Let’s Throwback Thursday to 1973… This is me in my Cadette Girl Scout uniform… and since the Girl Scout birthday was just on March 12, hey… why not? I probably could scrape up photos of me in all my uniforms, from Brownies to Seniors… and then throw in some camp counselor and troop leader and…
Wordless Wednesday – “Peekaboo”
Peakaboo OK, yes, I spelled it wrong. What can I say?
Checkup
Once calves are on the ground, you can’t just ignore the babies. Unfortunately, calves can easily pick up a bug, and some are nastynasty. Brandon does a walk through as the calves are taking their late morning nap. He looks for calves that are dropping their ears down, feeling bleh. They may or may not…
One More
We’re down to calving the last few heifers. Thank goodness. At least it will give the guys a break in the middle of the night.
Leading Me Home
So when I took this picture last week… I did it because, here I was, in my baby Jeep Cherokee, cruising over snow covered dirt roads, listening not to some great songs… but Ken Follett’s Winter of the World. It’s a BIG book and I needed serious listening time! I had retrieved Eden from Shoshoni…
Think PAWSitive
I don’t want to jinx myself. I don’t want, in any way, to put this out there, and have some random, rotten piece of luck, mess this up. Twice with Dally. Twice with Eden. Here’s hoping Eden’s third time is a charm. Meet Tank. Deep Creek’s Shark Tank, to be precise. Eden was supposed to…
Little Shed on the Prairie
Vernon and I built this shed long ago, thinking maybe we could sell them, much like you see storage sheds sold everywhere these days. Well, we found out how long it took to weld the frame and tap the pipe… and we never built another one! For years though, calves have enjoyed their “calf only”…
#TBT : Info Needed
OK, local folks and relatives, I need a little help on this photo. I know this is the old highway where today the bridge is impassable over Crooked Creek. But what I know as the “school house” sits further south and it’s a log structure. What/whose house was this? Where did it move to, or…
Wordless Wednesday – “Learning”
Learning
Chicken Ears
I’m taking a short break from talking about calving… to answer a question many of you had after my last “Ten Things You May Not Know About…” post. Of course, it was on chicks and eggs… and many of you became fascinated with chicken ears, of all things! Luckily, Victoria FINALLY made it over the…
Cold Ears
Yesterday’s post was about a different way to identify a calf until the weather is warm enough to put its ear tag in. We have a new way to keep those ears from freezing in the first place. Why bother about cold ears? Wet, newborn ears can easily get frozen, then fall off. When they’re…