Rode down and roped and doctored a bad eye heifer this morning. Made something work I have tried before but never got to work to good. After I got her roped and laid down I got the rope between her hind legs and around one and back up in a figure eight around her neck and then did that a couple more times. It pulls the hind leg up towards her neck like a scotch hobble on a horse, but doesn’t choke them. You do this several times so that when you tighten it up she is pretty much immobilized. Then I stepped off and tied her hind legs together, slipped the piggin’ string off and the rope from around her neck and let her go. Slick!
Then I mowed the road ditches and got the rake ready. I will probably rake it tomorrow and get a baler and bale the hay. Then I will have to get the team and haul and stack bales! Oh boy! Sweat, it’s a good thing, right? 🙂
Went to Punkin Center and got some twine and some salt and mineral and scattered the salt out to the cows. Got a haircut also. Gramma baby set the grandsons for Hope. They have plans to go to Cheyenne to Frontier days this weekend. I will stay here and tend the home fires and let Gramma have the trip down with Hope. She can baby set while Hope and Chance have a night out.
I rode Peaches up west this afternoon and put some pairs back that got out thru’ a down gate.
Found out Bob can get out of a tiny gap in the horse trailer. I put the dogs in the horse trailer seeing as Bob tore a hole in the dog house and they can get out of it now. Another job on the to do list.
Dennisranch 
We usually try and heel the critter and I carry a long two inch wide belt that I strap around their head and on front leg to hold them down. I’ve also used it to tie their feet together too. We used it when we want to castrate bull calves this time of year and it works pretty handy.
Pictures would be nice! 🙂 Just around one leg and the head? No other ropes on them?
What is Bobs problem..is he bored or just feeling his teenage oats? We have not seen a photo of him in a long time.:)
He’s just too young and I haven’t worked with him enough. Need to get after that. He really doesn’t look any different than the last pictures and I never seem to take good ones of dogs.