Daniel, Brandon, Victoria, and Matt ride out early in the morning…
#TBT : Wooly Chaps
There’s just something about those wooly chaps of Fred Greet’s… there are many old photos of visitors and relatives, trying on the wooly chaps and playing at “being a cowboy”. Here, Fred has roped a visitor in the chaps and cowboy hat. She also is pictured on horseback at a distance and on the corral…
Wordless Wednesday – “Heron Reflection”
Blue Heron Reflection Puzzle
Late
Long day. We made it home by 6:30, though we did take a long lunch break at 3 pm. That was particularly nice, since, well, first of all… lunch! and Cold Water. I had definitely overheated. But then, afternoon clouds came in and cooled down everyone, steers and people alike. That made the trail in…
Quick
Going to post quickly… It’s already 10 pm and I have to wake up at 3:30 am. We’re saddling at 4:30 and will supposedly be ready by 5 am to trailer out to the badlands pasture and gather our yearling steers. I’m praying for a much better ride than I had a couple of weeks…
In Sepia
Brandon and a neighbor joined forces to have another small branding. I set my camera to “sepia” (because I can’t get a good sepia filter to add later) and just shot that way. I found some I like! Little Jaxon is in this one… Blocking the catch pen while the branders catch up. (See Jaxon…
While the Sun Shines
The guys have been working long days… well, as best they can in between rain showers… putting up hay. You know the old adage, “Make hay while the sun shines”? Sun is essential for drying fresh cut hay. If you bale hay too wet, it can start to decompose, yes, like in a compost pile,…
Long Live the Queens
So much going on… I’ll finish this story first. I released my three new queens into their hives where they’ve been acclimating themselves and their new subjects. Two went smoothly, I opened their queen cages and they came out in a minute or so… One hive didn’t act very receptive, so I’m not sure how…
#TBT: Winter Cows
Since some of you are suffering through a heat wave… This goes back to 1930’s? winter time… snow on the ground… Herefords on the hill. (Thanks to J.A.G. – who posts old family photos so I can steal some of them and post them here!)
Wordless Wednesday – “Morning Light”
Still loving my morning light photos… Morning Light Puzzle
Hoping for Success
There’s plenty I don’t know about beekeeping and that was apparent today. I’ve purchased three new queens, as I didn’t see any larva or brood when I first checked the hives. My second check gave me the suspicion of a working layer… a worker bee that has begun laying as a queen. She will have…
Branding Portraits, Three
Fire tenders… yes, Quinlan’s face is filthy… We reenacted the cooks’ photo from this post… That’s all, folks! Thanks for putting up with my “fun”. (This post is late due to NO POWER last night… extreme weather in Wyoming, torrential rain, hail, tornadoes… crazy times in the Far Far West)