On Monday Ben was home to check cows with Anna and then he tagged calves. Which was good because we had been moving things out of the bedroom all weekend and did not get any of the calves out in the circle tagged. He texted he was out of tags. The kids and Ben did chores. Toni and her family went to Vegas for the NFR. I hear they had a good Monday. They went to South Point and watched roping, which Kade was really excited about.
Happy 16th birthday Kaine. Toni got him a gift card to Applebees for Date night, since he hates the song Fancy Like. Mom reported that when he opened it Kaine said, “they think they are funny don’t they??” Yes, why yes we do. Ben and I got him a leveler kit for his pickup, that did not work on his pickup, so he is now going to sell it on marketplace. Him, Kade and their friend Cyson worked on it for a few days before it was determined it would not work. Dan was out working on my floors again, he is almost done with this winter project, just one more day left. Kaine helped me move some things back to the bedroom while Anna and Ben made chicken fried steak and onion rings. Kaine had two of his cows calve on his birthday, both bull calves. Toni and family went to the rodeo and had a great time. Toni always likes to say that NFR is the superbowl of rodeos. Her and Kade also went to Cowboy Christmas as the convention center and had a great time.
On Wednesday Ben worked on the mixer for the shower, I guess it mixes the hot and cold water?? It was leaking behind the shower. Dan was out to finish the floors. Dad took Red into commercial tire to get “new shoes” as dad put it and the oil changed. We are having lots of calves every day, the AI cows are calving and the ones bred to the bulls. Toni and family came home from Vegas. They were there by chore time. The dogs all missed them a bunch.
Thursday was Jaxsen’s last basketball game, the boys played well but they had a trick ball that would not go in the basket. Jaxsen played really well, especially since he hadn’t been to practice since the week before. He was disappointed they didn’t’ win but overall they had a great season and we are proud of him for getting out there and playing. Cammie got herself stuck in a circle track on Thursday, so Toni, Kade and dad got her out. Then she walked into the corral and waited for Toni to give her grain. We feel pretty confident that she will be fine. When she was wedged in we were all a bit worried, but someone she came out of it fine. Kaine went and got a haircut on Thursday. Now Kade and Kaine both have mullets. We have told them that a mullet is not cool. They disagree. Toni also got Capone and Baby Blackie in so we could get them worked on a few times before they left on Saturday. They are both pretty easy to catch and deal with, the mud was the biggest factor. The boys put a bale of straw in the round pen and it barely dented the mud collection. It did give the foals a nice, warm, dry spot, but it was still not ideal.
The sun was out on Friday. Toni, Marlo and the kids did chores, I went and stayed with grandma. Toni and Marlo got Baby Blackie and Capone in, worked on them and practiced loading them to leave on Saturday morning. Baby Blackie had never been loaded before, but really did quite well. Capone was a typical Gunner colt and would throw himself into the trailer. Everything he does, he does whole heartedly. Both were great. Baby Blackie has always been a Marlo favorite so she really worked on her a bunch.
Foals loaded great on Saturday and headed to their new home in La Pine. We had a handful of new calves to tag on Saturday, and we cleaned out the heavy heifer pen and turned all those pairs out. Toni and Kade fixed the hot fence at their house. I brought the red trailer down on Saturday and Toni and I practiced loading Halo and Mouse and For practiced loading himself. Ben, Kaine and Kade put out grass bales with the horses. We had Kaine’s birthday party Saturday night, and Kendra and Lane both came to it. So we all got to meet Kendra. It was an exhausting day for Leo.
More babies on Sunday to tag. The ram was trying to distract cows while Ben was tagging and got chased around the pickup. The ram’s owners showed up on Sunday and finally picked him up. Trena and Kenny from Tonasket came on Sunday a little before noon and bought Mouse and Halo, Mouse is Trenas and Halo is Kennys. They also both loaded great. Ben and Anna got the steers and heifers in out of the alfalfa field to sort off and weigh the heavier ones for a buy looking for some show steers. They kept them in and are waiting to hear back. Toni and Kade had wormed most of the horses left out in the pasture when I got down there. Then we got For and Ghost in to halter break. Toni tells be we have to continue in the mud, the halter breaking fairy has not shown up and they are not doing it themselves. Added to the fact that the foals just keep growing and getting bigger, so not easier to halter break. We are down to 8 left to get done, so not terrible. I had taken Rosie back to my house to Tulip is going to have to get the last 8 done herself. Hopefully they aren’t going to be bad.
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