Monday was Veterans Day. Happy Veterans Day from our business to you. Today, we remember and honor all who have served or are actively serving. Thank you, veterans! We are lucky to have some very amazing people in our family that have had the distinction of protecting this Country, and we thank them as well as everyone else out there.
On Monday Kade, Kaine and I finished working the calves. Kade rode Jag around. Jag is a full sister to Electra that we call “Pony” because she is a small dynamo. She is sixish and probably 14.2 hands and broad. He is hoping to make her into a heal horse. We moved the pellets into the barn and then went and did chores. We worked on the three colts that are in, Cowy, Whitty and Stoker, all three were awesome. We have not had to use the donkeys in two weeks now. However, we have some big ones coming up that are definitely going to need the donkeys.
On Tuesday Toni loaded out Bee A Bug, and she headed to her new home. She loaded like a champ is what Toni said. Bee a Bug went to a repeat buyer which is always really fun for us. We love it when people love the foals so much they need more than one. Toni worked on the three colts again, then turned Stoker out. She walked out into the weaned foal pen and grabbed Colada out of the middle. Colada has been awesome to deal with and has taken almost everything in stride. Once Colada was caught, she had Dad come out and lead her around as Colada will be loaded out during the week while we are all gone. Colada got put back in since she is headed to her new home soon. Jaxsen was home late due to basketball practice.
Wednesday we woke up to rain. Which is good, I mean, it does not feel good when you are halter breaking, but it is good for the pastures and farm ground around. The Tonis headed to a vacation for a few days Wednesday morning. Kaine got up early to go to school, he was going to an expo he forgot to tell us about. He did not know a lot about where he was going, but he was going with Mr Dansie, I guess that is good enough?? But then he did not end up going anyway.
Thursday Colada was supposed to leave about noon, but Dean showed up at 10:30. Mom decided, even though she had never done anything with Colada, that she would load her. She told Dad and Dean to stay out of her way and loaded Colada like the boss she is. Colada got to her new home without incident. Other than that, it was a typical day, chores, school, work, etc. I stayed with grandma Thursday night. She is still not sleeping.
On Friday Dad and Kaine with to Pomeroy to get the Spokane steers form John Dixon, they are both really nice steers. Ben and I did some cleanup work. Then Kaine, Marlo and I did chores. Anna and Lane got home Friday night. Marlo and I went to Othello and got Checos for dinner.
On Saturday Marlo, Lane, Anna, Kaine, Ben and I worked the cows, we got through them pretty fast considering we were shipping out two bulls and sold some meat as well. There were probably some good stories in the day, but I can’t think of any. The cows all look really good. No one died, so it was all-in-all a good day. Then we did chores.
On Sunday Sam and Erin brought Aubrey and Logan out to get their two clubby heifers, Phoebe and Monica. Then we got Steve’s fat steers in and weighed them and left them in for Steve. Anna and Lane left early since it was supposed to be snowing in Moscow. Marlo, Kaine and I did the horse chores, then Ben and Kaine did the cattle chores, like we had been doing all week. Marlo and I used the new dump trailer to feed a grass straw bale to the weaned pen. We also let Copper out in the big corral where she jumped, bucked, and kicked and showed us that even though she was seriously injured back in August, that she is a survivor. Again, on the Copper front, we could not have done it without a team like the team we have. Our vet team, our farrier team, our home team. Chad and Katie coming up with the plastic shoe for that injured leg has made a world of difference.
BIG ANNOUNCEMENT! It is time to once again vote for the annual calendar. The 2025 calendar will be full of wonderful pictures voted on by our FB friends. Here is the link for you to vote on your favorites- vote as many times as you would like. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/15Yr6CXMFT/ And I forgot to put the pictures below in the album on FB.
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