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No words of wisdom for this one. 

                It rained Monday, we had a nice day Sunday to dry out some of the mud, but no more. Toni checked cows and horses and then sorted out 9 poles out of the pile to put on the fence. She texted the boys after school they get to help her get poles and put them up. Jaxsen texted he had FFA practice, but it got canceled so he got to help. Lucky Lucky him. Toni and the boys put up 2 poles Monday night, in the section we already had two in, so we are down to 6 sections of poles to put up. Ben and Anna are still feeding the cows with the tractor due to the mud.

On Tuesday Jaxsen had a dentist appointment, so he got to skip some school. They also took the Pendelton upholstery fabric with them for Toni’s office couch that she is having reupholstered. Toni checked cows in the Am in the mud. She told Monica it was her day to calve, and Monica had a calf by the time Anna got home. Monica is one of our clubby cows. She has a cute black white-faced calf. Toni and the boys did another section of fence. Kaine and Kade both went to help work on friends’ pickups Tuesday night so they took off to go be boys.

On Wednesday dad and mom came to town and brought a coffee too me, they are the  best. Guess what, fog and rain on Wednesday, made checking difficult for Toni. She got pics of Charlotte the Charolais, Monica and her calf and 710 and her calf. She told the old cow in the calving pen it was her day, so she thinks she will calve on Wednesday. Kade had agronomy practice after school, but got home in time to help with the fence. The old cow in the heavy pen did not calve, so talking to the cows does not work to inspire them to get with it. We are making progress with the fence, but it isn’t fun.

                On Thursday when Toni checked there were a whole gang of calves out, and they were not concerned with her catching them up. They sauntered around. Toni and Kaine had to go and get poles for their fencing project and then put up a few more poles, but ran out of lag bolts.  Jaxsen is in charge of the lag bolts so should have probably mentioned they lag bolts were running low. Jaxsen had to have baby teeth pulled at the dentist to get ready for braces.  Kaine and Toni weren’t in a good mood after loading 8 more heavy poles and getting them up the hill. Dad had gone to a funeral in St. John so brought home some of Uncle Tommy’s genealogy boxes. It was mostly full of moldy gross stuff but we found one crown jewel. It was a story that Great Aunt Bess typed up in 1927 of a trip she took around the Pacific Northwest with some friends. The story is 11 pages long and super well written and informative. It was also super interesting that on the trip they went and visited the Mastersons in Cle Elum which have been friends on our Mom’s side of the family for generations. So part of life in ag of how we are all related somehow continues. Very interesting and entertaining.

On Friday I worked on the corn field fence until around 11:30, then mom and I went to Cowpath in Othello for lunch. It was really good, we had potato soup, carrot cake and brought donuts back for everyone. Toni went into Connell and had lunch with Evy and Evy’s mom Holly, so she did not go with us. After dropping mom off I finished most of the corn field fence, then went down and we put up more poles. We are getting really close to being done! The CX Ranch cattle sale was Friday in Lewiston. Our agents, Dad and Uncle Joe, went on our behalf. We had a couple of head picked out but Uncle Joe said we were going to love one of the heifers. Toni told him he had authority to make it happen, so we got a new Hereford heifer on Friday. We didn’t see her or any pictures, but we trust Uncle Joe and of course Bill and Kayla. CX Ranch has good quality cattle so we weren’t concerned, but were very excited.

Saturday morning Anna, Ben and I finished the last few things on the fence and then turned the cows out. They were happy. Kade had trap shooting and went to Colton. Terry went up to watch him shoot and brought snacks. After lunch Toni and I got 7 more poles ready to put up and bid on some mares in the Moses Lake sale. We did not get any. We also got grass straw out to all the pens that needed it. We got the poles set out and did chores then went to Tel’s 1st birthday.  We were very excited to finally meet Tel. He lives in Wyoming.

