As anyone that has livestock can attest… whether it’s cattle, horses, pigs, sheep, or goats… the words you DON’T want to hear are, “The __________ are out.” Now, you can fill in that blank with the various livestock you own, or you can fill it with some creative descriptive words. A few creative descriptive words…
Re-Red: September 6 – September 12, 2020
This week is a sentimental look at the end of summer. Freezing temperatures and snow were predicted, so I thought it was the last look at my garden and flowers. While much of Wyoming had snow up to 14″ deep, we avoided the storm. We put up the last of the hay, or so we…
Preg Test 2020
Thursday was our older cows’ preg test day. We finally wised up to separating the heifers and cows out into two days instead of one long, dusty, painful, tiring, loud, day. Everyone went up first thing but me and Lacee and Reagan. Megan had sent her kids to school, but Tess kept hers out for…
Holy… Cow
So much to tell and I fell asleep on the couch instead of coming in here early enough to tell the story. That was silly. I shared a tidbit on Facebook and Instagram… but I think I will have to wait another day here… maybe tomorrow I won’t be quite so tired and sore! (photo…
#TBT: Studio Beginnings, v.2.0
Sometimes you forget how far you’ve actually come! My studio looks so much better now! This was first posted September 20, 2009. Here’s the south facing wall of my studio/aka the old chickenhouse… The windows are covered in chicken wire…with traces of plastic sheeting left wafting in the breeze…The tiny picket door needs a latch…
Wordless Wednesday: “Lone Tree”
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Heifers
Heifers. They’re young cows in their first pregnancy (hopefully). These are the same heifers we did the pregnancy blood test on earlier this year. This time we are having our vet palpate the calf fetus to see 1. If they are still pregnant 2. How old the fetus is. (which he can tell by the…
Lucky Girls
We preg tested our heifers today. We gathered, trailed, corralled, and tested them. You know… yada yada. OK, maybe not yada yada, since I will write about it tomorrow. I have to share the exciting stuff first! While we awaited the arrival of our vet, we ate lunch and the guys promptly crawled halfway under…
Re-Red: August 30 – September 5, 2020
It was a pretty quiet week overall. I didn’t work much, and have Tess and Megan to thank for sharing some of their cowboying photos. I noticed a fat beaver grooming creekside… processed my meat birds… had the memorable moment with Daniel… and enjoyed some quiet sunsets. Victoria came to visit, the sor-dan was finally…
Water Project
Growing up, Victoria reminisced, there was hardly a summer we didn’t work on a water project. I imagine she’s pretty accurate. Water means a great deal in this high desert country. If you’re not developing a new source, there are rusty metal tanks to replace, plastic pipeline to dig up and repair, electric fence to…
Case Lots!
I’m fairly pleased with myself. Today I managed to go shopping at my local grocery store… to their CASE LOTS SALE! Now, I live four hours away from a Costco and Sam’s Club… so this is a Big Deal for me. This is how I’ve shopped for YEARS. Until this spring. *For those of you…
#TBT: Wild Life, v.2.0
This was first posted September 14, 2009. When my friends from New Zealand were here not long ago…it made me re-realize the amount of wildlife we take for granted. I mean, I *know* it…but sometimes you just need people to oooohhh and aaaahhhhh over the little mule deer doe in the road to remind you! You can…