There has just been so much going on lately. I’m sure that no one is even reading this by now since I’ve been sporadic at best. I’m going to try to get caught up on the goings on around here in this post, and then I will hopefully be back to posting every day as per my usual routine.
A week ago we had a prairie fire in one of our north pastures. I will post photos soon as I get them off my camera.
Yesterday we had a funeral for my Uncle Larry, in Manhattan, KS. That was interesting. His wife and kids want nothing to do with the family and his 350lb daughter threatened my 105 lb mother with bodily harm. I’m sure that my mother is mean and evil and needed be threatened (why would you do that anyway, really). His family didn’t care that he had died. They asked no questions. And they were less than cooperative with his brothers and sisters. Thankfully, they left all the planning up to Larry’s brothers and sisters.
Some of Larry’s family didn’t come, because they were afraid that his daughter and ex-wife of 36 years might cause a scene. They didn’t but regardless. I did get to see some family and they all got to meet my favorite cowboy, Zach.
The silver lining in this is that I got to get in touch with some family history. We had the funeral at a church that was started and built by the Zeller/Avers family back in 1882. Construction on the current church building was finally finished in 1899. It’s a beautiful stone building complete with a bell tower. The pulpit was built by my great great grandfather Zeller and is still in the church.
Somehow yesterday evening on our way home, we either picked up another cat, or one of the wild mama cat’s babies found her way to the engine block of the ranch pickup. The kitten was yowling around in there this morning. I really thought it was one of my mama cat’s babies, but not so much.
Today we’ll head to Dupree, SD to a barrel race.
Nora has still not had her baby last I checked her. We moved the bulls out of that pasture on Monday and there was still NO baby! But, it stormed last night, and so that’s a good time for a mare to have her baby! If I have time today I will check on her. Shuttle’s baby isn’t due until August, and we still have two mare in addition to my two that are still to colt.
I started a Facebook page last week for Ducheneaux Quarter Horses. If you’re on Facebook and want to follow us, click on the link and do it!
Have a happy Thursday folks!
Wow,. you don't expect to go to a funeral and break out in a family brawl!