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Group 2 Halter Breaking was great, Evergreen Sale was a Success and we had fun and still have Friday Night Lights.

Posted on October 20, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch

Monday was still a nice day, however, the weather man says it was supposed to get cold and raining. But it is October, so to be expected. Anna and Kade had rangeland management practice after school, Kaine and Jaxsen had football practice. Kaine was one of the players of the week, good job buddy. Toni and I started working on group 2, Smokin in clearly the easiest. Tulip lead Saul, Toni worked on Smokin and I worked on Runner.  Runner is our first foal out of Running Sparkles and wow, he is amazing. These three colts go to the same family and we are really excited about this group.

            Kade and Anna had a rangeland management competition on Tuesday, however, Anna was not feeling well so did not go. Kade did AWESOME. 6th overall individual, their team got 5th and made it to nationals. Jaxsen had a football game in Mattawa and they won 19 to 6. Jaxsen played an awesome game. Tulip and I worked on the foals and Kaine helped me when he got done with chores. Having Kaine come help with the foals is always an experience. The foals are not used to teenage boys with lots of hair.

                On Wednesday Toni and mom went to see grandma in the morning and I went and had dinner with her. Toni worked on the foals. Ben and Anna packed up to go to the Evergreen Sale.  Toni went and got Basil and Rosie so Tulip had help with the foals. All three donkeys led foals Wednesday night.  These three foals are just really big so we needed the extra help. Rosie is the newest donkey that we got from Samee and Pete and she is the toughest of the lot. Probably the youngest. She is also the hardest to deal with, but she isn’t a man killer. You do want to watch her back feet. Once she is hooked she is a rock. Those foals don’t get the best of her. Basil and Tulip and more like semi-retired, because that is what they want. Tulip especially wants to be a pet. We are careful to really treat her the way she chooses to be treated.

On Thursday after the board meeting Marlo, Anna and I headed to Ellensburg for the Evergreen Exclusive Sale. We got there and got set up and head dinner with cousins Bobbette and Ryan. Toni had court and was going over the overpass at Othello while we went under it. Toni and Kade worked on the colts and practiced loading them. They all did great. We like to load them three times each, and since these three are going together we wanted them to load together and understand how to interact.  Mom and dad went to Kaine’s game in Mattawa. Connell played awesome. Kaine is really enjoying football and playing varsity.

On Friday Anna, Marlo and I were in Ellensburg, we had an exhibitor meeting, we washed the steers and heifers, went to lunch with Lyyskis, and had a great time. That night was the banquet, Anna spoke as the president and did the Willard Wolf memorial scholarship.  Toni had court early in Pasco and had an awesome hearing with a major win. Toni practiced loading the colts some more.  She was loading them individually on Friday to make sure the colts would load on their own. She was on her own so the loading exercise took a few hours. Boys did chores.

On Saturday morning Anna, Marlo and I had breakfast with Lyyskis, after washing and feeding the heifers and steers, then we went back to the rodeo grounds to get set up. Toni and Dad came up to Ellenburg, Toni was in charge of the judging classes and was excited about that. She rounded up 4 classes and a bunch of kids. She then had to judge the cards. It was exciting to see how all the kids did. Anna didn’t get any of the winner money, but was right off the winners. Then we visited and showed the heifer and steers and had the sale. The Sale was great. Thank you Aram for buying Gogo and Ruth and Gary for buying 303. The sale was great, thank you to everyone that came and bid on the heifer and steers. We hauled 9 head back, we bought a steer and heifer (steer for Jaxsen and heifer for Anna) and then hauled 7 back for other people. Toni met with a client on the way home. Kade went hunting Saturday with uncle Tata. Kaine went to Middletons and hung out with friends. Ben did ranch work and got ready for the Nile. When Anna, Marlo and I got back, we had one person there to pick up his two heifers and then one person showed up shortly after to get her heifer.  Kaine and Kade had done chores, and Kaine helped Marlo and I work on the colts. Wow, Saturday was just flat busy.

