Bright and early on Monday Kade and Toni hauled Santana, Peaches and Joss to the vet for travel papers to go to CA. All three did great. Gina also went to get a blood test to see if she is pregnant, she did not do great. 5x NRCH champion DID not want to ride to the vet with two yearlings and a two year old. Peaches wasn’t in to go to the vet and was not on the agenda, but the buyers decided they thought they wanted her late Sunday. Luckily she was easy to get in and loaded really well. It was probably nice for Santana to have a buddy. Sheena did ask what color Joss is because everything is so covered in mud. The drive to the vet was really foggy and stressful so Toni and Kade stopped for breakfast sandwiches before they came home. This was the Featherlite we bought first real trip and it pulled really nice. It is nice to have a smaller trailer for smaller groups like this. Chad stopped by to trim Ghost and Jetter before they go to their new home after Christmas. Both did great. Poor Jetter looks like a mud ball since the round pen is so muddy. Toni stayed with grandma on Monday.
Happy Christmas Eve. I took dad in to get laser eye bright and early on Tuesday, we were back by noon. It rained all day pretty much, but we had a short window midafternoon, so we went out to the desert to get Christmas pics of the kids. The horses came running across the desert to get in the pictures. They did not want to be left out. Some were nosier than others. We also had a donkey request, so we caught May and she got a bow. Kade rode Benelli in the rain. We worked on the foals then went to Christmas Eve at grandmas. We have soup and do the white elephant gift exchange. It was pretty bland this year, not a lot of fighting over gifts. However, I did go to the bathroom and Anna had traded her uncle kicker my gift for one he had she wanted. NOT HERS, mine.
Merry Christmas. We had a couple new Christmas calves, including a set twins, Joseph and Mary dad said. We opened presents Erina and Terry came down, we had prime rib, mashed potatoes, rolls, pies, the whole works, after mom made us a big breakfast as well. We played a new game Anna got the night before, that she did not trade for whatever Kicker had. It is Old Vs Young, So Post 1980 born people ask pre 1980 born people questions and vice versa, but we did men vs women, so young and old on both teams. Except the old Skip did not play. Then we played another card game. We had a great and family filled Christmas.
On Thursday we had a few more calves, one of them being mom and Anna’s char x jersey cross heifer calved. Worked on the foals in the mud, since it is still raining. Hauled pellets, hay, corn cobs out, etc. Basically just tried to keep an eye on the livestock and suck up as much mud as possible with the tools we have on hand.
On Friday we had people come out from Montana to look at the three big fillies we have left- North, Peeps, and Kenna. She liked North the best so North gets to come in with the next group. Our new horse showed up, Ruby, and Fabby came home from the trainers. Sold a couple bulls. Had another new calf. Kaine is in bed sick, so we did not see him much. He tried to help with chores and fed some grain before he wore himself out. We had Marlo for chores on Friday. I stayed with grandma on Friday.
On Saturday the same people came back to look again, still North. We had interest in the other 2 as well, one of the other people are also from Montana. Had a few more calves. Kade rode Benelli out to check cows. We got some videos of Peeps for a gal in Montana. Kade jumped on Blueberry bareback with a halter, she did great. We took Jet and Santana for a walk about, they both did great. They look like mud balls from it being so muddy.
A few more calves on Sunday, we got them all tagged. We took Sanatana and Jet on their final walk abouts, well not Jet, but Santana is headed to sunny and not muddy, at least at his new house, CA. We got the jersey Goldy and her calf, Noel, in so Goldy could nurse another calf. We have a couple of bottle calves in. Fabby and Ruby went down to Mom’s house so she could call Ruby hers. We turned Blondie, Smarty, and Kenna out and got North, Astra, and Zelle in for this coming week. Astra and Zelle are Toni’s pets so she thinks they will be perfect. They all haltered pretty good so maybe. We also got Peaches in and haltered so the people from CA could see her on Monday. Then we went and had our annual dinner with our good friends and neighbors where we were served a Hungarian chicken dish that was excellent.
We had an excellent week full of love and laughter. Thankfulness for the gifts we have received, meaning our way of life and our freedoms. We got to spend another Christmas with Grandma in our lives and Skip. There is no blessing greater than our loved ones and we hope everyone had a family filled amazing Christmas with yours.
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