Today was a day of extremes… First thing in the morning I was on horseback riding to the top of our Mesa pasture… The eastern sky was socked in… A depressing cloudbank of snow and wind… The western sky held the promise of sunshine and warmth… The mountains across the Basin were glaringly white in…
Category: Dogs
It is Thursday… Puppy Day!
My website is slowly changing… but it is still easier to post here… I shared their first photos here and I guess that will continue… for now… The pups are one week old today and that means… new photos! Puppy #1 has become Rimrock Sadie Lady. This dark sable is a petite female. (Names will…
Special Sweetness
My website needs a major overhaul… I contemplated using Squarespace… but they couldn’t transfer my blog and site over… so… I’ll stay with GoDaddy… but I need a full day <at least> to get it in… rip it apart… and put it back together! So… until I do that… PUPPY UPDATES CAN BE FOUND HERE!…
Bravery
Bravery comes in many forms. Bravery comes when the opponent is your own body… Bravery comes when the cost, whether win or lose, is the lifestyle you’ve chosen… Bravery comes when you make the right choice for someone you love despite your heart breaking at the choice… Bravery comes with difficulty and tears… Could I,…
The Secret is Out x 9
Surprise! Yes… I’ve kept a secret the past month or so… But now it is time to share the news… Elsa and Lucas are proud parents of nine new puppies! Yeah, I know, Elsa just HAD puppies in the spring… this was NOT planned by me, I admit. I admit one door is not always…
Wild Wild West
Meet the remaining dogs from this weekend’s stockdog clinic… Quick… Tucker… Heidi… Ice… Tru… T… For the women attending this clinic… First… thanks for bringing such a great trainer to Wyoming… Second… thanks for welcoming me into your midst… I believe we all had a great time… We saw and learned new things… The setting…
Stockdog Clinic
I’m BAAAAAAA-AAAAAAAACK! Didja miss me? Although I had a wonderful time, it’s nice to be home from the stockdog clinic… Dally, **especially**, is glad to be back in her comfort zone! The weather decided to be more than pleasant and we were at 60* for the most part… Even Saturday night was practically balmy… Especially…
Teaser
Here we were today… The guys had gathered our small bunch. The fifty seven cows are some of ours… some we lease. The plan was to wean these calves like we did with our big bunch a few weeks ago. *MY* plan had been to prepare for the weekend… but I ended up helping a…
ReRide
After the long day of riding last week… the weather turned on us… even colder and nastier than before. So… we flew to town to get building supplies for our various projects one day… Vernon took his “new” snowmobile up the mountain to check for leftover cows the next… He didn’t find anything… Then we…
Honest Dog
Unfortunately… the other day in between gathering the cattle and returning to wean the calves the next day… We lost a cow. Lost as in *dead*. Four legs pointing to the sky. Cows don’t tend to tip over as easily as sheep, but they do have one major method of unlikely death… They can easily……
Wordless Wednesday – “Dally’s Quiet Reflection”
Dally is still long enough so that I could capture her reflection…
Gatherin’ to Wean OOPE
We gathered our mountain pasture today… Tomorrow we wean our calves from their mommas… The boys delayed their return to Laramie for a couple of hours so they could help… Besides the *definite* chill in the air and the *wind*… It was a great day up there! I had on my winter Carhartt… gloves… chinks……