Sunday morning Brad showed up bright and early to get his two steers. Then we loaded out the three colts to their new home, and took their grandkids out to pet Baby Blackie, Celest and Halo. Next Toni and I got in the mares and moved ones from circle 5 home and ones from home to circle 5. Weaned all of the sold foals and most of the big ones. We only left 2 colts in circle 5 but 27 head of mares.  Kaine went hunting with Keegan. Kade, Jaxsen and Anna worked on their heifers and steers and Anna and McCall packed up to go.  We got three more foals in to work on for the week. Capone, Mercedes, and Bailey. Two foals by Gunner and one by Sagebug. They are all super super big. They haltered really well and we are ready to work on them for the week.

We are excited that Basin Feed and Supply brought treat bags with coupons inside for us to give to people picking up foals. Thank you Maria for bringing those! It is really fun to have Basin Feed and Supply help us with our care packages for our buyers.

Thank you to everyone that supported Anna with her first reg Angus consignment sale. She put in a ton of work to get those calves ready and had a great sale. We are very proud of her accomplishment and appreciate all of the support she received from everyone.

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on October 17, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch
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KT Fancy Like

Posted on October 13, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch

KT Fancy Like
Filly
Sire:KT HotTimein Cowtown, “Tank”
Dam:  KT Fancy Dualler
Date Born: 3/24/23
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Color: Chestnut with chrome
Price: $4,500
Talk about Eye-catching, this filly is chestnut with chrome. His sire, Tank, is by KR Gun Powder, who stands at Heritage Ranch Stallion Station, Tank is out of KT Cow Cuttin Hottie. KR Gun Powder is by Colonels Smoking Gun and out of A Bueno Poco Dunit. KR Gun Powder is the 2016 APHA Senior Reining World Champion. In only 9 shows, Gun Powder has been titled as the 2016 APHA Senior Reining World Champion and has amassed nearly $13,000 in NRHA earnings. Hottie is by Cow Cuttin Colonel who is a major contender in the cow horse industry. A few of his accomplishments include: NRCHA Superior Cow horse, AQHA Open and Amateur Performance ROM, 2008 Paul Dice Memorial Non Pro Bridle Champion, 2007 WSQHA Amateur Hi Point Working Horse Champion, 2005 AQHA Amateur Performance ROM, 2005 IRCHA Non Pro Derby Reserve Champion, and more. KT A Fancy Dualler was ranch ridden in SE Idaho before becoming a broodmare. She is a great little mare with a lot of stamina and despite her small size and go all day long. She is very catty and fun to ride. She is by Just Plain Starlight, a son of Tamalight and out of Wright on Sugarnic, winner of the Cascade Cutter’s Futurity. Her dam is Tessas Poco Penny, who is a dun daughter of The Dualler out of a Sonnys OO Buck, Docs Adonis, Poco Bueno bred mare.

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on October 10, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch
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KT Double the Jackpot

Posted on October 9, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch

KT Double the Jackpot
Colt
Sire: KT Jackpot City
Dam:  KT EllyDoubleMelody, “Elly”
Date Born: 3/26/23
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Color: Dunalino w/ spot and 4 socks
Price: $4,500
KT Double the Jackpot is a cute colt out of KT EllyDoubleMelody, “Elly” and by KT Jackpot City. Elly is a cute mare by Captains Double Coy and is out of Sonitas Melody. Ellie was used as a trail horse and has been to lots of clinics and ridden by children. She is a very sweet mare that loves attention and looks a lot like Double. KT Jackpot City is out of Lenas Abbie N Charge and is by City Smarts. He is a fancy dun stallion that had some cutting training and was very cowy and agile. He has a lot of natural ability. His dam 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. Many people think of Mr. Charge Bar, on Abbie’s bottom side, as a racehorse, which he was, but he also 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.

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Lots of fun stuff going on at KT Ranch! We have officially entered into the birthday season.

