The general consensus is that the bull jumped the fence on that one. 

Monday was Memorial Day. A special day to remember all our brave soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice to defend our country from its enemies. On Sunday Mom, Dad, Jaxsen, Skip, Erina and Terry went and put flowers on graves and remembered everyone. They went up to St. John then back. They took Skip out to lunch at St. John and saw some friends at the bar/cafe.

On Monday Mom and I went down to see Grandma. Kaine was going to go with us but mom said we would be there around 3 hours and she did not know if he wanted to go. So he jumped out the door and ran back to the house, I did not even have it in park yet. So he stayed to help Ben and Anna sort cows and switch the heifers and bulls, and switch pastures. It was a Monday for Toni so she was working getting ready for a trial on Tuesday. The older kids all worked on their animals after sorting cows. When Mom and I got home in the afternoon I went down and got King’s pen and fixed the fence. Toni took Gracie for a ride and ponied the yearling filly Holly along. They both did great.

On Tuesday Anna went to Pullman after school for Meats judging. Toni had a trial in the afternoon. Eddy foaled and had a bay/brown roan colt.  Jaxsen rode the bus home and Kaine and Kade started football practice. They have a few weeks-long spring season. Kade saddled up Stormy while they did chores and worked on her when they got done for a few minutes. Kaine and Kade did their chores and Annas when they got home. And Jaxsen helped dad move water. We had some people show up to look at Dude to breed their mare, but they wanted us to hand breed and we do not have time for that, so we sent them to Holly to bred to Whitty. Tuesday night we got a bunch of mares in and moved around for Allie to come ultrasound on Wednesday. We had mares all over.

On Wednesday Anna texted that they got 4^th in Meats at state. Great job. Lendy had a bay colt, which really matched the one out of Eddy, but Lendy’s is out of King and Eddy’s is out of Sagebug. Last year they had matchy-matchy foals too. Kind of funny. The boys had football practice, dad picked them up again. Allie brought Reba home and ultrasounded some mares. We wanted to ultrasound the ones that had been with Leroy, to see if they were bred or we needed to put them with a different stud. Leroy got all of his mares bred except one. We will have one more Leroy foal for this year, Crystals. As of right now we are keeping Cammy’s colt to replace Leroy, we will see what happens. I wanted to call him Jac and Toni wanted to call him Chexy, his name is Chex this Jac, and Allie’s daughter came up with a good solution, Jexy.  We also had an extra mare, Charlie, who somehow came home Tuesday night, so she also got ultrasounded. We ended up ultrasounding 12 mares, 10 of which were bred. So that is pretty good. It was a long day. After Allie left we went and got the trailer hooked up for Thursday.

                On Thursday dad and Toni went and picked Cappy up from Jordans and took Debbie’s gelding. Jordan did an amazing job, Cappy is doing so great. We are talking about having him shown. Toni said she should have taken her boots and jumped on him. Toni also got a few pics of John Grays’ gelding there by Leroy and out of Lona and of Jordan’s mare he has for sale. Cappy has immense talent and a good mind, so really a good combo. We got him home and put Sally in with him. Sally is HZ roan, and a buckskin so we could get a cool foal out of the cross. Kendel brought a little 4 year old girl down to pet horses and to sit on Libby the cow. Libby doesn’t mind small children sitting on her, but she boycotts big kids. The little girl, Nova, got to pet quite a few horses.

Friday was an interesting day. Toni went to Kennewick to see grandma. I started out with flat tires on my poor beat up Colorado. The air chuck was in Ben’s work pickup. I went and got dads and aired up my tires. Then I needed gas. We had someone coming out to look at the black Herefords. I got stuck getting them in. No one was around. The dogs and I get the cows in on foot. No, no horses around me, they had gotten out into the big pasture and would not be lured over to me so I could catch one. Get to the house, get in Anna’s work pickup, get a flat tire in it. So I finished the cows on the lawn mower. Later that day after Toni pulled me out I got the horses in. Willy came out with his son and they looked at the heifers and said they would let us know, I thought that meant it would be a bit, so I turned them out. He texted later the next day he wanted to get them. We also need a horse for Willy’s son, something sane, sound, broke, and not super expensive if anyone knows of anything. Willy’s son wants to rope and his horse coliced and died. We did chores then Kade and Toni rode out and about getting Stormy used to stuff. They both rode with a halter, so that was interesting when Kade’s horse spooked, but he got her slowed up after a bit. Stormy really did great. Most young horses will spook of a weird dog bounding through tall grass.

Saturday Anna helped McKenna at the farmers market with strawberries. Kade had a football game then went to his gf’s house for a party. So Ben, Kaine and I went and picked up grass hay that Dan Schneider gave to the kids for their projects.  Anna brought home strawberries for us, they were great. Kaine, Toni and I did chores.

Sunday we got the cows in again and sorted out the sold ones for George to preg check. Anna and I were going to ride chasing them back down, bareback since we just needed to push them back. Anna ended up riding my horse, and I drove. Anna, Kaine and Kade washed their steers and heifers. Kaine and Kade also went down to the lake and went and brought the paddle boat back in. Toni and I moved Lendy and Eddie out with Sagebug. Hauled the Hereford cows down to be with the Angus bull. Ben fixed the fencer that was shorting out and then moved hay around. He is also cooking for our trip to Angus Preview in Filer in a few weeks.  Toni and Kade rode again, but had bridles on this time. The big event was Kicker in his Razor, but Stormy handled it well. We have a couple of really pretty flower seed fields around the house, so I asked the owner if we could take pictures of Anna in them, he said yes. So we went and took some pictures of Anna in a couple of the fields. The pictures turned out very pretty.

Down to 2 mares left to foal. Of course, we are excited for the last 2- Crystal bred to Leroy and Blue bred to King. 2 good old mares that could have some pretty exciting foals. We are finally done calving. Kaine’s “show heifer” had a bw faced heifer. As she was supposed to be bred to an Angus heifer bull, the general consensus is that the bull jumped the fence on that one.