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…
Secret
I’m just about to finish a secret project… it’s been taking a fair amount of time. However, it’s for a friend, so until it’s completed, packaged, shipped, and arrives… I can’t fully share. It’s so hard to keep it a secret, just because I love sharing the step by step photos, but I think you’re…
Moving on the Mountain
The distinctive clang of the horse trailer gate signaled another day of cowboying in the Big Horns. Four horses were unloaded. However, one of them wasn’t Panama. Instead I had volunteered for babysitting duty. As you know, it’s rough country from my other posts about this same gather. I have a knee that’s acting up,…
#TBT : Oh, Daddy, v.2.0
This entry was first published September 9, 2008. FINALLY! the rain and cold has left us and seemingly the first nice day we’ve had since Labor Day Monday was yesterday. We’ve received almost 2″ of moisture since then, so we shouldn’t complain, but I do miss sunshine! Itching to get out and about, the dogs…