Later Monday....

The steers are headed to Overton NE...the steers went there last year also.

Payday on the ranch....

Today began early...well before daylight. Actually, it began last spring when the cows had their calves. The men nursed them through their birth, gave them shots and marked them as belonging to the ranch in case they got lost, then watched that they were fed and stayed healthy all through the summer. They moved from the mountain pastures down to the greener, lower pastures in August, then trailed 5 miles down the road to the home meadows in October. The past few days they have been moving closer and closer to the corrals. Kacey got the horses in last evening so they would be ready this morning to ride out. The horse trailers started coming down the road in the darkness, and the men rode out before they could really see where they were going. The horses knew the way, and it gradually got lighter. By the time it was light, the cows were surrounded and moving slowly towards the corrals.

It is quite noisy when all this is going on. The cows are calling to their calves and they just make noise when they are being moved.

A hot time....

What a beautiful day to do anything outside.....even a controlled? burn!!

Snowy Sunday

We took a nice drive this afternoon. The snow stopped about 1 pm and the sun came out.
This is the mountain at sunset...it turns pink every night. That brown patch in the middle is 60 elk. They might show up better if you click once on the picture. The snow was hanging in sparkly globs all over the sagebrush. A picture doesn't show the beauty, but it still is pretty.
I don't know how many miles you can see here, but the far horizon is at least 30.

Grandpa George is cleaning off the deck this morning...there was about 8" of snow there. No one was able to come out today as the roads were closed because of the snow and wrecks. This is especially for the grandchildren who live in warmer climates and don't see snow as much as we do!

The sandhill cranes were bunching up and flying from pasture to pasture yesterday. It was so terribly windy that they probably couldn't find a suitable updraft to continue on south....so they are still here today, flying around and talking about the bad weather!!

Happy Birthday Grandpa

Grandpa and Baby Hazen relaxing together.

Catching up...

Fischer loves to go on walks and the leaves were piling up. The past few days, we have had lots of wind, so there may not be many piles left. The weather man was saying gusts of 70 mph plus.

This morning, we spotted hundreds of sandhill cranes landing and taking off outside the house. I ran to get the camera, turn it to video...it is soooo SLOW....then got the tail end of them going around the end of the house.

Then I ran through the living room and caught them on the backside of the house. Aren't the clouds pretty this morning??? Red in the morning sailors take warning, is the old saying and it is really windy and blowing in a snow storm for tonight.

Busy days..

We spent a day and a half this week helping feed hunters at another ranch. There were 31 people most meals. The big table seated 18 and there were 2 more tables. The girls were enjoying a visit while slicing and dicing!!

Sure is fun riding horses with your cousin!
Chet and Fischer sitting still..... for a minute.