Born In A Barn. My annual trip to the “local” craft/repurpose/recycle/vintage/antique market complete with live music and food and drink was today! Ninety vendors. That’s very good for Wyoming! This place has grown and grown! The best part? Is that my girls… my sister, daughter, daughters-in-law, and granddaughter all got to go together and share…
#TBT: Gotta Go, v.2.0
This was first published September 15, 2008. Sometimes, just sometimes, when Vernon says he has to run to the other place for some odd quick job, I just gotta go. I gotta stop looking out my living room window. I gotta breathe some clean air that doesn’t smell of fried potatoes and laundry soap. I…
Wordless Wednesday – “Break Time”
For the jigsaw puzzle of this photo, go here.
Short Clip
I posted a 15 second clip on Facebook about gathering the mountain pasture. I usually just do 15 seconds so I can post them on Instagram easily. But this time, I’m using Facebook so I can share with you! (See? A great reason to follow me on Instagram and Facebook… you see more of the…
Tabled
What do you think? I’m pretty happy with it, perfectly square or not. One of the reasons I built it, was to have someplace to showcase the very old wagon wheel sections that Johnny gave me out of his basement. There are two uneven sections and one spoke. They’re OLD. I took eleven different photos…
The Real Work
We vaccinate ahead of weaning to give the medicine time to kick in. Weaning is a stressful time, and we don’t want the calves getting sick… so we do our best to take care of them. That means gathering the pasture like I talked about yesterday. We then separate the cows and calves, turning the…
Mountain Work
We gathered the mountain pasture. My cows didn’t seem anxious to move. They liked their grass where they were, just fine, thank you very much. My standard operating procedure is this trail, just below the ridge, but not along the canyon bottom. However, standard didn’t apply this time as the cows were all up high….
One of Those
It’s just one of those days when my eyes are slamming shut at 8:30. I know you understand. More tomorrow.
#TBT: Wildfire
Wildfire… Nah. Unfortunately, not the Michael Martin Murphey song. As I drove to work this morning, the smoke from the Fishhawk Fire outside of Cody was rolling in. Cody is 2.5 hours away from me… so no worries here… It reminded me of our biggest, closest wildfire we had waaaaaay back when my kids were…
Salt
Just *this close* to being done with the table… but not quite! So on to other things… I never showed you the finished salt shed… in its permanent location on cement. It looks pretty sweet! It doesn’t take long to load 300 pounds of salt and mineral to take around to the cows. Just stay…
Done. Or Not.
I’ve been building a table. I’ve shown you pics in “Project” and “Unfazed”. I’ve continued… trying to figure out five steps ahead of myself as well as upside down and backward. I’m not exaggerating. I had to figure out how to get my legs attached and put on the apron and level the top, all…
Mystery Smoke
The dogs and I piled in with Vernon to head to the mountain this afternoon. I was just to an exciting point with my table, but decided to abandon the 90 degree heat for something cooler! We had to get clear to the top before we hit some cooler air. There’s stories to tell of…