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Framed!
My donation to the Harvest Dinner Raffle and Auction is done. Our library fundraiser is this Saturday. While the dinner funds are split between the library and ambulance, the raffle and auction goes to the Friends of the Ten Sleep Library. I was hoping to do a jewelry piece, but I might have to use…
All Eyes
All eyes were on Brandon coming down the hill.
Serious Mud
The cows left behind at weaning the other day are now in the Mesa Pasture. It was a frosty ride at the beginning. It’s a difficult walk on a good day… add the snow, and Panama and I just eased along… me perpetually hanging on against Panama’s expected stumbles. The cows had gathered themselves into…
Assortment
Eden wouldn’t look at the camera… Calling for momma… View from the ground… Cow dog.
Weaning
We weaned our last bunch before this storm. The basic idea is simply to separate mommas cows from calves. People have creative ways to do it, but we’re pretty simple and old school around here. Sorting here is done on foot. Riding horses and sorting cattle works for some people, but if you don’t do…
Wordless Wednesday: “Last Day of Fall”
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Not So Calm Before the Storm
The cows have been gathered (in the snow), and brought down to the Mesa pasture. Our other, smaller bunch is midway between the top and the Mesa. Today we weaned their calves off of them, and tomorrow we had planned to preg test them. There’s a large area of Wyoming covered by a winter storm…
Replacements
Over a few days, they flocked overhead, sailing on tipped wing in circles above my house. It was perfect for a Halloween movie. Vultures. Cemetery. Eerie music. Well, I only had the turkey vultures and a little roadkilled buck by the highway! They filled this tree. They roosted in their usual cottonwood. Flapping wings and…
Easy Saturday
A little flag football… go, Quinlan! A little studio time… Some sorting and nail removal from the woodpile. Easy Saturday.