Posted on October 5, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch

                It was a wet and cold Monday. We needed to get some videos on King 2, so we did that after moving water. The foals were all still pretty mad at us for weaning them. We are up to 4 in the weaning pen. Mom made peach cobbler for Kade’s birthday week of desserts. Dad took Kade into Drivers Ed and then Toni picked him up and let him drive home. Kade is a good “beginner” driver. Since Kade is no longer playing football him and Anna have been getting the chores done early. Since Ben was home REALLY late, I am sure Anna was happy to have Kade there helping. Kade still has a hurt shoulder, but he can drive and help to the best of his ability.  Kaine and Jaxsen had football practice.

                On Tuesday Kade and Anna had rangeland management practice for FFA after school. They have a competition on Wednesday NW of Ephrata. Anna thinks it is at Lance Hale’s place, he buys bulls from us, so she is going to look for her bull. Since the last one he bought was hers. Toni sold Red and Nugget on Tuesday, Mr Dansie’s brother came out to look at Red and he brought cousin in law Jake’s cousin in law Trevor out. It was one of those small world moments when you figure out the guy coming to look at your horse is your cousin-in-law’s cousin-in-law. So Toni showed Trevor Nugget. Toni hadn’t ridden Nugget since Nugget was 2 or 3, but Nugget is always great, so it wasn’t a big deal. Both Toni and Trevor jumped on him bareback with a random bridle Toni had in her pick-up. That was enough to show Trevor how well broke Nugget is, so he bought Nugget.  Nugget was originally trained by our mutual cousin in law Jake. So Trevor in kind of related. Jaxsen had a football game at 4 on Tuesday. He did great. He even got to carry the ball.

On Wednesday Anna and Kade went to NW of Ephrata for rangeland management judging. FYI, the national competition is going to be held in Lind, WA. I am curious to see where all these teams are going to stay, and eat for that matter. Connell FFA placed 3rd overall, really well for the first time they have competed in it. Hank came out to bangs vaccinate heifers on Wednesday, it was me, Toni, Marlo and the dogs. We were crazy efficient and good. It was a little blustery out but that is better than being too hot. It also gave us a good look at the heifer calves. We are still debating what to keep and what to sell, but some of those heifers placed themselves on the sale list. We love a volunteer. A few others put themselves on the love love love list. We have one heifer we think so highly of we are talking about getting some embryos out of her dam. We probably won’t but we will talk it to death.

Thursday was dad’s birthday, Happy Birthday dad. We had a couple of ladies out in the afternoon to look at the foals Toni took them on the big tour. All three of them had to cross the swamp in Circle 5 and didn’t make it across unscathed. So wet socks and shoes, a good laugh, and good sports. The foals all look good and big. Healthy foals are always a good sight. Kids went to school, did chores, Kade rode his horses, Anna worked on her Nile and Evergreen animals, Jaxsen and Kaine had football practice.

On Friday Chad came out, so Toni caught horses in-between court sessions, mom helped and chad trimmed. They are a real team. When Toni got done she went down and her and Chad did some of the harder ones. Mom will hold, but nothing that isn’t good. It was also still a big chilly so Mom and Chad were on a cookie break when Toni got there. After the trimming was done we did chores. We talked about all of the horse moving around we need to do to really start weaning. A hauler showed up with our show steers that we bought in S. Dakota. We had 7 show steers delivered. We had some friends ask us to buy them some so we had all the steers delivered to my house. We were really excited to see the quality of calves that came off the trailer. You always watch the videos and see the pictures, but until you see them for real you don’t know for sure. To say we were pleased would be an understatement. We got some really good ones. We may have screwed our kids over when the other kids get these good steers.  Kaine had a football game so I brought home sandwiches. Dad, mom, Kade, Jaxsen and I all went to the game. Toni had work to do so she stayed home, also, I think she is very opposed to paying to go and watch the kids play football.

