I really think the Q & A yesterday went quite well… Please give me leave to touch on a few other comments… Sara… the plight of the family farm/ranch being passed down to the next generation is insane. I’m not much for sharing politics on this blog, but Congress better address this *fast* as next…
Questions and Answers
Wow… I am SO HAPPY some of you sent in questions! I had this *great fear* that no one would ask anything and I’d be twiddling my thumbs or having to cruise eBay for entertainment tonight! So, first off, thanks to you who gave me some inspiration… Let’s go! (The bar)…
Wordless Wednesday – “Going, Going, Gone”
Here’s my Wordless Wednesday entry for today… The ice on the Nowood River disappears… February 25, 2010… March 2, 2010 Please send any questions you have for me to the comments section… I’ll answer them tomorrow!
Great Reward
Last night we had our largest calf we’ve had in the heifers… a whopping 100 pounder! That’s like having an 11 pound baby for us. For your first baby. Big. Ugh. Ouch. But… that’s why we check them… to be there when they need help. So, I go over to the calving shed… see the…
The Bar Part Two
Forgive my slimy hands… we just returned from calving a *big* bull calf… so I’m a tad late in posting. I’ll write about it soon… and for the record… I do NOT have slime on my hands still. I washed it off. Twice. Honest. Slimy keyboard = not appealing. So… Back to THE BAR. We…
The Bar
Another afternoon of painting up at the Mills place… priming and painting two coats on everything is VERY time consuming… plus I try to caulk anything that a boxelder bug can crawl through… and each window rattles like a chime when tapped, so I caulk around them as well… I have various boxes of my…
Spring Calves
Victoria, Matt, Jazz, and little Sadie Lady visited for a couple of days… Daniel came home… Warm weather snuck in the back door… Forty six calves have appeared out of our sixty three heifers… Enjoy!
Darkness, Rah!
“I am a lineman for the county… and I drive the main roads… searching in the sun for another overload.” I couldn’t help it… the song just sprang into my mind after seeing this. HUH? What did you say? What’s *that* got to do with *this*? Well… I know where Vernon is headed. I know…
Part of the Circle
Each day lengthens slowly… the sun’s warmth is strengthened. Winter is eaten away by spring. Though snow may fall… it also melts. Though one life passes… another is born. The glorious blue skies fade each night to twinkling blackness which greys and slips again into an azure morning. The moon fades its way from bloated…
Wordless Wednesday – “Both Branches”
Trying to get back into the swing of things… Remember Wordless Wednesday? Yup, going back there… though I’m never TOTALLY wordless… I believe in titles for my photos! “If what I say resonates with you, it is merely because we are both branches on the same tree.” — W.B. Yeats
Elsa, Dear
Tonight is Elsa’s last few hours to be, uhm… girlish? Female? Fecund? Yeah. That works. Her journey has been fertile. She is coming up on six years of age. She’s had five litters. Two when she was owned by De Butcher in Oklahoma, and three litters for me. Thirty puppies. Yes, thirty wonderful, gorgeous, working…
Petite Partner
This is what I like to see. A healthy calf and a good momma! I lost a calf last night… I was minutes late to his birth and the sack was over his head… no chance for the little guy. I hate that! I also know that it is impossible to be there for each…