We weighed several more groups of cattle on test this morning. Mom even came down to help. Rhett just walked by and glanced at this picture and said, “Whoa. That just doesn’t look right. Grampy behind Herefords.” But then I …

Yesterday evening, a group of us headed down to Maryville. You see, Beck and Craig’s church has an annual Harvest Party on Halloween night as an alternative to the traditional Trick-or-Treating. And it is so much fun! There are all …

We dropped Ty off from school the other day, and Jake ran out to greet us. He’s always so excited when his big brother gets home. And today he was even more excited because he had just named their two …

Today was another gorgeous fall day. So we moved a group of spring cows down the road a little way to a stalk field.

I had my camera with me today and when I got home to import the pictures, I realized I had a rather random collection of photos. I’ll show them to you! First thing, I had to run up to Mom …

Thursday I got to go with the junior high students on a field trip to the Botanical Gardens in Des Moines. And Ashtyn just happened to be in my group! She’s so lucky. Poor Rhett didn’t get to be in …

On Tuesday of this past week, I got to go to Iowa State University and give a presentation to the Collegiate Beef Team. It was such a fun time! I graduated from Iowa State several years ago, so I was …

Heather got her wisdom teeth pulled on a Monday. We got to keep Jake 3, Emma 1 ½, and Brook who is 4 ½ months old. Ty stayed up in Iowa and kind of bounced from house to house. Poor …

October is the start of the “busy season” at the feed efficiency testing center. We have the barns full of bulls to be tested and Wednesday was the day to give them their vaccines and EIDs. Dad is the one …

It was a gorgeous fall day yesterday. One of those days you just have to stop and thank God for. We’d had a string of dreary, damp, cool days, but yesterday was perfect. The sun was shining, it was warm, …