                On Saturday we had our first fall calf, 137 had a heifer. Maki came and got her mare that has been with Sagebug. We worked on the fence on the bottom of circle 8. We haltered and worked the show steers that came. We got pictures of Anna’s two steers in the evergreen sale. I went and stayed with grandma Saturday night. Toni, Kaine and Kade did horse chores, they did them a little early so Kaine could go with Maxx to the Middleton Pumpkin patch to ask Kendra to Hoco. Also, we haltered the weaned foals. Kade practiced roping on Gen. It was Gen’s first time having a rope thrown off of him and he was amazing. Kade roped the Tuf Kaf with him and Gen acted like a seasoned rope horse. He is a pretty fun horse. Anna and McCall worked on Nile cattle and Evergreen cattle.  It was a really productive day. The Lewiston Horse Sale was Saturday but Toni didn’t get anything bought. Mom made us all pie- chocolate and banana crème. Mom’s banana crème pie is the best.

Another busy day Sunday. Moved the horses around at Mom and Dad’s.  We put Tank into the corral, so he no longer has any lady friends. Then we moved Dude into a pen as well, also no friends. We then took the Dude mares and put them out in the big pasture, moved the old mares from Tank’s pen into the front pasture, then the yearling fillies into Tank’s old pen. It took a little time, but everything went smoothly except Dad telling Toni how she was doing it wrong. If we have moved horses hundreds of times, then Dad has moved thousands and we never do it right. Toni, Ben, Kade, Kaine, and Jaxsen got all of the mares in from Circle 5 to the corral at my house. All of the people that had asked us to buy them steers came out and picked their steers. Everyone seemed pleased. Then we got the mares into the alley and sorted out the ones we needed to wean and some extras. Some of the foals are big enough we need to get them weaned.  We hauled those pairs down to Mom and Dad’s, weaned those foals, and took Tulip down. We had birthday lunch for Kade and dad. Uncle Skip came. It was a fun lunch break between the work. For chores we also hooked up 2 of the haltered foals to Tulip. Tulip was not impressed to be back to work. You have to be careful because she will drag the foal over to you and try to highline a person with the foal. That donkey is smart and devious. Toni and I led the other 2 foals. These foals are pretty good so far. FYI on the picture of dad and Kade, NOTHING annoys me worse then bunny ears ruining a good picture. WHY does dad (and Skip and now the boys) have to RUIN pictures ALL THE TIME. Yes, lots of CAPS. VERY ANNOYING.

Lots of fun stuff going on at KT Ranch! We have officially entered into the birthday season. For some reason most of our family has fall/winter birthdays. Toni is sending out texts on things she wants for her birthday- usually expensive horses, heifers, a stallion- whatever she has found that she wants at the moment.  Just a reminder that we wean sold foals first, so if you are on the market for a foal and waiting for us to wean it, give us a call otherwise it won’t be weaned until last.

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Last Week in Pictures

Posted on October 3, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch
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KT FoReal Sage Shines

Posted on June 24, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch

KT FoReal Sage Shines
Colt
Sire: KT Gunners Sage Bug
Dam:  KT Major Sunshine
Date Born: 3/15/23
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Color: Dun Roan
Price: $5,000
Foreal is a big fancy red dun colt out of KT Major Sunshine and by KT Gunners Sage Bug. Shiney is a fancy palomino mare out of Kathys Sonny Dee to, a Sonny Dee Bar Too mare, and by Zinks Major Kid. Anna picked Shiny to keep when she was just a toddler, since we still had her we must have wanted to keep her too. Shiny was featured on the cover of the AQHA Journal. We have shown her in-hand trail at the NFQHA show in Ellensburg. This is a great mare that the kids all love, she has a great disposition. KT Gunners Sage Bug is out of Continental Lady Bug and is by KT Gunpowder N Lead. Gunner is a roan dunskin son of Cue Bars Laddie, AQHA point earning and producing stallion. Gunner’s dam, Pistol, has been shown NFQHA, has been featured on rule book and in the NFQHA magazine. She is a great working ranch horse, rope horse, and the kids can ride her as well. Pistol’s sire, Gold Country Charro is a dunskin stallion that was shown in 1998 and 1999 in halter at local shows. Lady Bug is a big boned Continental Cad daughter going back to Mr Blackburn on the bottom. This is a colt that is already showing a lot of personality and is very sweet. He is very curious about what everyone else is doing and always has his nose in everting.

