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No rain yet, but I am hoping…
Bob and Sue (friends from Iowa) took off this morning pretty early. We had fun with them as usual. Bob helped get rid of lots of p dogs it sounds like and then caught a few fish yesterday, then we all went in to Spearfish and ate supper at the Bum Steer, good place to eat we always enjoy.
Sue helped me move the heifers a bit farther south. Wind was blowing so they acted like the silly little girls they are. Cindy and Sue decided Bob (the dog) needed a haircut. When I awoke from my snooze, they had shorn all his matted locks. I guess when he figured out they weren’t hurting him he just stood there and licked their faces. Silly dog. Pictures of the poor forlorn sheared puppy to follow…
Here’s a picture or two of the yearling move.
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- Buck watching them come thru’ the gate and wanting to go work them
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- Stringing out down the draw with Sue on Beaver encouraging them
Went branding on Saturday afternoon and Sunday. the we had friends arrive to visit a couple days, yesterday afternoon. they are off helping to thin the p dogs at a neighbors. Cindy and I drove Purple up to check a tank this morning and I went to show her the plant I found growing in an old hay corral and we found a p dog who was setting up a home. I shot at him and found blood at the hole, so I think he is going to stay here permanently! I dug up one of the plants and brought it home, got out my plant book and think I found it. Doesn’t seem to be anything bad, so will quit worrying. Last night Bob (friend, not the dog) went and fixed the bad radiator hose on the tractor, then off to fix the bad valve on a tank, but the new part didn’t fix it. Guess I will have to get a whole new valve. We are going to take them up to see Chance and Hope this afternoon/evening.
Few branding pictures from the weekend. Had the camera on the wrong setting so never got too many good ones.
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- Mijo in the distance, framed by peoples legs
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- Our two young calf cutters, 6th and 7th graders, hate to be the boys who try to date them in the future!
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- From my vantage point while holding a calf they are working
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- long rope in front of me
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- Mijo after the branding
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- Kids at the branding Sunday morning
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- Some of the country we gathered in, the second bunch
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- Good young hand, she was in a close call and handled it very smooth
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- crew after the last calf was done
But it looks like the wind is going to come up this afternoon and by midnight really be howling1 Supposed to be some rain with it too. I sure hope so, it is getting dry and the wind has really dried out the grass. Still, a nice spring, but seems like a slow start…
Here’s some photo’s of the last few days. Click to make them BIG
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- Buck “eying” one
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- Some flower growing in an old hay corral, any idea’s what it is
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- first yearling to doctor of the season
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- holes in a sand bank the swallows are nesting in
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- See the bone in the bank and how low it is? wonder what it’s from? Been there for quite a few years
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- birds egg. Hatched or eaten?
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- Yucca about to bloom
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- Death camas!
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- Buck, waiting
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- woodbine or ivy, growing wild
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- some dead critter, looks like a deer or antelope
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- little yellow flower, we have lots of these little yellow flowers of all kinds
Went out this morning to plant the rest of the garden. there is a Carrigana tree/shrub growing on the south side, in bloom and the leaf cutter bees and bumble bees were really working on it so I tried to take some close ups.
After we got the planting done I drug hoses out so I could water the trees behind the house. Then ran the horses in and saddled Beaver and took Buck and Bob and went up to Harry’s and brought the yearling heifers home I am summering. They were typical silly girls, running and playing and looking and then running again. I got most of them moved out of the first pasture and then went back after the rest. After I got them all bunched, thy kind of had their run over and were getting warm, so they behaved much better. Here they are strung out and headed towards the corrals at home.
After I penned them I sorted one of Chances off that was in with them then kicked them out in the hog pasture and across the road. they went good and spread out grazing. I think I will celebrate with a siesta!
Little breeze and in the low 80’s I guess. Feels warm, but in a month it will probably feel cool….
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- Big horse with a little girl
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- We raised this mare. She is sure nice and a cowy booger
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- On top of the north side
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- heading down the draw
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- red ridge runners. 😉
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- Stringing them to the top on the south side
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- one of the boss’s getting up ahead
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- That is strung out
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- Lot’s of riders
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- pushing cows in to get vaccinated and wormed
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- sorted off calves, waiting their turn
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- gathering the second bunch
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- a cool drink after the work is done
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- Big and small, short and tall, we had ’em all, both sexes
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- Discussing world shaking talk…. 😉
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- Mijo taking a break when the work was done
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- Pete giving Dillon a ride
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- Jeff training future bronc and bull riders on the trampoline
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- gettin’ his lick down
So, does this mean we honor mothers or make them work? 😉
Father Peter said a very nice blessing to all mothers at the end of Mass today. He also had a very good homily about love, that followed today’s readings. He’s a nice guy and we only get him a few times a year when our regular priest is not here. Fr Peter is one of the Jesuit’s down at the Sioux Spiritual Center, south of Plainview. He is a very soft spoken, yet dynamic speaker. I always enjoy him.
But back to Mothers Day, I of course think of my Mother. It is amazing all the things Mothers will do for their offspring. I really doubt anyone else would go thru’ what they do for their children. Fathers will do many things also, but only the mother gets to carry the baby and feel all it’s movements for 9 months. And because the baby lies under the mothers heart, I think there is a closer contact. I bet God designed it that way, don’t you think?
Happy Mothers day to all the mom’s out there. And remember, you can be a mother with out actually giving birth. It’s you mom’s like that’s day also….
