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Horsing Around
We had a long full day on the ranch yesterday. Some pictures will tell bits of the tale.
I took this photo while we were working at the chute. Morgan and Russell had shared a really scary moment with a cow outside the shed. When they came back in afterward they were laughing hard. Apparently after the danger had passed Morgan said to Russell, “do you want to trade underwear?”This is our cousin Dawson. He gave each animal an injectable dose of Vitamin A&D. He is fantastic help. Russ running the hydraulics to control the gates.Later on I joined the guys when they headed to the pasture. I got some pictures. Then I took the truck and trailer home, they came back with 80 pairs. Cousin Laurie saddling up.Laurie is ready to roll.Getting horses out of the trailer.Dawson is ready. Gates, tying and untying, a constant part of ranching.Russ and Bingo ready to roll.Morgan with the dogs. Knightwing in the back, Bingo in the middle, Maddie up front. Knightwing is meant to simply be our guard dog. However she has a desire to be working with Russ and has been improving as a cattle dog. This day she earned the “dog of the day” award. The trip home started off well for this herd but got frustrating. By this moment when the herd finally decided to turn off the road and into the yard we knew frustration. Animal behaviour is tough. Frustration was a theme yesterday, arising in casual conversation at lunch(which we ate in the garage), in connections I made in my own brain about my own behaviour, the experience of very vivid frustration for the whole crew together and then in a phone call with Gina in the evening she talked about it. I think it will be the subject of a future blog.Getting everyone into the corral took time.Here you can see Jill. She came out of quarantine to help in these moments and had been checking the cow and heifer herds all day for calving troubles. Its 6:59am now, on Sunday and she is out doing the morning check. Dawson shared this adorable photo of the barn cats with me.
So many busy adventurous days on the ranch! So like seeing in the pictures and imagining with your writing what life is like on the ranch on any given day!
As Far As The Eye Can See 
So many busy adventurous days on the ranch! So like seeing in the pictures and imagining with your writing what life is like on the ranch on any given day!
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