This was first published September 5, 2014. Long ago… well, in May of 2013, I started building my hugelkultur bed. It was a simple test and I didn’t get too carried away just because if it failed, I didn’t want too big of a mess to clean up! Well… my opinion now is… It’s a success!…
Wordless Wednesday: Water Break
For a jigsaw puzzle of this pause for a water break, go HERE.
Job Done
The plan for the day… gather a pasture, sort off cows, vaccinate the calves. When I arrived, after doing some other chores at home, I couldn’t find anyone nor see any cows. I drove back and forth… nope. Well, I knew eventually they’d have to come to the corral, so I waited. Megan and Tess…
Benefits
Vernon took me to see his latest water project. Originally, he was going to put it right where the spring flows out of the hill, but there were no rocks around. Experience has taught us that troughs placed with no rocks under or around, soon get beat out by cows and all the wildlife that…
Pray For
When we vaccinate the calves, we put moms and babies in the corral first, then separate the cows out through a gate. They can go graze while we’re vaccinating their babies. Brandon and I work the gate with our long flags, turning calves back and letting cows go through. I think we work well together….
Back
Back to the mountain.
Collected Stories
Some other family stories have been shared with me and I think you’ll enjoy them! LIFE OF O. E. HOBACK as told to Edna Greet (Vernon’s grandmother). Uncle Oscar was born February 11, 1874, near Rogersville, Arkansas. Bentonville was their county seat. The family had moved there soon after the close of the…
Throwback Thursday:
This was first published August 29, 2014. I’ve been working on a new video… hopefully with less uploading trauma than the last one! So for tonight’s quick pic… I thought I’d make you jealous. The view from my studio this evening… A fingernail moon ornamented the sky just barely out of view, I did catch…
Wordless Wednesday: Favorite Colors
For a jigsaw puzzle of some of my favorite colors draped around our fossil butte, go HERE.
Farm Collie
Bravo urging on a calf. I’m usually aware of dogs in photographs, especially English Shepherd types. I am reading a local history book as my “Wyoming” book for this month’s Pronghorn Reads Challenge. That’s a statewide monthly reading challenge promoted by Wyoming Humanities. It’s a good little book, full of bits and pieces that are…
Fires
196,000 acres. Over 300 square miles. That’s the Remington Fire that started in Wyoming and made a run into Montana over fourteen miles in one night. Then there’s the House Draw Fire. 174,000 acres. They shut down Interstate 25 for that one by Buffalo and Sheridan. The Flat Rock Fire and the Constitution Fire near…
Escape
With tons of cow work headed our way, I chose to escape to the mountains before it all starts… and with views like this, can you blame me?