Didn’t post last night since I spent the afternoon and evening babysitting for Brandon and Megan. It was their anniversary, and they deserved a nice night out… I won’t blog any about what I spent most of the day working on myself… just let it be said that 60 year old plumbing is gross and…
Wordless Wednesday – “Favorite Blue”
One of my favorite wildflowers, Blue Flax.
Go Lay Down
“Go Lay Down” A phrase every working dog around here needs to learn… Lucas and Dally have it down pat… Eden needs some work! I remember Elsa having problems with it, as well, and I guess that gene is in little Eden. When you have gathered a pasture, or moved your herd, you can hold…
Bee Break
Another day of babysitting, letting Megan ride once again. I cooked the cowboys lunch, and I do believe they were happy it was “just” half a day of riding today! They’ve been going and going… of course, not that they didn’t work the last half of the day doing something else! After lunch, I caught…
Working Dog
I opted for babysitting Quinlan and Lorelei today so that Megan could ride. It helped me get my house cleaner… and lawn watered some… and two loads of laundry finished! But then, Tess and I took up lunch to the cowboys. I debated. If they weren’t quite to the Slope Pasture… they could probably use…
South, This Time
More sorting. More trailing… South, this time! More pairing through the gate. And, finally, happy cows…
North x Northwest
With branding over, it’s now time to split up the herd into smaller ones. The guys like to do this since it is so much easier to see which bulls are with which cows… They spend a great deal of time discussing “If we put this bull here with that bull, then we have such-n-such…
Branding 2016
The Gauntlet. The branding barrel and my “bar” branding irons. Waiting on the ropers. Vaccinators. Lunchtime. This isn’t out of focus… it’s through the heat of the branding barrels. Keeping the irons hot is a Very Important Job. Dragging one out. Daniel ducks under the rope, while A. proved repeatedly today, that wrestling calves requires…
Work Load
I didn’t ride today… Too much to do, so I babysat Toria’s kids and tried to get ready for branding! I don’t think I’ve sat down very much today. Once in the rocking chair to get Matthew to take a nap this morning… and I was wishing he didn’t fall asleep so fast this time! …
Oh, My Goodness
Riding for 10 hours today. It’s a good way to be sore ALL OVER. Tomorrow has the potential to be a short day or another LONG day… so I may pass. Riding for another 10 wouldn’t be so bad, it would be coming home and having to cook and prepare for branding that would do…
Fighting and Gathering
I’ve been fighting off a case of the stomach flu… and everyone else is working, gathering cows. Tomorrow I may ride along, and there will be photos… you know there will be photos…
Cloud Friends
After lunch, I thought I’d jump on the lawnmower and cut that patch of REALLY tall grass where the horsetrailer had been parked. Then I’d trim around the buildings. Five hours later, I was still mowing and trimming and I’m still not finished. I had found out the rest of the grass was tall as…