A little cow work today… Daniel, on the left, is giving a mineral supplement… so the girls are getting the right balance of nutrients… Brandon is worming them, because cows eat grass where things have pooped and ingest worms which grow and then are pooped out for other things to graze and get worms… Yeah,…
Author: Carol
Every Morning
Every morning this time of year, the guys are all doing a version of this. Whether they’re driving or pitching, or running an automatic bale feeder… they are out there first thing, feeding calves, steers, heifers, cows, and bulls! It doesn’t matter what the temperature is. It doesn’t matter if they don’t *want* to roll…
From Stuff to Dog Bed
There may be a few people who wonder why I keep stuff… Vernon included… I mean look at these outdoor cushions! Rescued barely in time from Eden’s puppy teeth! Yes, I did throw the others away! These have been sitting in a sack, along with that worn out blanket. Today, I joined them together. Not…
Tell Your Friends
Sorry, I missed last night. The internet has been painfully slow and spotty. I even had a hard time texting and that’s the simplest thing to do… I just got fed up fighting it and went to bed! I expected to be on horseback this morning. The guys gathered the badlands pasture yesterday (while I…
Truth be Told
Three days of babysitting Quinlan and Lorelei during the day… which included… and some of this…Led me to sit here and relax when everyone else went to Riverton today to see these heifers sell. I was very happy to read and clean and watch and create and dismantle Christmas ALL BY MYSELF. Truth be told,…
Questions and Answers – January 2016 Edition
Joanne : My question. Is it possibly to give an overview of the life of your calves. From birth do you keep them all or are some sold as calves rather than adult cows. How long do you keep the adults. We are a cow/calf and yearling operation. That means we calve in late February/March/April. …
Nowood Creek Puzzle
Here’s another puzzle… just to make up for Lucas’ fiasco! This is one of my photos of Nowood Creek that is in my Red Dirt calendar. It had to be cropped to fit… and it lost a lot of its charm! You, however, get to enjoy it in its entirety! Nowood Creek For those of…
Inappropriate
As I do every night, I read your comments… and a few of you expressed concern that yesterday’s puzzle was inaccessible. How weird. It’s a closeup of Lucas, hardly anything wrong… so I tried to make another. Same result. I suppose entitling the first “Handsome Man” put a flag on it, then when I tried…
Honestly Puzzle
The guys were busy today bangs vaccinating our heifers. I was at work at the library. I honestly feel SO GUILTY on these days if I’m not home to help! After years and years of doing the work, it just doesn’t seem right that I’m not there with them. If you’re inclined to learn about…
Rimrock Love
I looked for something the other day… it wasn’t there… Just a gorgeous blue sky and our signature “gun sight” cliff. I love this view, by the way… (any questions on why I call myself “Rimrock English Shepherds”?) But on the way home… There they were. Three of them. With a fourth gliding the thermals. …
Wordless Wednesday – “#Iamarancher”
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