On Sunday Jeanie brought a couple of horses out for Kade to ride and get pics of. He is selling one for her. She is a nice grade black mare that will be 8 this summer. She has been broke to ride, used in the mountains to move cattle, and used in general ranch work. She hadn’t been ridden since last November but saddled up great and rode right out. She is a very kind, nice mare. She will be on our for sale page very soon. Anna got Baby Cow into the heavy pen. We got our 2 little girls, Robin and Celeste, weaned and in the round pen. So we are DONE weaning the 2023 foal crop. Toni, Kaine, Kade and I finished the fence, then we all went to the BB Cattle Co Sale dinner.  It was a huge relief to get the fence done. We needed that side finalized for a couple of reasons- 1) so we have a good, heavy, nice safe fence on the side that will be closest to other studs so we can turn a stallion out in that pasture; and 2) a good fence because we plan to plant the alley between the pens with native grasses. We already have 2 little trees growing on the hillside.

One project down. 14,345 to go. On fencing projects we only have a couple that have to be done asap. We start the next one next week. It won’t be as strenuous we all hope. We won’t be pulling heavy poles up a hill, so it already sounds better. 

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Since I did not post on the blog on Fair Week, this one is two weeks old. But Big News.

Monday was a BIG DAY. Blue FINALLY foaled. Blue is 24, and I was feeling like mom thought we were telling her a tall tale that Blue was pregnant. Robins Reflection is a beautiful bay roan (we are under discussion on her color, Toni says she cannot be bay, she has to be brown because King is a/a and Blue is A/A so the baby is clearly a/A) filly. I went to Grand Coulee Dam on Monday for a meeting in the morning and then we went to the Keys Pumping Plant in the afternoon for a tour. Cousin Kendel was on the tour with her husband Toby, who works with me. Beside it being 104 degrees in Grand Coulee, the tour was pretty awesome when you accepted the sweat rolling down you back and in a hard hat. I had a discussion with a bald man if it is better to have hair or not to have hair. He says the hair is better because it keeps the swear from rolling into your eyes. I got back after chores had been done, but mom had made a peach pie and it was to die for. It was still warm when I got there. Toni had a big hearing on Monday. Ben got home late from work and then was out fixing circles. Dad was harvesting wheat on Monday.

Tuesday mom went and stayed with Grandma. Toni went to Tri Cities for a dentist appt and had lunch with Shannon and then a massage. Her and the kids did chores. The colts had a pole down so Toni hammered back up with a rock she found on the ground so she didn’t have to go back to the house for a hammer. We need to put a lag bolt in that pole because they get it down quite a bit. It originally had a lag, but the colts broke it off and we didn’t have a lag with us when we put it back up. So it gets hammered back up a bunch but at some point it needs a fix not a bandaid. I had dinner at a Day with a Farmer Tour. It was pretty good.

On Wednesday Toni had a trial, the boys had football practice until noon. Then the kids started to pack and get ready for the fair. We were back up in the triple digits that week, so it was hot. I was on a farm bureau tour, I got to see some pretty cool things on Wednesday, including the new carousal in the Vandermeulen Dairy that fits 150 cows. It was pretty cool. I got to talk to a lot of people as well. We did chores, Toni told me I had to sell Gucci if someone offered enough money and she told dad he had to sell Robins Reflection (Gucci sister). Then we went out to do chores.

Thursday Toni had court again, in Tri Cities. Boys had football practice. Dad got done harvesting at Thompsons. Joss and Macy came out and Anna was showing Macy how to clip. They took Baby Girl, a fall part clubby heifer that Anna has been halter breaking, back with them for a clinic. Toni stayed with grandma Thursday night. She did the front chores and I did the back chores, the kids did the rest of the chores. Men fixed circles, like normal, it is a never-ending battle.

   Friday more of the same, football practice in the morning, pack up the trailer to go, etc. I was at work and got Costco. We parked the trailers at the fairgrounds Friday night. Anna wanted to practice showing the fair cattle so Toni went down and the kids did some practice rounds in the heat. The steers going to BF fair are all pretty good. They have been to lots of jackpots and traveled. Kade finally got to ride Electra. Toni has been making him just work her on the ground to get her back into the riding frame of mind. She hasn’t been ridden in about a year. She did ok. She acted like a horse that has a great foundation, has some spunk, and hasn’t been ridden in awhile. We hope it won’t take much to get her going. Friday afternoon Toni, Anna, and Marlo went over to help our good friend Shelly with her friend Miguel and his goat. I bet no one reading this would have guessed that Toni could be convinced to help someone with a goat but she was. Mostly it was Anna and Marlo that clipped the goat and showed Miguel how to work on and show the goat. The goat is going to Othello Fair. Miguel is a great kid, so everyone was happy to help him.