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It is never a matter of if, but a matter of when something will go wrong.

Posted on June 1, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch

Monday we were all lagging from the long show weekend and the excessive heat for May. Added to all of the other normal stress. Callie Welding showed up first thing to get the main line welded. It looked really good. We were thankful they could fit us in. Having a break in the mainline is a pretty big deal when it is hot out and we need to irrigate. The kids washed their heifers and turned Emma Frost out, she had her last show, which she tried to kick McCall and the judge on Sunday, so I think she was done. However, she did great for Savannah in the PeeWee class. I think she felt like the judge and McCall were asking too much of her. She also did really well for Jax, and again, Division Champion, so Jax was really happy. Toni and I went down and put a new/different circle gate up in Tank’s pen, since they are walking out the circle gate.

Tuesday dad delivered a bull to Athena. He said he it was a little tight turning around but he is an expert driver. We also had an FFA Banquet after school. Ben cooked the tri tip, Toni, Kaine and Jaxsen did horse chores, Anna and Kade stayed to help set up for the banquet. Toni got to meet Kade’s girlfriend’s parents. The kids are all growing up. Kaine, Jaxsen and Kicker stayed home and did chores, the rest of us went in. Anna is the president so resided over the meeting. Kaine (who was not present), Kade and Anna all got awards, and Anna was elected Vice President for next school year. Toni, Ben and I went home to finish up chores after and Anna and Kade stayed to clean up. Our FFA program is top notch with the number of kids that participate proof of that. We couldn’t be happier with the 3 ag teachers our kids have, they are the best. Also, Irrigation Specialist came out worked on the mainline.

On Wednesday dad’s friends came out and mom and dad took them around on a tour and to the Brunswick in Othello for lunch. Debbie texted and needed miniature horses at her house for her grandson’s birthday, so Anna and Kaine ran them over. Then Toni, Kaine and Kade went to the school for a football meeting. I went and worked on Tank’s pen again. Anna and Jaxsen did chores. Wednesday Dugx brought concrete out for the mainline, so that project just keeps moving forward. For some reason we have gotten really lucky and everyone that we have requested help from has been there for us.

On Thursday Toni met with our NRCS Rangeland specialist Angela to go over new fun projects. They really do think they are fun, like can we grow this type of grass without irrigation? Can we encourage bees? Butterflies? Birds? All kinds of projects. Then Toni and Mom got in a fight about whether I hate birds, all birds. I said I don’t hate them if they are away from me and not flying over my head. Toni thought I hated them less.  Then Toni went to court in her leopard print blazer that LeAnne and I picked out in Fort Worth. It looked good. The men fished up the mainline fixes, we had a group of good teams out of and work on it. Callie’s welding, Dugx, and Irrigation Specialist. Thank you everyone for getting out so fast. Dad got mom’s strawberry apparatus up and ratchet strapped to the ground. And guess what, we worked on Tank’s pen again.

On Friday I got groceries. Mom and Toni went down to see grandma. Marlo came out to do chores with us. Kaine stayed the night with his friend Maxx, so they could go fishing the next day with another friend, Cruz. Finch Ranch from Pullman came down and picked up their Angus bull and Ben ran Lar’s bull over the hill.  Friday night the water got put through the mainline- no holes! So we have water once again. Everyone is very happy. Mom made a comment about how great her sons-in-laws are and how she was thankful we didn’t marry worthless men. We are also thankful for that. Haha.

