“God’s Working Dog View”… aka… Dally at my Stirrup
What Tomorrow Brings
Today saw Daniel’s return to Laramie… back to classrooms and sidewalks and “town noises”… At least for a few weeks… then there’s Thanksgiving… and two weeks of classes after that until the semester ends. We sure enjoyed having him home… Vernon and I worked up at the Mills place this afternoon… and should I get…
Ritchie’s
Monday… and I got the day “off” to do laundry and dishes… and find my floor under the mud and dog hair… yecccch! The guys drained the water tanks on the Mesa, gathered up salt feeders, and captured 3 heifers we’d missed on our gather the other day… but they didn’t need my help. Usually…
Living the Dream
Another day of cow work… What are we? Ranchers? Oh… yeah… The cows we fought to put in the Ritchie pasture last night were gathered this morning. <Daniel and Vernon are both visible – if you squint – in this photo> Dally was chosen for the long-ish day of work. Elsa locked with her puppies……
Cow Work
Today, again, was filled with cow work… The cows we brought down yesterday were scattered far and wide this morning. They didn’t like where we put them… Not enough grass… Not where they wanted to be… So they left… Well, some left… These were up on the hill… trying to take the shortcut to the…
Extreme Lifestyle
Today was a day of extremes… First thing in the morning I was on horseback riding to the top of our Mesa pasture… The eastern sky was socked in… A depressing cloudbank of snow and wind… The western sky held the promise of sunshine and warmth… The mountains across the Basin were glaringly white in…
It is Thursday… Puppy Day!
My website is slowly changing… but it is still easier to post here… I shared their first photos here and I guess that will continue… for now… The pups are one week old today and that means… new photos! Puppy #1 has become Rimrock Sadie Lady. This dark sable is a petite female. (Names will…
Wordless Wednesday – “Lettin’ the Kids Do the Work”
“Lettin’ the kids do the work of bringing in the bulls”
Little Remnants
When the mountain buffalo roamed the Big Horns… so, too, did their predators… That day as I took photos about weaning and a reeking dog… I walked around looking at the ground for evidence of these predators… Here was evidence! A flake of chert… trash leftover from making an arrowhead or point… debitage! In fact……
Before Summer Gets Away…
Before summer gets away and the mountains are covered in their white blanket until spring… I need to finish some photos I took for you earlier in September… I’ve mentioned before the buffalo trails that exist in this country… If you don’t remember… Cow trails look like this… narrow… winding… Buffalo trails are wide enough……
Special Sweetness
My website needs a major overhaul… I contemplated using Squarespace… but they couldn’t transfer my blog and site over… so… I’ll stay with GoDaddy… but I need a full day <at least> to get it in… rip it apart… and put it back together! So… until I do that… PUPPY UPDATES CAN BE FOUND HERE!…
Good Girls
I know many of you are awaiting puppy pics… but yesterday and today were spent preparing for and preg testing the last of ours and a neighbor’s cows… We were hoping for a MUCH better weather day than last year! We knew Daniel was coming home this weekend… then Brandon said he was coming as…