Well, we had a blast, as usual. Chance and family and I went down Wednesday afternoon and Dusty and Tris went along and camped with us also. Cindy got Gabe on Thursday evening and came down. Hot, by and large, but it usually is. There had been a l;ittle change in managing it so everyoneContinue reading “Artist Ride 2013”
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Dang!
Went out this afternoon and got the run away ponies in ( they have been crawling under the wire and grazing in the yard, so I have been shooting them in the butt with a BB gun. So then they went across the road to lush green feed) I got a new set of stirrupContinue reading “Dang!”
This and that…
Been trying to get stuff ready for the artist Ride, Finished up a pair of chaps for a guy down there, finished up a pair of woolies for the grandkids and made a new pair for me and Chance… Fixed up an older saddle too…Cindy and I ran down to Rapid yesterday afternoon and boughtContinue reading “This and that…”
Morning..
I woke up early for a change.. seemed like I dreamt all night…Been getting stuff ready for the Artist Ride which happens next week. Cowboy Culture is entertaining this evening at CRS trade show and steak feed…it will be fun to get to work with Paul and Ken after some time away…they are both pumpedContinue reading “Morning..”
Rain!
Been coming down hard as i set here… a regular frog drowner, toad strangler… Yesterday Cindy and I took a horse up to Dustin to ride awhile… not sure why, I can’t seem to get any miles on the last two i got home from him… we came back by Newell and ate an earlyContinue reading “Rain!”
Cool
and overcast this morning…Tate, Kass and kids just left…. they took Cindy’s Mom home on their way. She had ridden out with Cindy on Thursday evening after Cindy got off from work…we all went to Ft Pierre for the Memorial service of Ruby, Cindy’s Gramma…. most of her cousins and all of her aunts andContinue reading “Cool”
Still doctorin’…
I borrowed the neighbors dart gun as a few of these yearlings seem to be having some respiratory trouble and I didn’t want to run them, so I just drove up and shot them with high priced miracle drugs, fairly close… rode out around the pairs this afternoon and I got a bull who isContinue reading “Still doctorin’…”
It’s a dirty job….
But somebody has to do it… I went out and fixed some fence today… some of the water traps were getting a little rough around the edges… while down south I noticed a yearling limping as they trailed off., so this late afternoon, Chance, Gus and I went out and ended up roping and doctoringContinue reading “It’s a dirty job….”
More doctoring
Chance and I rode out this morning and doctored some sickies…this afternoon I worked on setting corral poles… I got all the sections done but my posts are too short to put the last rail on on every other one…I either need to leave them as they are or do some cutting and notching… IContinue reading “More doctoring”
Colts..
Yesterday Gus stayed with me and we went up and got the two colts Dusty and Tris were riding… Brody and Crackerjack…We dug out holes and set posts in the afternoon/evening…found a stinkin’ salamander! Yuck! I had to go to Punkin Center this morning and get a big railroad tie to set at t gateContinue reading “Colts..”