Several weeks ago (I know, I know, I’m way, way, way, way, way behind in my blogging) I got to go visit most of our yearling to 3yo fillies, who live with a few of our random geldings. It was a beautiful day for photographs, and I’m going to share them with you. This little [...]
I’m coming to you from the Lone Star State this week! I had to make a quick trip down here, which explains a lot of my absence. Not all of it mind you, but part of it, to be sure. Most readers to this blog know that on the ranch we brand cattle every spring. [...]
In the past two days I’ve ridden three different horses for a minimum of 25 miles. Zach and I moved a couple hundred pairs of cattle. Cleared our AI pasture (named for the fact that it used to house the cattle they’d artificially inseminate), the Saddle Horse Pasture (because that’s where the saddle horses live), [...]
In the previous installment, we covered the basic horse colors: Bay, Black, Brown, Sorrel, Chestnut. Now we’ll delve into some of the more complicated colors. Not that they’re typically hard to distinguish, but they’re more complicated from a genetic standpoint. Here’s what colors we’ll learn: Dun, Buckskin, Red Dun, Grullo, Palomino. We have no shortage [...]
Just when I think the days can’t get any more beautiful, and the colts couldn’t possibly be any prettier, and that my photography couldn’t possibly get any better, a couple weeks ago I had one of the best days behind a camera. Ever. I am undoubtedly one of the most blessed people on the planet. [...]
Trampolines make for great entertainment if you’re a kid: Nailed it! Having a colt sniff you for the first time-this is our other intern, Emily: A cloudy, stormy, western sky: First Rides- this wasn’t Kelsey’s first colt throw a leg over, but it was for our intern, Kara. She’s on the little black colt, we [...]
While the rest of the country suffers from a heatwave- or so says the internet headlines (I don’t really watch the news- I prefer to read it), it was about 75 here yesterday and threatened rain on and off. This past week we began to cut and bale the alfalfa fields, which are right across [...]
Unless you’ve lived on a ranch, are a bull fighter, a bull rider, or a rodeo clown, most of you will never experience the raw exhilaration fear that comes from having a bull blow snot at you, get a little on the hook, and discover, he’s not bluffing. That is exactly what happened to me [...]
Sunday was sort of a lazy day on the ranch. I mean, lazy as they get while it’s sunny and pretty. Some of the branding crew was still around to hang out. And the cows and calves still hadn’t all paired up, so we chose NOT to move them out to pasture. Plus we were [...]
