I can’t help myself… whenever it is branding time, I have to switch my camera over to sepia mode. J. and J. share a story as Victoria swings a loop. I could do it as an effect on my Iphoto program… but for me, I like the real thing. I enjoy opening these up and…
Branded
Finally, it is here and gone again. Friends have arrived to help and enjoy the “fun” of branding day. Old cedar fenceposts reappear sawed to length and split for the fires. Boy, if you could only smell it… go stick your head in your grandmother’s keepsake trunk, and that’s the smell of these cedar sticks…
Preparation
Preparations for branding tomorrow have hit their full stride. The shop is cleaned and ready for weary, hungry workers. The firewood is chopped ready for the branding fire. The pop is chilled and water jugs filled for thirsty cowboys. All vaccinations, paint sticks, sorting sticks, brands, needles, syringes, LA200, sulfa pills, lost eartag replacements, camera…
Oh, So Close to a Perfect Picture!
I was this close… [ ] note the size… *this* close to taking the perfect picture yesterday. Well, maybe not technically or artistically for some people… I’m no Ansel Adams! But when it comes to *MY* category of “working cow dog photos”, this was was almost there! Taking photos of working dogs is HARD!…
Wordless Wednesday – “Heaven’s Above!”
Heaven’s Above!
All Day Long
If I thought the garden would get planted, the lawn mowed, the house cleaned, the dishes done, the laundry folded, the food cooked, this blog written… I would do this ALL DAY LONG. Follow these precious pups around and photograph them. I mean… a *bad* photographer with a *rotten* *cheap* camera could take good photos…
Rush Rush
Hi, folks! Remi, here. That Lady-with-the-food asked me to stand in and tell you she had to go to town first thing this morning… Don’t know what she was doing in “town”, I don’t even know what “town” means! She was grumbling about “cooking”… but I know I like her cooking, so I don’t see…
Cody Trip 2
Today was gorgeous and I spent most of it outside, so this is a late post, sorry! To continue the story from yesterday… The preview show began at 8 am… that’s why we had to leave home so early. We arrived in good time. The preview is simply the seller’s showing off what their horse…
Cody Trip
Yes, it snowed again this morning. Yes, we left at 5 am for the Cody Wild West Days Top Notch Horse Sale. Yes, we looked at so many horses I was getting confused. Yes, we discarded some of our pre-sale favorites and chose new ones. Yes, I got sunburned. Yes, there were LOTS of people…
Wet Pups
I rolled out of bed this morning and stumbled into the living room. I did a double take… There was SNOW on the ground. Good Grief! It wasn’t much, but there nonetheless. By the time I made it outside, most of the snow was melted. The puppies looked like this: Cold and shivering, they mobbed…
Gardening Dogs
Do you know the old joke about the guy who wanted to be a turkey farmer??? He returned twice to the hatchery where he’d purchased his turkeys… each time saying all his turkeys had died. The third time the hatchery owner asked him specifically what he was doing with them that he had such a…
Puppy Video at 6 Weeks
This has taken WAY too much time… and I don’t like it… I thought I could remove the original sound and cover it with music… but somehow I couldn’t figure out how… so if you are an Imovie expert… please contact me and tell me how to do this. I KNOW it can be done,…