Today was another gorgeous fall day. So we moved a group of spring cows down the road a little way to a stalk field.
My Random Day
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 …
Field Trip
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 …
ISU Presentation
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 …
Having Fun with the Little Ones by: Lindsay Hays
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 Test
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 …
Fall Babies
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, …
Grammy’s Birthday
Wednesday was Grammy’s 39th (lol) birthday! Beck and the girls came up Tuesday night and we all had supper together. It was a fun time and Jakey even got to butter Grammy’s nose. I don’t know what we would do …
Calfhooding Heifers
We calfhood vaccinated our spring heifers yesterday. For the longest time, I didn’t know what that meant. But calfhooding is a vaccine given to heifer calves between the ages of 4 to 10 months to prevent brucellosis. While brucellosis has …
The Kitties
We’ve acquired a couple new kitties recently. Their original purpose was to live up at Joe and Heather’s and catch mice in the barn. However, Matt and Abby thought we should just keep them at our house for a while. …