Friends it has just been brought to my attention that my cousin Little Bella has finally been approved to see a specialist that has been a YEAR in the making! BUT we have run into an issue that brings me here to pull on your generosity bone! Her daddy Joe has been working everyday to keep food on the table and a roof over their heads. Her momma Cheryl is her full time caretaker. They are now both using one car as the truck is broken beyond what they can afford to fix. Which leaves the car....yes, you guessed it....it is on it's last legs!! They did their homework to find the right vehicle and are looking at a Quest...a van type vehicle which they need to transport Bella back and forth to her medical appts which are many! To find out more of their story or to donate to help raise funds for their new to them, car...please go to  https://www.youcaring.com/medical-fundraiser/for-the-love-of-baby-bella/232494 Thank you so much in advance! Every little bit helps even if all you ...

September was a difficult month didn't have anything to do with weather really. Mostly it was due to equipment failure. You expect that to happen on a ranch but not this much. It became rather frustrating to try and complete the task of haying. Already behind the "eight ball" so to speak, then we deal with faulty equipment. Oh, well part of the job! Finally after 3wks of fighting it, the swather broke for good. We ended our haying on the 16th! The rest of our hay is being hauled in from the other lease ground we have, so hopefully we will have enough for all the cows we will winter here this year! On another note, we traded in our black toyota pickup on a FJ Cruiser. Ol' Toyo had over 260,000 miles and hubby owned it since it had 32,000 miles so it was a bitter sweet goodbye. But the FJ is a nice rig! It has a bit on the higher mileage 95,000 but if it works like the other it is just broke in! When we left the dealer it was clean, but we have 38 miles of dirt road...