This past week, I was up at the house working on making a mess in the kitchen (yes, yes, just for you guys to see on here hopefully soon!) when I looked outside and saw smoke barreling out of the field of wheat stubble across the hill. So, what do we do? We hop on a…
Counting Our Blessings – Green Wheat
I am so thankful for the beautiful rains we’ve received some of recently! I’m not the only one feeling that way either – The wheat seems quite happy as well. Of course, we could still use some more moisture, it’d help the pastures and ponds – but I’m counting blessings right now! Speaking of wheat,…
Checking Cattle in the Flint Hills
A week or so ago, I got to ride along out in the Flint Hills to check some cattle that had been turned out not long before. There were storm clouds boiling up and hovering over the plains, the grass was turning a beautiful shade of green and we were dodging some little (and not so…
Eyes, Nose, Ears and Cattle
I love baby calves! Especially bucket calves that you can walk up to and they’ll start playing and running around with you. Which is why I’m sharing some pictures of a couple of little guys I got to play with a few times this week. These guys don’t hold still very long, so half…
Springtime Happenings!
It’s finally spring! With that happy thought in mind, I pulled my camera out this afternoon and went in search of the new things happening around the farm – A pen being built, kittens being born (lots and lots of kittens!), and the fruit trees in full bloom. Here’s one of the two litters of…
Spring Cleanup and Burning
It’s officially spring and with that came cleaning up (and burning) dead trees and brush in one of the pastures. As I just mentioned, our overall goal was to clean the dead trees out of the pasture and burn them – Without burning the rest of the pasture. It worked.. Pretty well.. At first! After…
Meeting of the Birds
I wasn’t sure what to title this post. Meeting of the birds? Meeting of the minds? Meeting of the feathers? Meeting of the turkeys? I give up! Maybe I should just go ahead and tell you what I’m even talking about… I’m talking about this: See, the turkeys on the right – Those are our…
A Walk With Many Tails
Last week I went for a long walk. I’m thinking that the round trip ended up being a couple miles. It started with intention of following a fence, finding a spring, and then having it lead me to a beaver dam. Did I find it? Sorta, maybe, kinda.. No, not really. I may have found…
Happy Cattle and A Pretty Sky
Recently, I’ve come to the conclusion that I must have a knack for telling when cattle are happy and when they aren’t. And as for these cattle, they were happy! (Hence the title!) So, (now that we’ve got that whole thing sorted out!) Several days ago, someone decided it was the perfect day for a…
Border Collies, Cattle Moving, and Playing with the Bulls
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve tagged along in the truck to feed cattle. I’ve rode with border collies, had border collie butts stuck in my face over the excitement of an open window, been sat on by more than one border collie (at a time!) and had many more adventures… With border colllies. …