Brandon and a neighbor joined forces to have another small branding. I set my camera to “sepia” (because I can’t get a good sepia filter to add later) and just shot that way. I found some I like! Little Jaxon is in this one… Blocking the catch pen while the branders catch up. (See Jaxon…
Author: Carol
While the Sun Shines
The guys have been working long days… well, as best they can in between rain showers… putting up hay. You know the old adage, “Make hay while the sun shines”? Sun is essential for drying fresh cut hay. If you bale hay too wet, it can start to decompose, yes, like in a compost pile,…
Long Live the Queens
So much going on… I’ll finish this story first. I released my three new queens into their hives where they’ve been acclimating themselves and their new subjects. Two went smoothly, I opened their queen cages and they came out in a minute or so… One hive didn’t act very receptive, so I’m not sure how…
#TBT: Winter Cows
Since some of you are suffering through a heat wave… This goes back to 1930’s? winter time… snow on the ground… Herefords on the hill. (Thanks to J.A.G. – who posts old family photos so I can steal some of them and post them here!)
Wordless Wednesday – “Morning Light”
Still loving my morning light photos… Morning Light Puzzle
Hoping for Success
There’s plenty I don’t know about beekeeping and that was apparent today. I’ve purchased three new queens, as I didn’t see any larva or brood when I first checked the hives. My second check gave me the suspicion of a working layer… a worker bee that has begun laying as a queen. She will have…
Branding Portraits, Three
Fire tenders… yes, Quinlan’s face is filthy… We reenacted the cooks’ photo from this post… That’s all, folks! Thanks for putting up with my “fun”. (This post is late due to NO POWER last night… extreme weather in Wyoming, torrential rain, hail, tornadoes… crazy times in the Far Far West)
Branding Portraits
At branding, I’m running the bar part of our A bar A brand. That means I visit every calf to apply the brand. That doesn’t leave much time for photography! I have a bit of time since Vernon or Johnny go first to apply the two A’s… and if I let the vaccinators in first…
That Works
I’ve noticed bright, colorful flower pots for sale… a rainbow of colors. I’ve been tempted… might as well have some color in your flowerbeds before the flowers actually BLOOM. But you know me, I didn’t want to spend the $$$ for a colored plastic pot. I have all sorts of boring, black, white, and clay…
#TBT: Old Ways
Just to prove some ways just work the best for us… No date.
Wordless Wednesday – “Modern Cowboys”
For Vernon and Johnny, it was a little red book, pencil written on the tiny cramped lines… There were cattle numbers and dates born, doctored sick ones, and which were sent to town. There were bull numbers and hay numbers, some phone numbers, and “notes to self”… No surprise that my son uses his iPhone…