Happy President’s day. Toni, the kids, the friends and I finished up sorting the cows and turning out bulls. We got the joy of sorting Ben’s longhorns, both have calved. The nice one, Wilma, decided to switch places and become the mean one after she calved. Basically they are both real joys. Ben was at work so at least we didn’t have to hear how we were handling them wrong, making them mean. We don’t handle them wrong. They are just mean. Luckily they didn’t get anyone, we all get out of their way. We ran the Hereford down to mom and dads. Still snowy, icy, and a mess out. Toni and I got some more pics feeding the mares in the snow. Anna and Kaitlyn headed back to college after lunch. There was a break in the snow/rain at around 1, so that is when they left. And it was 35 degrees. Emma came out and took some pics of the mares in the snow.
was up to the high 30s on Tuesday, Toni had a heck of a time checking cows between the snow and the melting snow. It was a pretty gray day. Motley calved and had a bull calf. Kade and Jaxsen fed the horses, Toni was filing documents for court. The men and Kaine did cow chores and fed the cattle.
On Wednesday I stayed home from work sick, the dogs were happy that someone was home all day. Mom stayed with grandma Wednesday day. Monica the clubby cow had a cute grey/silver calf that Toni wants to keep. Another cow had an Angus calf. We are on the tail end but still have calves trickling in. Kade took a bull and heifer to the vet before school. It is National FFA week and Wednesday at Connell happened to be “Going Showing” day. Kade got to dress like a showman and take the pu and trailer to school so he was taking the theme seriously. Toni had court Wednesday morning, then she showed her miniature horse cold, Lord Farquaad, to some people. She only agreed because they were keeping him as a stallion. Jaxsen helped Toni feed the mares since I did not go down. Toni stayed with grandma Wednesday night.
On Thursday Toni had a hard time checking with the fog, slush, frozen slush, ice, etc. But she made it. It took two trips around the field to find the heavies. Toni and I fed the mares on Thursday. They were not as excited to see us as they have been since most of the snow has melted. But everything is a muddy mess and trying to drive around is not fun. Coco the lab needed to ride in the cab of the pu because she doesn’t like riding on the back while people are feeding hay and having horse noses in her space. Lots of water all over the place with the massive snow melt.
More nice weather on Friday, it was cold first thing but warmed up. Ben stayed home from work and put CIDRs in the cows so we could AI the following Sunday. Toni was going to help him but she had court scheduled on Friday, so he was on his own with the dogs. He could have asked for help but felt like he could get it done. They all got it done. Anna and Lane came home on Friday. Most of the snow was gone by Friday night so we did not feed the horses in the desert. I went and stayed with grandma, she is sill not sleeping.
Kade went to St John to shoot trap on Saturday. I think the Connell Team did pretty good. Anna and I got some pictures of calves when we were out checking. We checked everything and put mineral out Ben, Lane and Kaine put straw out and cleaned up the pen with all the rain we have been getting. We had people come out to look at foals. They had one picked out but ended up falling in love with a different filly and decided they needed to get two. Kade got stuck in the canyon going down the alley, I was out putting grass bales out when he called. So he started the old Ford tractor while he waited for me and we jerked the canyon out. The mud was deep and things were really a mess. I drove up and down the alley to break all the ice up in the FORD while he finished chores. Toni came down and helped him feed hay out in the pasture.
“It Will Never Get Easier, but You Will Handle Hard Better” is a great video by Duke Coach Kara Lawson. It is one of those inspirational videos that reminds you that hard times suck but you can handle it. Even though we continue to encounter setbacks with Opal, we continue to work through issues with the hope that even if the foals don’t live, we have done everything within our power to help Opal through this and keep her healthy. We will have a new update this weekend. We heard come feedback that people were bad they did not have one last weekend. Sorry.
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