Adventures Of Life!

This time of the season we have to wean the calves from their mommas. We are fortunate enough to have some good mommas who have already started weaning their babies off. So the process is a bit easier for some, not so easy for others. We started out moving them in on Thursday, Friday we sorted out the calves and shipped off the ones we were not keeping. Today we started sorting thru our momma cows, keepers and travelers. It has been an interesting venture especially for this girl!

The coming winter season always gets me stirring come the end of Aug. beginning of Sept., which causes me to start getting serious about resupplying my food storage, pulling out the winter wear, putting away the mower, garden tools and gathering wood. So I started buying from online, Amazon is so awesome for this. I am a thrifty shopper buying local, in these parts you can buy from "Western Family". Had to hunt down the closest place to buy the "case good sale", Ekalaka-Main Street Market is the closest here and so happy I found them. It has already been down to 21* here so we are moving pretty quickly to get the rest of our prep done. The Guys are getting the rest of the hay hauled in and stacked. Fences mended which is on going, watching the cows and buttoning up the houses for winter. I am helping with the latter on our place, we live in a double wide that is a few decades old but has been well taken care of. Some things are outdated but still nice none the le...

It's Sunday Don't Ya Know! Sundays are our days off as much as you can have one on a ranch. The "Boys" have decided to get on the horses and go find whatever cows haven't drifted down. Us "Girls" and her boys are staying home to do whatever we do. Today I am gonna try to finish up this quilt that someone ordered this last spring. It is a memory quilt of sorts, kind of cool to see someone else's memories in full color. This will be a queen quilt when I am done. Last night I got the strips sewn together, today I will sew the strips together to make one piece. I really am getting excited to see this one done.......pretty cool! This morning I had to get my head screwed on straight so to speak, when the weather gets like this it takes some adjustment for my body. Many aches and pains, but I keep goin no matter what, "Cowgirl Up". Just takes me a bit longer than some and shorter than others! LOL! As I was sayin' just get my mind r...

Woke to another day of dreary. No I am not complaining, we need the moisture! But it makes for a day of inside projects that I have been dying to get to. We are all ready for the cows to come in for preconditioning, just waiting out the weather. The guys went up yesterday and opened the gates so the cows could drift down this way, and thank goodness the weather has pushed down closer to us! Last night I was reminded of an event that someone asked me to make some jewelry for. I forgot because we were so busy! Well today I have managed to get it together, I had a barrette in my stash that I made this last year and it was the right colors so I made a pair of earrings to match. Turned out beautiful if I do say so myself! After doing his morning chores , my hubby is getting into his leather projects and getting some saddles ready for this weeks ride up the way. Saddles were dropped off for him to fix! What a fun day we are having so far! Hope you have a great weekend! Off to wo...

Oh, What a Beautiful Day! We are preparing to bring cows in from way up there, as far as you can see in the pic is how far we have to go to get our red cows. It is that time of year to separate the mommas from the babies and to ship them off to their new homes. Shorty ,my little dog and I ran around on our 4 wheeler taking care of chores. He really likes to go for rides, so I made him a place to ride.  Got the barn cleaned out, the bottle babies pasture is revamped with new feeder and mineral barrel. Planted the flowers I bought yesterday.Took lots of pics. Just generally had a nice day!