Playing Catch up…again….

Sitting in the month of July, I realized that I haven’t done much posting; almost none in May or June. It’s been pretty busy. We got new interns, had four brandings, had a cowboy carnival, hauling water up to the hills, irrigating and had some artificial insemination days. Then the biggie happened….hay season. Life got hectic, fast and scrambled. One particular 38 hour period, Matt didn’t sleep. They were trying to get hay raked and baled before a big thunderstorm came through. He’s also worked 5 ½ weeks straight with a few hours off for cowboy church and to do some personal truck maintenance. Everyone is working really hard and long hours. Wooster is gone before 5:30am and straggles in around 9:30-10:00pm. So, the girls and I are on our 2^nd shift schedule again. They are up around 10am, nap from 3-6pm, dinner around 8 or 9pm, play with Matt when he gets in, bedtime routine stuff and finally in bed around 11:30 or so. Between all those times we are usually outside in the sandbox, walking around the ranch, and riding in the tractor with Matt, taking food out to the fields, delivering popsicles and snacks to the interns, picking wild sunflowers and enjoying ranching life.

Here are a few pictures and I’ll catch up about each subject soon….maybe this week.

(in May the days were still in the low 60’s)

(those look like clouds, but are the mountains in the west)

(cowboy church before the cowboy carnival)

So far in July, the ranch has been working on the hay (we have a lot of fields, hundreds of acres, that are mowed for hay), working on broken equipment daily—it’s the main reason why it takes so long to get the hay in, had some fourth of July fun, helped fight a wildfire, gathered and moved cows, and did a 16 hour cow/calf round up. The cows are currently hanging out in front of our house waiting to go up the mountain. The workers will do an all-day cattle drive to get them to their mountain spots/allotments sometime later this week.