This was first published July 17, 2011. Someone said to me the other day, “Isn’t it ironic the overabundance of water this spring has cost us the shortage of water this summer?” Translation:Our irrigation of our fields is now JUST STARTING. Vernon and the boys have worked and worked and hired LARGE excavators to repair…
Wordless Wednesday: ”Refreshing”
Never fear, I’m still here! After a scheduled power outage yesterday, my router was unhappy… no wifi for me! The new one was dropped off and I installed it after work today, so here I is! For a jigsaw puzzle of Daniel watering his horse and dogs… go here.
Still Calving Season Video
Finally! After months of being lazy, I got around to making another video! This one covers way back in March, the 21st through the 30th. I hope to crank out some more videos soon, just to catch up!
Some Days
Some days… a little attitude can be helpful.
Garden Walk
The sweet ladies from The First Church of the Nazarene continue to do the Jerri Burton Memorial Garden Walk in my mom’s honor. It’s very small, usually two or three gardens, and it’s not really advertised, usually attended only by members of the church. Well, July 9th was my mother’s birthday, and the garden walk…
Responsibility and Freedom
Seems like we’ve been doing a great deal of cow work lately… This time we shipped a bunch to our mountain pasture and then had to pair them up. We had Quinlan and Lacee and Lorelei along today, and I couldn’t help but spend most of my time watching them. I always seemed to be…
Wordless Thursday and More!
Sorry, lost track of days… For a jigsaw photo of this ”Cowboy Life” photo, go HERE… If you’d like to read some exciting news happening in Ten Sleep, read on! **** Grace Gertsch, an extremely talented artist and student in Ten Sleep, won the “Doodle for Google” for Wyoming. Google is asking the public to…
Different
Ever since I moved to Ten Sleep almost 41 years ago now (!), the Fourth of July has been A Big Deal. There’s the parade, the rodeo, the street dance… rarely have I missed it… a few times camping with the family, or fishing or ? I’ve gone, hauled kids, got babysitters… and enjoyed it…
Not Bad
Small town parade… Lacee was Washakie County Fair Junior Princess and I videoed her and only caught a quick pic after she’d ridden by… Johnny attended… The one good thing about an election year is the amount of candy thrown during the parade… Little kids on fancy cars… Little kids throwing candy… Not a bad…
Our ”Ussie”
Two days of riding and moving and bleeding and gathering and shipping and trailing… and today we ALL rode, even little Reagan. We trailed our yearling heifers a few miles downhill… and she rode like a champ. When we were finished, she hitched a ride back with her grandpa in the side by side as…
Down Pat
Sunrise found us horseback, gathering heifers to bring them home. They crossed the creek on the second attempt, and soon we were up the hill, through the gate, and on the highway, walking the three miles home. Three cowkids were along to help. Having them mounted on horses instead of ornery ponies has made a…