Another crazy whirlwind of a week as summer flies by. The boys only worked their harvest job Monday and Tuesday this week. Which was good because Anna and I went to Tulsa, Oklahoma and met McKenna and our WA friends at the National Jr. Angus Show. So Toni needed them home to do chores. I think they would have preferred to be at work. We had people out on Monday to look at the studs. We are done breeding the bulk of our mares, but we have people wanting to breed theirs. Toni took her on a tour and she fell in love with Sagebug, so she is going to bring her mare out to breed to him.
On Tuesday Anna and I left early to be on the first flight out of Pasco to Tulsa for Angus Jr Nationals. We needed to be there midafternoon, Anna was a Jr Angus voting delegate and the meet and greet was that evening. We got there at 1, so took a nap before the evening events. I went to the expo square after dropping Anna off and hung out with Vejraskas. Toni and Jaxsen got horses in on Tuesday to ultrasound Wednesday. Jaxsen had a great time being Toni’s only helper all day. They had to bring in mares out of five different fields, sort them out, and haul them to mom and dads. They had mares stashed in every conceivable pen for the Wednesday ultrasound.
McKenna got to Tulsa to hang out with us Wednesday morning. Kat, Anna, McKenna and I walked around and hung out. We watched some of the bred and owned show. Toni, Kaine, Kade, Jaxsen, Hailey Wilson, and Vanessa ultrasounded 24 horses and 3 heifers. They tried to ultrasound 25, but one of the mares was really acting up. It is not worth getting a human or horse hurt so she didn’t get done. There were some shocks, some disappointments, but overall the mares were bred how we expected or not. There were 5 not bred or early bred. The three heifers were show heifers, Kade’s Nile Merit heifer, his simm heifer and Kaine’s heifer Baby Jewel. All heifers were bred. It was a really long day but with all the help, I hear it went ok. The mare to breed to Sagebug also came in on Wednesday.
On Thursday McKenna, Anna and I watched Kady’s show in showmanship. She was an honorable mention, which was really exciting. Good job Kady. Anna was awarded the Jean Ann (Neumeyer) Bojorquez Memorial & Robert Hollyce Neumeyer Angus Scholarship Thursday as well. We also watched the PGS show on Thursday. Chandolin from WA made it back to the division championship round in Bred and Owned PGS. At home Toni took two mares to the vet to get their serum pulled to see if they need to stay on regumate. Both older. One we think lost her foal even though she is on regumate. Both mares were high end show horses back in the day and are not older pet broodmares. Kade took a different trailer and his horse to help at the Freedom Rodeo in Basin City as they were short handed on Thursday. Dad had to run his hat and a long sleeved shirt down to him. He had a good time. Three of the outside mares left Thursday, so Toni was shipping horses out until after 8 pm that night.
Happy 4th of July. We had McKenna in the morning before she went back to a work party late afternoon. We watched some of owned heifer show and watched the final round of showmanship. We watched Leah from WA show, she did great, was 6th in her class. We also watch Colter Meads and Cora Habein from Oregon show. At home they had the typical lake party. It sounds like everyone had a good time. At home it was colder than normal for the 4th but that was probably nice. They found a little turtle at the lake so everyone oohed and ahhed over the turtle before they put it back. Anna’s dogs jumped on everyone because they were lonely. It was a good 4th in Washington.
We headed home bright and early Saturday. Kady showed both of her heifers on Saturday, so we missed her showing. Our plane landed around 1. Toni texted me we needed pics of Shooter, so I brought some big bales down when I came and we got some pics of him. John sent some pics he got of Derringer. Toni got MC’s pen in an sorted the two big foals out and kicked those pair out into the field. We also were able to move Zelle back to the yearling filly pen. She had been in a dr. pen because she hurt her leg. We had another outside mare leave Saturday. Toni and her crew along with Leslie, Marlo, McCall, and Kaine all went to the Basin City Freedom Rodeo Saturday night where they saw lots of friends and had a great time. Our friends put that rodeo on and do a great job.
On Sunday Sonny brought Kade a half Haflinger mare to ride. She is really cute. Kaine and I went out and checked for bad eyes and took some pics. It was hot so everyone was laying in the water, so hard to check eyes. Jaxsen and I put out two more big bales. Toni rode Electra. We fly sprayed everything we that would let us, made sure every living thing had water and food and just tried to get through a hot July day.
“Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.”
– Shaquille O’Neal
If our blog seems repetitive, our goal is to have healthy happy livestock and we spend the majority of our time working towards that end.
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