2012 RM Bar Branding

Another year another branding is in the books. All that's left to do is to eat some leftovers and haul the garbage out of the garage and picking up tables and chairs.

This years branding was a success. Things went so smooth and we had more than enough help to get cows worked and calves all branded up. I have to say my calves look a lot better this spring than they did last spring.

I played the sister-in-law card and my wonderful sis-in-law came over and helped me keep my sanity! I left her in charge of my kids and to finish things up in the kitchen for me so I could finish getting branding supplies gathered up and the bovines rounded up. My sister-in-law rocks!


I snapped a few pictures yesterday. I will share more later. Happy Branding!

Branding in Montana

We branded a bunch of calves last Saturday my Uncle Terry's. We pulled out the chuck wagon & used it for shade for the babies and then, of course, we used it to help serve supper!

Good Gravy!!!  4 months later maybe I finally gots everything fixed, the kinks worked out, and all electronic devices talking to each other!!  But don't hold your breathe!

I miss blogging!  I have a list of ideas and things I want to blog about.  Here's hoping I can really do have things up and working correctly and can do that!

Been busy here this spring.

*Calving
*Farming.  Planted 4000 acres of our own, plus some custom stuff
*Garden is semi planted
*Playhouse/tack room building is being constructed.
*We know have a bum calf named Charlie
*Someone in our family got a new saddle, and it wasn't me!
*Took a day trip with my girls to the Bucking Horse Sale
*I heart Twitter!
*I also heart Instagram
*I am on a kick of planning my meals/menu week in advance, and am loving it.


Hope to talk to you soon.  I am off to bed, as we have a big day of branding tomorrow!

CCC

Yahoooo!!

Camera and computer are back 'talking' to each other.  Computer is working.  And whatever problems I have been having with my internet connection has been resolved!

I am back.

Time to play catch up!!

Oops

As you may or may not have noticed, Farming Friday post is late.  Due to camera being uncooperative.  Hope to have it up soon.  Thanks!

Hello

It's Thursday night, and I am partaking in The Rockin' Rural Women Twitter Chat tonight.  Though I have followed Rockin' Rural Women on Facebook and Twitter for  awhile this is only the second chat I have participated in.  I do believe I will keep with it.  It's fun, and in a way it's like a night out with the girls for some conversation and good times without leaving home.

Tomorrow is Farming Friday.  I hope to have pictures of our new (to us) combine.  Or maybe some other pictures.  *Oh the suspense!*

Checking on the Horses

We caught a glimpse of the horses the other day and headed on over to the corral to give a look over and a scratch on the head.  All of our horses, besides ol' Fred, are kicked out to pasture during the winter to take care of themselves.  If the snow is deep, or weather is bad we will take pity and go roll out a bale of hay for them.  They do have to come all the way into the corrals at home to water which makes it easy to keep tabs on them.  

TC is all smiles as Fred says hello.

It was a nice day right after the first of the year, and T had been out enjoying a ride on Fred.  We had TC in the stroller just messing around in the yard when the herd came in. TC was all laughs as the horses were being curious and sticking their noses into her stroller checking her out.  I ran back into the house to snap a few pics of the girls with their dad and our horse herd.

Preacher was very interested in the stroller and TC.

Preacher is kind of a camera hog/poser!  

Just a little bit closer.

Dusty, my good ol horse who is in retirement.  Man I love that horse.

Squirt and 6pack (brother and sister) were quite curious of the stroller also!