Happy Birthday Jaxsen!! Monday was Jaxsen’s birthday, at before dawn, since he had to get ready for school, he opened Grandma Sherri’s present of Dr Pepper. You know, a breakfast of champions. Just what the Dr ordered. We got some pictures on Monday of Kade having fun at FFA National convention. Kaine and Jaxsen did the horse chores, Toni and I halter broke the next three foals, I say halter broke on day 1 since we did not even need the donkeys. Because we weaned the rest of the foals over the weekend, we had quite a few angry foals. Some weren’t too excited to eat so we had to spread hay and some grain across the pen to try to lure the foals over to the feeding area. Kaine went up after chores and helped Ben finish the cattle chores. Ben came home from the Nile with the Nile crud, so we are trying to stay away from him.
Tuesday was a beautiful day. Toni is still going in the morning and catching the show cattle for the boys since Kade is gone. Ben catches Anna’s. Tuesday was Jaxsen’s last football game. Mom stayed with Grandma on Tuesday, so dad and Skip went and picked her up on the way to the game. Toni worked on the three foals and then Kaine and I finished the horse chores. Then Kaine went up to help Ben with the cattle chores. It is feeling pretty fallish out, however, it is not that cold for being mid October. We are still trying to steer clear of Ben and his crud.
On Wednesday Toni and Dad went to Kennewick and were going to pick up the pork on the way home but ran out of room in the car. Kaine went hunting with Cyson, it was parent teacher conferences this week. Kaine was in charge of morning chores, since Toni was going to town and he was not going to school. When Kaine got home he washed his and Kade’s steers and heifers. At FFA Nationals the Agronomy Team participated in their competition Wednesday.
On Thursday we found out how the Agronomy Team did, they were awarded the Silver Award and Kade earned his Bronze Award, good job!! Toni worked on Kade’s sim heifer while Kaine and Jaxsen worked on their steers. Then the three of them put some poles up in the alley. While they were doing that, one of the heifers that we just put a halter on last weekend got near Toni so we decided to see if the heifer was halter broke. The heifer actually did really well. Toni took a small video for Anna. Toni and I practiced loading Woody, for him to leave on Friday. Then we worked on the three we are halter breaking.
On Friday Kaine went to football practice then went to Kennewick to see Kendra. Anan got home early from school, her last class was canceled. Toni went to load out Woody, and her and the new family decided that Tuff was a better fit, so we still have Woody and Tuff headed to his new home. Which is good, because Toni kept telling Tuff she was going to keep him as a pet. Toni did chores early on Friday because they needed to go grab Kade at the airport around 8 pm. Kade had a great time at FFA Nationals and we are super proud of him. I stayed with grandma, who is still not sleeping.
On Saturday I took pictures of the bulls in the morning, the kids all worked on their cattle. Kaine went to Football practice around 10 since they had a game at 1. The game was really good. Then we did chores and worked on the foals. Toni headed up to Ritzville to speak at the CPoW meeting. Our good friend Josslynn is the current President, so we are excited to support her. Toni got to see lots of friends at the meeting and had a great time.
On Sunday Toni and I got up and hauled mares to winter pasture. We then got our four new halter breaking victims in to get them ready for the week- haltered and some initial socializing. The kids worked on their show animals. We had a kid from Toppenish come and pick up his two steers. He bought a Hereford and a Black bollie. At 11:45 we went to Connell for the family birthday party. From there dad, Kade and I headed to St John to get some items from Skip’s house. Then we went to Lautenschlagers to get Kade’s Nile Merit Heifer, he is getting a cute Red Angus heifer. Dad and Kade were hungry when we left there, so we stopped at Sonnys on our way through Washtucna and got chicken fingers and fries. Toni did chores at home. Her and Kaine put big bales out. She also went ahead and continued deworming mares and getting stuff done around the house. 2 horses came out of the yearling pen, Miss Gen and Remi and got to be mainstreamed. She also went and rode Electra at her house. Kade has been working on Pony for his next roping horse.
The days are getting colder and shorter. We try to see the positive pieces of fall as we move through the seasons. We get to meet some really cool people that are buying foals and see repeat customers. We also slow down on the cattle shows and get some time to focus on some of our projects here at home.
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