On Saturday Kade started trap shooting practice again. Kaine was with his friends (and he had asked Kade to do his chores for him). Anna worked on her steers, and Kade did when he got home, and Jaxsen helped Toni and I since he did not go down to work on his steer. I feel like he made a very bad choice.  Jaxsen’s level of help and our understanding of the children helping do not mesh. There may have been some words. Pete brought our third halter breaking donkey out, so now we have Rosie to join the crew. Rosie, Tulip and Basil. Yvonne Stampfly came out and got her bull. Dad and Steve (his friend) took a heifer to E-burg to meet a guy and picked up our tie bar for the Wilson trailer.  Then we moved stallions around, since Tank’s pen keeps getting out and we lost Leroy. We moved Dude to mom and dads, and Tank into Kings pen, King into Tanks pen, and Jackpot to Tonis house.  We did chores, then put big bales out. Right at the end of that project the storm came through and there was thunder all around, a bit of wind, but mostly it just went around us. All in all it was a LONG day but everyone was very productive.

On Sunday McKenzie came and picked up Honey Bug, who loaded like a pro. McKenzie had a ramp, Honey bug is a yearling filly, and she walked right up the ramp, looked around the trailer and was great. McKenzie said she was great when she got home too. We are so happy McKenzie was finally able to take her home. Honey Bug is going to be a mounted shooting horse, and we cannot wait to see her perform. Then Toni and I sorted mares out of Tank’s pen that we hope are bred. With the alley off of Tank’s pen, it is actually not terrible to sort out of that pen. We kicked a couple of mares out to the pasture and put Miss Gen in with Tank. Miss Gen is older and we really need to get her bred. Lorenzo, Donna and the girls came out to look at horses. They like a couple of them. We sold Coffee online. John and Maddie also came out to see babies. The kids worked on their heifers and steers. Kade and Kaine both rode their horses and Kade, per the norm, had catching issues with his. Since the corral is now open, he moved her down there. Kaine took his horse, Pow, home and Anna took Jojo home. We moved Crystal and Blue into the heavy pen. They aren’t particularly heavy, but we are down to 4 to foal and those are 2 of them. Having them all in the same pen makes life easier. The 2 other mares, Eddie and Lendy are heavy, very heavy.  Eddie is bred to Sagebug and Lendy is bred to King. We moved horses here, there, and everywhere. Debbie had called back and wanted 2 big horses for her grandson. He is in Strides (horse therapy) and is supposed to lead a big horse around, so I took Angel the TB and Benelli over for him to lead around with the minis.

It is never a matter of if, but a matter of when something will go wrong. Our thoughts and prayers go out to Manny Mulrony who was injured riding rough stock. Manny is a great kid with tons of talent. No matter what the future holds, we know he will do great things. Hoping for a full recovery for Manny.

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Lots going on, like normal.

Posted on May 25, 2023 by horseshoeangusranch

Sunday night Toni’s Idaho Shag Abby was missing and Monday morning she was in her dog house, and someone had shaved her. And not very well. The kids worked on clipping their steers and heifers for the upcoming show on Saturday. We had an email from someone traveling through that wanted a buckskin, they stopped and Toni showed them around. Their favorite was Bailley Bug, and they called back Tuesday morning to confirm they wanted him. Ben planted his last corn field for the year on Monday. After I got home we messed around with all of our foals. Minnie and Mouse are still in the dog run. Mouse is not a very friendly little girl considering how much time she had humans handling her. She is kind of ornery.

Tuesday Mom texted Toni in the morning one of the yearlings colts was out, which he was not out when I went by so he had not been out long. He must have been reaching grass under the fence, then he could not figure out how to get back in. And since he is a teenage boy he just could not figure it out. Toni helped him back in and fixed the fence. Then she went down to cut down trees bigger than her saw manual told her she should. Just to prove to the manual the chain saw can cut down bigger trees than they think. Tuesday Toni and I hauled Irish and Gracie back other to Holly’s to breed to Witty again. The kids worked on clipping their animals for the upcoming show after school.  We put up flags in the circle track crossing to try to keep Tank from walking through them. There are wire gates, but he just walks on through. Jordan Pace did a great job desensitizing Tank to things, maybe too good? We also caught The Judge and measured him. As a yearling he stands 14 hands, so not small.

