Happy 307 Day. March 7th is 307 Day here in Wyoming. We proudly post “307” everywhere, reflecting our statewide area code. Today, with spring unfurling a warm blanket, rapidly melting our snow, I took a hike. All around was liquid, ice into water, frozen dirt into mud. It gave me a chance to play with…
#TBT: Heifer Story, v.2.0
This post was first published March 6, 2009. Sooner or later, you do a job long enough, something unusual will occur that makes the entire process glow with a new light… So it is with checking heifers… I mentioned before how I check the heifers sometime between 10 and 11 pm. There…
Wordless Wednesday – “Spring Sunset”
To keep your mind active, try this as a jigsaw puzzle. Follow this link and try it. It’ll take you 10-20 minutes! How fast are you?
Scenes from a Tractor – Video
Yesterday you saw “Scenes from the Calving Shed”, now we’ve moved out to feed some heifers, baby calves, and our bulls. If you recall, the guys have built two big bale feeders over the past few years, Vernon uses one, Daniel the other. Now that we’ve moved heifers and their new calves to my place,…
Scenes from the Calving Shed Video
Our calving shed is *THE* place to be right now. I took various little shots of activities there and compiled them into this video. Cleaning the “slime”… weighing the calves… learning to eat and run and drink from a bottle for those that need an extra boost. Plus, there’s tagging and feeding and a board…
Hold My Camera…
Four more inches of snow, then sunshine and blue-ish skies by afternoon… I hope you guys don’t mind videos, because I’ve taken quite a few lately. I need to get them worked up into movies… and in the meantime… someone stole my camera. That’s not true. I *gave* my camera for him to hold while…
Baby Calf Walk
We’re doing something a bit different this year. Usually, when we’ve had a heifer calve down at the calving shed… she and her baby get put out on the other side of the shed and left there. So one side is “TO CALVE” and the other is “HAS CALVED”. This year, the majority of heifers…
Baby Calf Video
I think this is self explanatory… but ask away if it isn’t! I decided not to put music to it, as it’s a very quiet process!
#TBT: Inspiration – Stoves and Eggs, v.2.0
This post was first published February 26, 2009 Although I haven’t shared the other pysanky eggs I’ve been working on…I just have to share this one because I shared its inspiration the other day. Some of you even wrote and said you loved my inspiration too. For those of you out of the loop, here’s the Coolest Wood…
Wordless Wednesday : “Grizz”
For a puzzle of this photo, go HERE.
Calves!
I went down to get a couple of photos of our first calves… and we happened to have another calving. I stuck around, sitting in the sunshine, trying to stay warm, and reading a book. Yes, I’ve been around calving enough to come prepared for waiting. The heifer may present with a bubble from the…