Saturday was set up day at the fair. The boys had football practice and then Kelten brought them to set up. We were basically done by the time they got here. All the kids seemed really happy to see each other, in the pre-fair way of things. After a straight six days with each other during the fair, they aren’t so chipper. Set up took all morning then Toni met with clients until chores. She also missed a sale she had been meaning to bid at so she was not happy. But we went out and played with the foals after chores so that put her in a better mood. We got some new video of Star. Per the norm we didn’t take a halter out there so when she wouldn’t walk or move for the video Toni caught her with a string and drug her around. We got some fun new pictures of the foals.

Sunday was the calm before the storm. We finished packing before the fair. Kade took Electra for a ride out and about. She is very solid about outside things. Kade, in a teenage boy way, rode her between the trailers with his dog underneath, rode her next to the stud running the fence, rode her next to the road with the cars, nothing seemed to really bother her except for the fact that she was being ridden. The general consensus in getting ready for the fair is that we are overwhelming unenthusiastic about it.

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KT Judge Dat Apache, “Judge”


KT Judge Dat Apache, “Judge”

Colt
Sire: Judge Dat Cash (PD)
Dam: RH Apache Butterfly
Date Born: 4/24/22
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Color: Gray
Price: $7,500
KT Judge Dat Apache is a showy gray colt with a pedigree bred to perform. His dam, Butterfly, is by Apache Blue Boy and out of RR Sonoita Melissa. Apache Blue Boy has 1,119.5 AQHA performance points, Superior Heading, Superior Heeling, Superior Tiedown Roping, 2007 AQHA World – Res Champ Sr Heading, 3rd Sr Heeling, 5th Am Heading, 9th Am Heeling, 9th Sr Tie-Down Roping, 2008 World Champion Amateur Heading Horse, 2011 Res. World Champ. Amateur Dally Team Roping Heading, 2011 World Champ. Amateure Dally Team Roping Heeling, He is by Blue Boy Doc, NCHA money earner ($405.93) and producer of NCHA & NRHA winners. This colt’s sire, Judge Dat Cash, “PD,” is by Judge Cash, AQHA Race SI-110/AAAT/ROM/Superior, (SW) 34-12-10-3, $115,936. Won: Pocatello Downs Spring Derby, Boise 440 Championship, Leon Dafoe Memorial S. 2nd: Boise Futurity[G3] 3rd: All American Gold Cup(G1), RACE & BARREL HORSE SIRE, NFR qualifiers, Barrel Futurity and 1D winners. Sire of Race Money Earners of $1,223,619. PD’s dam is by First Smart Money: AQHA Race SI-105/AAAT/ROM, (SP)17-3-4-4, $32,613, 3rd: New Mexico Juvenile Challenge-G3, Los Alamitos Stakes. SIRE RECORD: Sire of 218 foals of racing age, 110 starters, 68 ROM, as of 05/13/2014. Chief Earner: Capones Vault SI-107, Earned $503,501. 3/4 Brother to Holland Ease.
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KT King of the City, “2”

KT King of the City, “2”
Colt
Sire: KT Jackpot City
Dam: KT Copper Isabelle 
Date Born: 4/12/22
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Color: Palomino
Price: $5,000
Phenomenal colt out of Izzy and by Jackpot. Izzy is out of Captains Double Coy and by KT Copper Queen Cleo. Izzy is our first 4th generation mare. We were able to show her prior to her being injured, then we use her on the ranch for a few years before adding her to our brood mare band. She is a really nice mare that we love, she is one of our favorites. She is really cowy and goes after the cows and dogs. We love her foals, they are very smart and trainable as well as having great confirmations. She is 83% NFQHA and her pedigree includes Sizzlin Hot, Major Bonanza, Ed Echols, Coys Bonanza, Major King and more. KT Jackpot City is out of Lenas Abbie N Charge and is by City Smarts. “Abbie” is a daughter of Smart Like Lena with Mr. Charge Bar on the bottom side. Smart Like Lena is a son of Smart Little Lena and has lifetime earnings of over $89,000.00 a ROM in cutting, and has sired offspring earning over $100,000 in NCHA money. Mr. Charge Bar was an NCHA money earner, had 33 AQHA performance points, 11 halter points, and an SI of 75. City Smarts is by An Educated Guess, 385 reining points, and the highest point earning son of Smart Chic Olena. City has a full brother that is a reiner and priced at $13,000. This is a pretty moving colt with tons of ability and a performance deluxe pedigree