On Wednesday Anna helped with some FFA functions after school, so dad went and picked up the boys. Aram brought his steer over after school to get clipped and Kade and Anna helped him. Kaine dyed his heifers. Jaxsen was there, I am not 100% sure what he was doing. Toni and I went down and fixed Tank’s pen again. The question becomes, how do you keep a stud from walking through a circle gate when the circle needs to be able to walk through the gate?

On Thursday Ben took the red pickup and trailer to work to get shavings for the show and fuel Red up. Anna and Jaxsen dyed their heifers, I am unsure what day Kade dyed his, but they were dyed at some point. Kaine and Kade loaded feed and the chutes into the trailer to be ready to go on Friday.

On Friday we packed up to head to another show with our caravan. Kade and Jaxsen went to school and Kaine and Anna stayed home and packed. Toni called me in the morning to tell me Voodoo foaled and there was a flood at the corral. I told her to take care of voodoo and I will check out the flood situation. So Toni, mom and dad got Voodoo and the colt into the back yard, Voodoo is Molly’s mom, so did not take her foal last year. Mom wanted to give her a second chance. She likes the guy so that is good. The main line had broke, so I called Ben and Kicker, Ben put in an emergency off and Kicker told me what all to shut off at the pumping station. It has been a few years since I shut off or started the pumps. The alley road is lower than the corrals, so the water did not flood the corrals at all, it went down the alley. Then I helped Toni for a bit and went back to finish packing. Terry showed up with Livvy, actually early enough to help Toni with Voodoo, so Toni and Terry took Livy down to put with Tank. We got that done and did chores, Toni picked up the boys and we took off. Toni and Jaxsen took her pickup and the Wilson, Anna and Kade had Red and the Red Trailer and Kaine and I followed in Butte and the camper. Leslie in the Mini Pete and and Eby and Traci in the Escalade joined the caravan at Connell. About 10 miles from Ritzville the transmission overheated in the old red pickup, it was close to 100 degrees and we were headed up a steepish grade. So we pulled over, threw another steer from red into the Wilson, switched vehicles around, so Kaine and I were in Old Red and we moved to the back of the line with Traci following in case we needed to slow down. But it was downhill the rest of the way, so we made it fine. We unhooked and Nick and I set up the campers while everyone else set up the cattle. We had Ben’s meat balls for dinner.

We had the Wheatland jackpot on Saturday. Uncle Joe brought Grandma down to watch all of the kids show, she had a great time. All of the kids did great. Ady and Kade were first in their classes so made it back in for first call and everyone else was second so on standby for the championship round. The show was great. Everyone showed great. At the conclusion of the show, we had dinner with the Angus Association and ice breakers (or a water fight whatever you want to call it) and a Jr Angus meeting. 

                On Sunday we had the Jr Angus show. Again everyone did great. Natalee, Anna and Kaine had Grands and a Reserve champion in their divisions in Bred and Owned. Jaxsen had a champion in his division with Emma Frost (aka Fatniss Eversteen). Kade and Natalee made it back to the championship round with their owned heifers. Kade’s fitting team won so he got a gift card to the Sullivans table and got a nice fitting comb. Natalee and Kade’s owned heifers made it back in to the championship round. We had McCall both days to keep us all in line. Whitney came and took pictures both days, with my camera so I did not have to worry about it, so that was great. We got home without a hitch but had lots of stuff to get home too.

While we were gone the men, mom and dad had a lot of their plate. We lost Leroy, here is the post for anyone that missed it. Losing Leroy was a blow. Even at 22, we still had hope for many more years with him. The men were fixing the main line and lining up welders (Juan who bought Mercedes the weekend before works for Callie’s Welding and hooked us up, really great guy). Tank’s pen continuously got out, Toni and I worked on the fence when we got home. And of course there was the normal work load of chores, checking, water, etc.

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