Another successful Harvest Dinner/Raffle/Auction in the books!
#TBT: Ah, the Romantic Life…, v.2.0
This post was first published October 20, 2008. I’ve heard it many times. Heck, I used to believe it myself. How AWESOME your life must be… you live on a *RANCH*! Well, it is true MOST of the time… It is the small percentage of times when you are doing things like today, that most…
Wordless Wednesday – “Rocky Mountains”
As usual, my photos look better full screen… or as a jigsaw puzzle! Go here and play, just for fun!
Framed!
My donation to the Harvest Dinner Raffle and Auction is done. Our library fundraiser is this Saturday. While the dinner funds are split between the library and ambulance, the raffle and auction goes to the Friends of the Ten Sleep Library. I was hoping to do a jewelry piece, but I might have to use…
All Eyes
All eyes were on Brandon coming down the hill.
Serious Mud
The cows left behind at weaning the other day are now in the Mesa Pasture. It was a frosty ride at the beginning. It’s a difficult walk on a good day… add the snow, and Panama and I just eased along… me perpetually hanging on against Panama’s expected stumbles. The cows had gathered themselves into…
Assortment
Eden wouldn’t look at the camera… Calling for momma… View from the ground… Cow dog.
Weaning
We weaned our last bunch before this storm. The basic idea is simply to separate mommas cows from calves. People have creative ways to do it, but we’re pretty simple and old school around here. Sorting here is done on foot. Riding horses and sorting cattle works for some people, but if you don’t do…
Wordless Wednesday: “Last Day of Fall”
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Not So Calm Before the Storm
The cows have been gathered (in the snow), and brought down to the Mesa pasture. Our other, smaller bunch is midway between the top and the Mesa. Today we weaned their calves off of them, and tomorrow we had planned to preg test them. There’s a large area of Wyoming covered by a winter storm…