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I visited Mrs. Adams’s 5th grade class yesterday. We are working together to come up with a promotional poster for beef. It’s a competition sponsored by some state ag organizations which one of the student’s saw and brought to his …

When we weaned the fall calves last week, Mom pointed out this cow. Though she doesn’t look it, she is 18 years old. And she still weaned a nice, big bull calf. I was like, “Dang, girl, you’re like rockin’ …

We got the last of the fall calves weaned yesterday. Yeah! Here’s the final group making their way into the barn. That was a blessed sight yesterday. It’s always a fun job to wean the calves, but, like most things, …

We’re weaning the fall calves this week. When we wean, we also vaccinate, de-worm, weigh and tattoo the calves. It’s a fun-filled day of family time which almost always goes well. Of course there are sometimes a few hiccups, like …

(Matt wrote a blog about a day’s work on his ranch. He took the pictures and everything. I thought I’d share.) We started sorting the bulls and it was going well. We got the first one on the trailer and …

The boys cleaned out the horse lot the other day. Rhett’s job was to dump it in the manure spreader… And Matt’s job was to spread it. (And Will was there to offer instruction if necessary.) And my job, they …

These are a couple pictures I took of ice patterns while we were out walking on the creek. Very pretty! Then we hiked a hill, sunbathed, and took a little power nap. I took this picture, and I can’t decide …

This may just be me, but I have always thought that people who are really into fitness walk a tad funny. I always had it in my head that they are either strutting their stuff because they know they look …

I pulled into the beef center the other day and saw Will loading the bunks on the trailer. But as I got closer, I realized it wasn’t Will after all. It was Rhett. It seems like he was just six …

We started our second group of 50 yearling bulls on their feed test last week. And I took my camera down to get some pictures to show you, but I’ll be darned if I didn’t leave my SD card at …