Wednesday, August 27 –
The puppies are really growing. They still don’t have their eyes open, but that doesn’t stop them from scooting around the room when mom’s not looking. They are five days old.
Category Archives: Ranch News
Friday, August 22, 2014 –
During the night, Coconut had four puppies. Two males and two females. She’s full blood Shih Tzu and the father is a Yorkie. So these will be “Shorkies”!
Aspen found what has got to be the tiniest horny toad ever.
Some friends of ours had an older horse that they were no longer using, so they’re letting us enjoy him for a while. His name is Radar. Carolina has kind of claimed him, I guess.
Friday, August 8, 2014 –
Carolina and Stockton were having such a good time in the pool, I just had to grab my camera. The approaching storm gives a dramatic background to these brightly colored photos.
Thursday, August 7, 2014 –
We sometimes run the cows through to preg check them or worm them, but this time the guys were strictly working on the calves. They were being ear-tagged, branded, de-horned if necessary and in some cases castrated. They wanted to do it last weekend when the weather was cooler, but couldn’t coordinate it all with the helicopter pilot. Yes, you read that right. The cows were gathered this time with a helicopter. It’s done quite frequently in our area because of the rough terrain. We wanted to try and gather some wild yearlings that didn’t get caught last year. Our L-shaped place isn’t very easy to gather horseback because the pens are at one end of the L and the river is at the other. These yearlings were hanging out by the river in the wildest part of the ranch. Anyway, the helicopter paid off and the yearlings were caught.
The weather was so hot today, that the guys were getting dangerously over-heated. However, at just the right moment, a cloud built up and sent a cooling breeze and a little shower over the proceedings. This was just enough of a relief so that they could finish up the last bunch of calves. Our friend, Brent Brown, was also helping us today.
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 –
From morning to night, the clouds were amazing today. Hope you enjoy these pictures I snapped throughout the day of clouds and a few other things as well.
Sunrise
The guys leaving out this morning in the “Beast”.
Wednesday, August 6, 2014 –
My cousin, Kristin Dendy, and her two girls and Granny came down for the day. We had a lot of fun catching up on each others lives and watching the kids play and swim. They spent a lot of time battling the wasps that wanted to share their water.
Sunday, August 3, 2014 –
Nathan and I drove over across the river to a place we and the boys have leased. I hadn’t ever been on this ranch before, so I knew I would be wanting my camera. It’s a very pretty place and the cattle seem very well satisfied.
If you haven’t been out and about in the country around the rolling plains area lately, you may not have seen how the ranch land is now criss-crossed with high line wires. This has all happened just in the last 18 months. It’s such a shame that so much beautiful country has been so marred. I wish they would have at least kept to the main highways. Instead they follow whatever is the most direct line, even if it cuts right through tracts of land.
Wednesday, July 30, 2014
A series of pictures over two hours this evening. Mostly of the sky, but also some of Nathan and Stockton plowing.
Sunday, July 27, 2014 –
The Phipps kids came over Sunday afternoon to help us slaughter Aspen’s meat chickens. (I’ll link to her post about that when she publishes it) While the boys were doing the dirty work, Stockton and Josiah had the pool to themselves…well almost…
You have to be ready to defend your territory from wasps!
After the chickens were all dispatched, then the big kids got in on the fun.
Here’s a little video I took:
