heads… time to get the grands together and go sledding! Well, they went sledding… Reagan toddled around up at the top of the hill… where the road has melted… That *is* chocolate…
Author: Carol
Sunshine and Roses
Ha. Did you really think I’d be writing about sunshine and roses during calving season? Nope. Thank goodness, the weather is improving and at least the snow is leaving from the south facing slopes. Of course, that leaves mud and pools of meltwater… but let’s whine about one thing at a time, shall we? At…
Learning Fast
I’m taking the fast way out, by posting a video onto my Red Dirt Facebook page. No, you don’t have to have a Facebook account to watch it. This little calf looks half deer… but she was feeling good.
Sunshine
Nothing is looking as good to us as slightly warmer temps and plenty of sunshine.
#TBT: Proud to be Green
Let’s Throwback Thursday to 1973… This is me in my Cadette Girl Scout uniform… and since the Girl Scout birthday was just on March 12, hey… why not? I probably could scrape up photos of me in all my uniforms, from Brownies to Seniors… and then throw in some camp counselor and troop leader and…
Wordless Wednesday – “Peekaboo”
Peakaboo OK, yes, I spelled it wrong. What can I say?
Checkup
Once calves are on the ground, you can’t just ignore the babies. Unfortunately, calves can easily pick up a bug, and some are nastynasty. Brandon does a walk through as the calves are taking their late morning nap. He looks for calves that are dropping their ears down, feeling bleh. They may or may not…
One More
We’re down to calving the last few heifers. Thank goodness. At least it will give the guys a break in the middle of the night.
Leading Me Home
So when I took this picture last week… I did it because, here I was, in my baby Jeep Cherokee, cruising over snow covered dirt roads, listening not to some great songs… but Ken Follett’s Winter of the World. It’s a BIG book and I needed serious listening time! I had retrieved Eden from Shoshoni…
Think PAWSitive
I don’t want to jinx myself. I don’t want, in any way, to put this out there, and have some random, rotten piece of luck, mess this up. Twice with Dally. Twice with Eden. Here’s hoping Eden’s third time is a charm. Meet Tank. Deep Creek’s Shark Tank, to be precise. Eden was supposed to…
Little Shed on the Prairie
Vernon and I built this shed long ago, thinking maybe we could sell them, much like you see storage sheds sold everywhere these days. Well, we found out how long it took to weld the frame and tap the pipe… and we never built another one! For years though, calves have enjoyed their “calf only”…
#TBT : Info Needed
OK, local folks and relatives, I need a little help on this photo. I know this is the old highway where today the bridge is impassable over Crooked Creek. But what I know as the “school house” sits further south and it’s a log structure. What/whose house was this? Where did it move to, or…