Last week we traveled over the Big Horn Mountains to deliver my daughter’s new Ford Escape to her in Buffalo, Wyoming. 90% of my trips over this mountain are enjoyable, 10% are the kind where your knuckles hurt after driving it! Ten Sleep Canyon is an impressive stretch of highway with switchbacks and a runaway…
Sparkles
I took Elsa to my vet today to get her OFA done… Finally, I accomplished that goal! I was late starting out because Elsa is standing as of this morning… and I hoped she and Lucas would uh… consummate their relationship. But I had an appointment to keep and couldn’t afford to give them the…
Dally Learns (Video)
Well, last night when Vimeo told me it would be 65 minutes before my video could be ready to watch… I gave up. So to learn about this video, go to yesterday’s blog… or just to watch it – go here. Corral Work from Carol Greet on Vimeo.
More Preparations
Along with pulling up the electric fence wire, our preparations for calving included cleaning the calving shed. The red shed is easily seen from my house through the boxelder trees. It is a five minute walk from here. Soon we’ll be putting our heifers, 60 of ’em, in here every night. We’ll sort off the…
Dally Learns (Hopefully!)
I made this video the last week… The boys were still here and two friends, L. and S., helped us out that day as well. Our work is done, so we kick these steer calves out of the corral and take them into the field between my house and Johnny’s house. I start off with…
Hopes
As of Tuesday, Elsa and her daughter Dally are both in heat. Thus begins the “dog shuffle” where the girls are either in the kennel or in my kitchen/mud room or supervised outside. Lucas is rotated to wherever they aren’t. I hope to breed Elsa as it has been since November 2007 when she delivered…
Sorting OOPE Fave
The idea of OOPEs is that the photographs are taken as my camera sits in the pocket of my Carhartt coat. Yesterday’s photos especially proved this point… this shot more than the others. There’s the cuff of my coat on the upper left… and the edge of my pocket on the bottom. In between is…
Sorting OOPE
I did it! I actually took photos while sorting cattle! Yes, I waited until most of it was done and yes, most of the pics are definitely OOPEs but considering I didn’t drop my camera and Tart and I didn’t lose any cows and Tart and I didn’t fall down on the *)(&*&^% ice – I…
January Gather OOPE
We began gathering our cows off the BLM today with our neighbors that share the allotment. I am sore from hunching up against the snow even though it was very light and a fairly nice day. I took my hot shower and I’m ready for bed, but, of course, have to post these OOPE photos…
Playing in the Snow
The boys returned to Laramie on Sunday to start their spring semester. We’re always so proud that they’ve grown up to be hard-working men. Then Daniel emails these pictures to me. What is that quote you like, Toria? “The greater the mind, the greater the need for play?” Or some such Spock-ism like that… Well,…
Lucas Posing
I had to take these… and about a dozen more… my guy looking handsome…
Bangs OOPE
The other day I managed to have an OOPE day. We were bangs vaccinating our young heifers… or brucellosis vaccinating. For those of you who don’t know, brucellosis is a contagious disease that causes abortion in cattle. Female cattle must be proven to have had the vaccination at the time of sale. To do this, a veterinarian…