The wedding was absolutely amazing… the only “bad” part was the shower/changing setting beforehand, but that’s an entire story by itself! The cakes turned out well, and all our fears about them sliding around and/or melting on the trip up through the mountain’s switchbacks were overblown. We had cans of mosquito fogger on hand, various…
Author: Carol
May I Present…
Sorry about last night… The cakes weren’t done until 1 am. <whew> Then I went to bed. I woke up at 4:15 am when Vernon woke up… and although I laid there another hour, sleep wouldn’t return and I decided to get an early start on this special day. Tonight it’s still early, but I…
Crunch Time
I have made two trips to Worland… yesterday and today… that’s enough for a while. Yesterday was a much needed trip for groceries and a trip to the vet for Victoria’s little Jazz. He’s been in pain, shaking his head, and as we had guessed, he had multiple cheat grass heads in his ears. Poor…
Wordless Wednesday – “The Big ‘Un”
“The Big ‘Un… aka… Supper Tonight!” 17.25 inches, Brown Trout, in case you were wondering…
Battlescars
After my wreck yesterday afternoon, and then all the bawling I heard last night, I anticipated a big mess this morning. It must have taken them just til this morning to find each other… because as we rode out, no calves or cows were in sight. They had reunited and then took themselves to the…
High Hopes
I was very excited today… The boys and their girlfriends were to ride the Mills badlands pasture, fixing fence, and re-doing my electric fence watergap again… stupid cows. I, on the other hand, was given the job of gathering the Ritchie pasture on my own. Alone. Me and my dogs. Whoopie! Well, I was just to…
A Tiny Smile
They sat there. Each to themselves, but together. She couldn’t tell if her older brother was reflecting or questioning in his mind. There was no nervous movement. He had been here before. He glanced at their mother with concern in his eyes, but he was hard to read right now. It was disconcerting. He was…
Time to Be A Cowboy
I shifted my weight to my left foot and stood on tiptoe. Well, as much of “tiptoe” as you can get in a stirrup. The dun below me adjusted for my shifted position but continued to rip green grass. Though I squinted in the morning sun, I still couldn’t see anything. I sat back down…
This Is Getting Exciting!
In between the cowboying and the haying and the renovating/welding/perfataping/painting/lawnmowing visits to the Mills Place… We are working on a wedding. We have eight days. Eight. Yup. Crunch time has arrived. Today we returned to the St. Christopher’s Chapel in the Big Horns to lay out decorations, see how they look, and prepare them ahead…
Robins
We moved cattle to our leased Partnership pasture today. We paired them out of our Mesa pasture after gathering them. Since we weren’t taking all of them, we had to make sure we only had pairs! It took a while… we usually pair them only at the end, but we are usually taking everything in…
Wordless Wednesday – “My Little Gal”
My little gal… Rimrock Rimfire “Dally”
Same Country
We did trail our heifers up to the Mesa Pasture today. The heifers have been north of here on a place we lease. They have been grazing around the hay fields in the sloughs and tree patches. Between the heat (today was 90*) and the mosquitoes and flies, I’m sure they’re happy to be off…