I spent the day in my studio… listening to Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! and repeatedly raising an OSB sheet to my ceiling. Since the walls are neither straight nor square, I had to continually trim more and more from the edges, of course, lifting/cranking/sawing/cursing/hammering/shoving it back into place each time. It took six tries, but…
Category: Ranchlife
Today’s Mix
Company left after lunch, and it’s back to the quiet house. Dally is doing better. The vet was leaning towards musculoskeletal problems rather than heat stress… some old hide probably got a good shot in, unknown to me! Stupid cows. I posted a video from the other day on my Red Dirt Facebook page, and…
Brown, Black, White
Brown Horse in black and white… Full day… still have a kitchen to clean up… so I’m going to neglect you! Thanks for all the well wishes for Dally. She’s moving better and faster. She still is sore and has a little wobble to her hips, but much better! Thanks for your concern!
It’s HOT Out There
We rode out 2 miles in the cool of the morning, and Dally drank from a few puddles. The cows came well, and back at home, we crossed the creek. Another bit and we crossed the creek again. Up the hill and down the highway… slowly, letting the herd graze and eat their fill. We…
Fragments
The morning came to me in fragments. The tell tale dust rising above the tall sagebrush was a simple clue that cows were walking through it. Brown Horse stepped on crusted dried mud, or crispy and crunchy sagebrush, or a spray of fine dust sifted at every hoof print, depending on our location. Birdsong welcomed…
Taken
I jumped in with Vernon today… Some of our cows had got mixed in with the neighbor’s… plus they needed salt, mineral, and dust. I know I’ve talked about giving cattle their salt and mineral before… but I may not have mentioned the dust. Think flea powder for your dog… but this is fly powder…
First Horseride
Ah, man! 11:15 and I just finished my rodeo video! I enjoyed putting this together! Had to throw it together with Chris LeDoux’s “Horsepower” song… who else? I really like some of my photos… but you can’t get a good sense of them in this video. Maybe I should get *less creative* and just post…
Whoa, baaaaaaaby!
Whoa, baaaaaaaby, it was HOT today! 98*! After loading some pairs onto the semis, I hid in my house and rearranged and cleaned and organized… My basement and tiny air conditioner made the day tolerable! The cows we’ve been loading on semis are the ones we usually trail to our burned out pasture and then…