This was first published May 8, 2012. This year we are way behind this entry as our grass is just beginning to turn green! With the weather finally kicked into summer gear, we are all running around… trying to finish up this and start that… repair this so that will work… figure out how to…
Wordless Wednesday: New Harvest
Two of my “new chicks” are finally laying… a sweet blue green egg… the hens are called Cream Legbars. For the jigsaw puzzle, go HERE.
Melancholy
There is melancholy in places like this. Where location was perfect for use in four pastures. Where timbers were cut and hauled. Where blisters were built on shovel handles and saws and hammers. Where someone looked upon this round corral with satisfaction in the knowledge it would serve its purpose, and do it well. Where…
Step Up
When there’s a job to do, what do you do? Do you see it? Do you do something about it? Or do you wait, thinking, surely, someone will step up, but I’m not the one to do it. Sometimes, it’s surprising who sees that a job is lacking. It’s surprising who has the initiative. Our…
Nice
The past couple of days have been warm and springlike and oozing of the scents and mood that makes everyone collapse from an acute case of Spring Fever. I’ve worked in my yard. I’ve prepared some planters for, well, plants! I’ve actually just sat down in the sun and breathed. Soaked in the Vitamin D…
March On!
Remember my chicken tractor? It has been in a state of disuse… since I now free range all my chickens out of a solid coop, I decided to sell the thing… and maybe make a bit of money. But first I asked Victoria if she wanted it. She did! This morning she drove over from…
Mercer’s Banditti
Another great guest speaker to wind up National Library Week! This time it was local historian Clay Gibbons talking about A. S. Mercer’s book, Banditti of the Plains. For those not familiar with western history, Banditti of the Plains was an exposé of the Johnson County War, the large cattlemen versus small that occurred in…
#TBT: We Made It, v.2.0
This was first published April 28, 2012. It was a memorable trip! Yeah. All that about good intentions… I really thought I’d blog last night. From a motel room via email. I had a plan! Then things got all switched around, and instead of staying and spending the night… my boss and I decided to…
Wordless Wednesday: Woodpile Peekaboo
For a jigsaw puzzle of this calf playing woodpile peekaboo, go HERE.
Pairing Out Video/Johnny’s Legacy
I think about him often. But here, riding is where I remember Johnny most. He was so quiet: in voice, in horsemanship, in stockmanship. Ride into that herd quiet, cut out the cow and calf pair, let your horse be quiet too, turn the pair, and follow them out so they think it’s all their…
Eeeek
Working on a movie… hoping to get it uploaded asap… check back soon!
Photographic
Today was a big day of branding another bunch of calves and trailing the pairs out to the badlands. But first… there’s always a first step… we had to trail them to the branding pen we’d set up, about two miles. Since it was Sunday, all the kids could go along. I chose the sxs…