The Blog

We were the last stop on the Iowa Angus Association tour on Sunday. What a fun day! We started our leg of the tour with Cowboy Church. This was something we’ve never done before, but I thought it was awesome. …

Heather sent me this picture from her tractor yesterday. We’ve been chopping the last several days which is an “all-hands-on-deck” “everyone-pitches-in” type affair. And let’s face it, it’s exhausting. Jakey went ahead and did what all the rest of us …

The last thing I have to tell about is Yosemite National park in California. This is a picture while we were driving into Yosemite. We walked a couple of hiking trails. The first trail went up to Dog Lake. Then …

We weaned calves last week. I hope to do a post on that adventure later this week, but in the meantime, I thought I would show you some pictures of my sweet nephews. This one was posing for me. So …

By: Lindsay Hays I will tell you about shooting archery today. Then I’ll do one more on Yosemite. Here’s Jessica shooting. They had stakes placed in the ground with different numbers on them for different level shooters. I shot this …

By Lindsay Hays. Our family went on a vacation a couple weeks ago to Nevada and California.  It was a pretty long trip–8 days total.  It was kind of a working vacation.  In fact, the latest that we slept was …

We put up the last of our sweet corn yesterday.  I tried a different approach this year, and I have to say I loved it. It all started when Abby was looking for something to do, and I said, “You …

We moved a group of Larson cows the other evening. I was a little nervous to begin with because Matt was gone, and Will was hauling a load of fat cattle, so it was just going to be Rhett, Abby, …

(Photo from Chowhound.com) Summertime is the perfect time to enjoy beef gyros.  Fresh veggies from the garden, a cool, refreshing yogurt sauce, and well-seasoned ground beef make this the perfect summer meal.  Plus, it’s quick and easy, so if you’re …

We had quite a crew moving cows the other day.  These lovely ladies were helping their Daddy.  Their job was to call the cows out of the pasture and lead them down the road.  It was pretty cute because you …