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KT Willie War Doc

KT Willie War Doc
Colt
Sire: Doll Docsan, “Leroy”
Dam: KT Copper Doc Lona
Date Born: 3/23/22
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Color: Palomino
Price: $5,000
Here is another phenomenal colt out of Lona by Leroy. Lona is out of Docs Sizzle Bar and Copper War Chic, “Chicken”. Chicken was a great cow horse and show horse that we had for many years. We did not start breeding Chicken until she was in her 20s, so we only got three foals out of her, one filly and two colts. We broke Lona to ride and have used her as a broodmare. Lona’s grandsire was Willie War Chic, ROM Race ~ SI 95. Loan’s breeding also includes, Sizzlin Hot, Docs Dee Bar, Ed Echols and more. Leroy is a stallion with a performance packed pedigree along with a very good disposition. He was a very smooth ride with tremendous talent, beautiful movement and huge stop. He was quiet and trainable which he passes along to his foals; he consistently produces fantastic foals with looks, color, conformation and brains. Leroy was unshown due to a wire cut injury that took a long time to heal; it happened just before hitting the showpen as a 3 year old and as a result he was turned out to the studpen. Leroy has produced 1 foal that has NRHA earnings. He also has a 3 year old competing in Western Dressage, was 3rd in Canada in July 2016 and has racked up more 1st place finishes since then. He is sired by Dolls Union Jac- ROM, NRHA earnings, and sired foals that have earnings in excess of $310,000.00 in NRHA, as well as earnings in NRCHA, Buckskin Assoc., and the AQHA world show. Leroy’s dam is Docsan Jeany who has produced foals with earnings in excess of $3700.00 and AQHA point earners. Leroy is also double registered with NFQHA at 92%.

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Last Week in Pictures

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Last Week in Pictures

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The general consensus is that the bull jumped the fence on that one. 

Monday was Memorial Day. A special day to remember all our brave soldiers who made the ultimate sacrifice to defend our country from its enemies. On Sunday Mom, Dad, Jaxsen, Skip, Erina and Terry went and put flowers on graves and remembered everyone. They went up to St. John then back. They took Skip out to lunch at St. John and saw some friends at the bar/cafe.

On Monday Mom and I went down to see Grandma. Kaine was going to go with us but mom said we would be there around 3 hours and she did not know if he wanted to go. So he jumped out the door and ran back to the house, I did not even have it in park yet. So he stayed to help Ben and Anna sort cows and switch the heifers and bulls, and switch pastures. It was a Monday for Toni so she was working getting ready for a trial on Tuesday. The older kids all worked on their animals after sorting cows. When Mom and I got home in the afternoon I went down and got King’s pen and fixed the fence. Toni took Gracie for a ride and ponied the yearling filly Holly along. They both did great.

On Tuesday Anna went to Pullman after school for Meats judging. Toni had a trial in the afternoon. Eddy foaled and had a bay/brown roan colt.  Jaxsen rode the bus home and Kaine and Kade started football practice. They have a few weeks-long spring season. Kade saddled up Stormy while they did chores and worked on her when they got done for a few minutes. Kaine and Kade did their chores and Annas when they got home. And Jaxsen helped dad move water. We had some people show up to look at Dude to breed their mare, but they wanted us to hand breed and we do not have time for that, so we sent them to Holly to bred to Whitty. Tuesday night we got a bunch of mares in and moved around for Allie to come ultrasound on Wednesday. We had mares all over.

