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My View

23 Tuesday Jul 2013

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My view most days. Ears of my gray horse. Red angus cattle. Lots of dust.

Evenings are spent hosing that dust off of four kids who manage to look as though they rolled through the dirt before the end of the day.

Come to think if it, I’d bet money that’s exactly what my four year old does!

Catwalks

19 Friday Jul 2013

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My new catwalk! Cannot tell you how excited I am about this. When we are working cattle, one of the jobs is loading cattle into the alley and from the alley into the chute. Cattle move more smoothly when the alley has solid sides and curves toward the chute. This is all well and good, unless you are too short to see over the top of the solid sides of the alley. A catwalk allows easier access to the cattle and is a godsend to those of us who are much closer to five feet tall (me) than six feet tall (my husband).

Our cowboss, Joe, built this last weekend and it was a great surprise to come home to after yet another weekend on the road. We worked heifers yesterday and although it was a long, hot, dusty day, the catwalk made life easier for the shorter people (me and the kids) on the ranch.

And the neon pink rattle paddle? My daughter and I share it. Odd that the cowboys never seem to use it…

Mooooo!

18 Thursday Jul 2013

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This mama cow is ready to unload from the trailer! We hauled her and her calf to a new meadow where the rest of the pairs are grazing for the next few weeks. She was spending a little time by the barn while we doctored her calf for pink-eye. He’s now fully recovered and it’s time for them to join the rest of the herd.

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