Aha! Finally with the early morning shots from riding the other day… The sun is barely touching the hilltops. Sunrise makes for good dusty silhouettes. My favorite of the morning? Miss Lacee in the sunrise dust.
Author: Carol
Eye Roll
After spending an hour and a half on cleaning up my iPad, transferring and deleting hundreds of photos, I came out to finish downloading the last photos from my camera. I then realized it was 10 pm and my camera was out in my car. <insert eye roll> Well, I’m too lazy to walk out…
Sweet Clover
Why, yes, the sweet clover is tall and abundant this rainy spring year…
Ending
Playing cowboy, once again. We moved the little bunch we branded the other day to the Slope Pasture. Unfortunately, my iPad is full of photos, and won’t download anymore until I clean up some space, so you’ll have to take the “beginning at daylight” on faith since it only downloaded photos beginning at the end…
Throwback Thursday: Pay Day, v.2.0
This was first posted June 29, 2014. Well, we loaded our steers on semis this morning and sent them on their way! Taking it slow and steady… no need to rush them, this is what we’ve been working for since they were born… the guys bring them to the corral. Here we will run them…
Wordless Wednesday: The Road Home
For a jigsaw puzzle of this sunset, go HERE.
Great Smiles
Even though we started early, it seemed like the temperature grew hot fast… of course, as I stand by the branding barrel most of the time… I may have a warped perspective! With only 100 calves to brand, it shouldn’t take too long. These are our youngest calves, those we deemed too young to be…
Pear Blossom
I have stayed up too late and we’re branding our last calves tomorrow, bright and early and, hopefully, in the semi-coolness… so I’m quitting early on you, if 11:30 pm is considered “early”. As usual, I did find a photo for you… This prickly pear cactus is in peak bloom and showing off!
Our Reminisces
I wish I’d been recording while these three reminisced their own stories the other day during our lunch break. It went kind of like this… I’ve added some input as well.
Quite Nicely
While the James Greet Reminiscing series comes to an end, cowboying in the present continues. On day two of the Badlands Gather, I was in charge of babysitting Reagan at home and bringing the chuckwagon when requested. Throughout the morning, I received updates from Megan (when she had service) of where they were and how…
Reminiscing XXX
This story is from James Greet, written in 1991 about his life as a cowboy in the 1940’s. I could always tell what variety of wood was being burned by the odor of the smoke. In the towns, there was the odor of coal or coke being used. Coke was coal with the oil extracted from…
Throwback Thursday: Learning Adventure, v.2.0
This was first posted June 23, 2014. Before I left for the Garden Walk, I knew I needed to check on my bees. Thursday was a cool morning… perfect! I was going to check my Golden Hive, as last time, Mesopotamia had the check up. Slow and steady, I pried each bar from the other,…