Yes, it is already getting close to summer!

Monday was a pretty but stormy day. The boys were still on spring break Monday, so they loaded bulls for Dad, Steve and Uncle Skip to take to Wagners in Wilbur. Then Kaine rook Riggs in to see Sheena at Sagehill Vet, Riggs was looking anemic as she had the puppies.  More cows decided that they were done being out on the sagebrush, so required someone to go get them in. Luckily the boys handled that too. The kids also worked on their cattle to get ready to go to the next show, which is an Angus show. We are still supplementing July, the baby jack. Kade had a friend out for dinner on his last day of spring break.

Tuesday morning Toni got up early to go into the school to take pics of the FFA Officers. She took a lot of really good pics. I got to edit them. 17 of the mares got the gate open to get out into the desert, so Toni got them in. She was not impressed with Piper D. Piper D was not ready to go back in. She also had some trouble getting some panels open to get 4 of the mares back in so had to just take them all down and set them back up one-by-one. That ended up taking quite a bit of time. Mom, Dad and Skip went to Davenport on Tuesday to meet Luanne. No new foals when we fed that night. Toni went and stayed with Grandma.

On Wednesday when Toni went to check Izzy had a brown colt by MC. She got to scratch him. Yo was acting off, so she went back down to check later and she had to pull it. The MC babies are pretty good sized. Kaine came home sick, he had a head cold and was disrupting class coughing so they sent him home. But he was on call to help. Toni called him to come help, then told him she had it. By Wednesday, July really didn’t want to be supplemented anymore on the milk, so it was a fight to get him to accept the syringe. Toni told Mom they are giving it up.

Toni had people out on Thursday. Some to visit with, some to look at horses. She finally got to meet her friend Tecla in person, they sometimes practice law together on bankruptcy cases. Tecla brought her kids out to see the livestock. The girls got to pet the donkeys, the foals, and a bunch of the ex-show heifers that thought kids feeding them was a great plan. The girls also got to play with the puppies. The puppies get quite a few visitors. Mom made the girls some cute bags with her sublimation printer. We then had a couple of other people out to look at yearlings and foals. They plan to come back out after we have a few more on the ground. Overall it was a good day!

The mares did not foal Thursday because Toni was down in the circle too much with all her people. Piper D had a fancy dun filly by Dude and Huck had a cute bay roan filly by Cappy. Chad came out and we trimmed some horses before we headed to Ellensburg. The kids had the trailers packed and headed out. About 8 miles outside of Othello we came to a car wreck, we got turned around and headed towards Moses Lake and went to Ellensburg via Moses Lake. We still made it. We got set up and stayed with cousin Bobette and Ryan. Apparently, Toni had been starving Jaxsen for DAYS and he ate them out of house and home.

We were up early to show Saturday, and actually not even that early, it was a blow and go show and did not start until 10, so only 5:30. That’s a pretty late show morning. Showmanship was first, youngest to oldest. Jaxsen and Daffy did great. Kade got called back in Intermediate. There were only 3 Srs so Kaine showed as a Sr, Anna was Grand Champion with Hazel and Kaine was Reserve with Baby Jewel, who actually did not show that great for her. Bred and Owned steers were next, Jaxsen had Daffy Duck. They did great. Ashley Henry had a steer she bought from us at the Evergreen Sale. Her brother showed him in PeeWee showmanship, and was Reserve Champion. He is a great steer. Ashley and the steer were third in their class. Anna’s cow and calf were Grand Champion Cow and Calf, the heifer calf won her division, Kaine’s bred and owned heifer won her division. Shortbred (Anna) and Cookie (Kade) were Grand Champion and Reserve Champion in their divisions. Baby Jewel (Kaine) was third in her class. Hazel (Anna) and Blossom (Kade) were first and second in their class and Hazel was Reserve Champion in her division. The Henry kids helped us pack up after they got theirs packed and we headed out. Leslie and Julian were in Davenport showing, and they picked up Kade’s Nile Merit Heifer sign. We got home in time to do chores and check horses. We also had people out to look at the yearling colts. A friend of the family, and we were sad to hear her dad had passed away. He was a good friend to our Grandpa.

Another new foal on Sunday, Rosie B waited until we got back to foal. Toni showed horses again on Sunday, so Anna, and then Kade, helped me move mares after Toni helped me get them in. Busy day catching up from being gone. The two big boys are now working on the cattle they are taking to Spokane. Jaxsen doesn’t plan on working on anything, but got told that he needs to change his attitude. Anna continues to work on her cattle. Due to the timing of FFA state, the kids will miss the big angus show in Madras. They have too much fun at FFA state. Anna has finals for college and then is hopefully coming home for the summer. Yes, it is already getting close to summer!