For a jigsaw puzzle of this final push through the gate, go HERE.
Time to Pony Up Again
Initially, I had said I’d help trail the cows out, but that I may use the side by side. After that last long ride down the Mesa, my knee bothered me for quite a while. I’ve rolled my eyes plenty of times when the quiet is broken by loud motors… but better to have wheeled…
Real
They don’t even look real…
Photo Permission
Those of you who follow me on Facebook will have seen this already, but I know many of you aren’t on the Book of Face… so here ‘tis. I was contacted by Shannon Rollins and she asked permission to use a few of my Spring Creek Raid photographs in a video she and her husband,…
The Sort
So between cowboys and four wheeler riders, the cows and calves were penned. Time to separate them. Cows out the gate, calves into another pen. That meant two guys sorting them… with others running backup for when calves scooted by on accident. Three cowboys gathered up a dozen or so and urged them towards the…
Today’s Strategy
Sunrise at 7:45 or so. We’d left the house sooner than that. We had sold our steer calves in July and it was time to load them on trucks. It’s never so simple. They were grazing with their mommas in the fields, so gathering said fields was the first order of business. Vernon, me, Daniel,…
#TBT: Minute Movie:Trailing By, v.2.0
This was first published November 1, 2012. This Minute Movie is twice as long as normal… but I just couldn’t resist the peacefulness that saturates this video! We are letting the cows trail by… Vernon on horseback in the middle of the gate, getting a good count as they walk past. Daniel leaves my side,…
Wordless Wednesday: Worthy
This morning’s sunrise was jigsaw puzzle worthy! Try it HERE.
Miserable
After the big long day, the next day, I headed to work. I only work two days a week at the library, but often it seems, I miss out on ranch work. Megan took this one photo for me on Wednesday. Leaving the heifers behind at my place, they trailed the rest of the herd…
Long Day
The fog had hung low and so we waited for sunshine. An hour later than anticipated, we began. Daniel and I on the lower end, Vernon, Brandon, Megan, and Quinlan on the upper side. The cows were not very cooperative and we couldn’t blame them. Fall had been glorious. Moisture was abundant. Grass was plentiful….
Rocks
Definitely sandstone. Note the harder layer not eroding as fast as the rest… Lower down just a hundred yards from where Vernon began building his new dam, this narrow split in the rock created its own mini ecosystem different than what exists atop the ten foot sidewalls. Here grew chokecherry and Oregon grape, thistles and…