On Wednesday Anna texted that they got 4th in Meats at state. Great job. Lendy had a bay colt, which really matched the one out of Eddy, but Lendy’s is out of King and Eddy’s is out of Sagebug. Last year they had matchy-matchy foals too. Kind of funny. The boys had football practice, dad picked them up again. Allie brought Reba home and ultrasounded some mares. We wanted to ultrasound the ones that had been with Leroy, to see if they were bred or we needed to put them with a different stud. Leroy got all of his mares bred except one. We will have one more Leroy foal for this year, Crystals. As of right now we are keeping Cammy’s colt to replace Leroy, we will see what happens. I wanted to call him Jac and Toni wanted to call him Chexy, his name is Chex this Jac, and Allie’s daughter came up with a good solution, Jexy.  We also had an extra mare, Charlie, who somehow came home Tuesday night, so she also got ultrasounded. We ended up ultrasounding 12 mares, 10 of which were bred. So that is pretty good. It was a long day. After Allie left we went and got the trailer hooked up for Thursday.

                On Thursday dad and Toni went and picked Cappy up from Jordans and took Debbie’s gelding. Jordan did an amazing job, Cappy is doing so great. We are talking about having him shown. Toni said she should have taken her boots and jumped on him. Toni also got a few pics of John Grays’ gelding there by Leroy and out of Lona and of Jordan’s mare he has for sale. Cappy has immense talent and a good mind, so really a good combo. We got him home and put Sally in with him. Sally is HZ roan, and a buckskin so we could get a cool foal out of the cross. Kendel brought a little 4 year old girl down to pet horses and to sit on Libby the cow. Libby doesn’t mind small children sitting on her, but she boycotts big kids. The little girl, Nova, got to pet quite a few horses.

Friday was an interesting day. Toni went to Kennewick to see grandma. I started out with flat tires on my poor beat up Colorado. The air chuck was in Ben’s work pickup. I went and got dads and aired up my tires. Then I needed gas. We had someone coming out to look at the black Herefords. I got stuck getting them in. No one was around. The dogs and I get the cows in on foot. No, no horses around me, they had gotten out into the big pasture and would not be lured over to me so I could catch one. Get to the house, get in Anna’s work pickup, get a flat tire in it. So I finished the cows on the lawn mower. Later that day after Toni pulled me out I got the horses in. Willy came out with his son and they looked at the heifers and said they would let us know, I thought that meant it would be a bit, so I turned them out. He texted later the next day he wanted to get them. We also need a horse for Willy’s son, something sane, sound, broke, and not super expensive if anyone knows of anything. Willy’s son wants to rope and his horse coliced and died. We did chores then Kade and Toni rode out and about getting Stormy used to stuff. They both rode with a halter, so that was interesting when Kade’s horse spooked, but he got her slowed up after a bit. Stormy really did great. Most young horses will spook of a weird dog bounding through tall grass.

Saturday Anna helped McKenna at the farmers market with strawberries. Kade had a football game then went to his gf’s house for a party. So Ben, Kaine and I went and picked up grass hay that Dan Schneider gave to the kids for their projects.  Anna brought home strawberries for us, they were great. Kaine, Toni and I did chores.

Sunday we got the cows in again and sorted out the sold ones for George to preg check. Anna and I were going to ride chasing them back down, bareback since we just needed to push them back. Anna ended up riding my horse, and I drove. Anna, Kaine and Kade washed their steers and heifers. Kaine and Kade also went down to the lake and went and brought the paddle boat back in. Toni and I moved Lendy and Eddie out with Sagebug. Hauled the Hereford cows down to be with the Angus bull. Ben fixed the fencer that was shorting out and then moved hay around. He is also cooking for our trip to Angus Preview in Filer in a few weeks.  Toni and Kade rode again, but had bridles on this time. The big event was Kicker in his Razor, but Stormy handled it well. We have a couple of really pretty flower seed fields around the house, so I asked the owner if we could take pictures of Anna in them, he said yes. So we went and took some pictures of Anna in a couple of the fields. The pictures turned out very pretty.

Down to 2 mares left to foal. Of course, we are excited for the last 2- Crystal bred to Leroy and Blue bred to King. 2 good old mares that could have some pretty exciting foals. We are finally done calving. Kaine’s “show heifer” had a bw faced heifer. As she was supposed to be bred to an Angus heifer bull, the general consensus is that the bull jumped the fence on that one. 

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