On Friday everyone went to Mom and Dad’s for Thanksgiving. We had a great time. It’s been a tradition for the last several years to take family pictures at our Thanksgiving feast. And this year was no exception. Early in …

It’s hard to believe that eleven years ago today, this little whipper snapper entered this world. And boy am I glad he did. I sure love this kid. He’s handsome. He’s athletic. (All first basemen wear cowboy hats, right?) He …

Earlier last week I helped Will in the field. We are getting to the home stretch of harvest and Will needed someone to run the auger wagon for a few days. So my job was to pull up beside him …

The other day Aunt Bon texted and asked if I had time to make it out and take pictures of the guys pouring the pillars for the new barn since she was busy helping Will. The kids and I had …

I love Sundays. We go to church, come home, eat lunch, take a nap, then do whatever we feel like doing. And this Sunday we felt like checking our livestock. (Which we do every other day of the week, but …

I can’t believe it’s been a whole year, but on this date last year, the feed efficiency-testing center blew away. I can still picture it vividly. Dad and I had weighed some calves down there in the morning and had …

We finished branding and ultrasounding our fall-born heifers Thursday. Here I am taking an ultrasound image of this heifer’s ribeye. Have you ever eaten a nice, juicy ribeye steak? I’d sure hope so! Well, that’s what I’m taking a picture …

We are planning to freeze brand our fall-born bulls and heifers this week. I’ll try to post some pictures of that tomorrow, but here is a short demonstration on how we freeze brand.

We freeze branded all our yearling fall-born bulls today. (If you’re wondering what the oily stuff is running down into the “W,” we ultrasound at the same time we freeze brand so my oil gets into the branding area sometimes.) …

Yesterday was an absolutely gorgeous day. It was 70 degrees, the sun was shining, and there was just a slight breeze. Perfect weather in my opinion! It was the type of day where you just wanted to be outside doing …