Home on the Range

Although I had a wonderful time visiting my family, I was very excited to get back to my husband & dogs! Since being back on the ranch I've spent most of my time catching up on things I missed around here, discussing our upcoming schedule (we're facing a few busy months ahead), and basically trying to find my ol' faithful routine to fall back into. (It was a good routine, and I liked it, the kind you want to stick to!)

While I was gone my husband had his hands full with the ranch, having to move all of our cattle into the next pasture. Since we do rotational grazing with our cattle it's important that we stick with our schedule we make 6 months in advance. He had no choice but to move them the best he could, from our biggest pasture, with a cake truck. Since the pasture is so big, he assumed he probably missed a few and so we all went out on our horses and rode the entirety of "Big" pasture.

So far so good, no cattle in sight. 

"Wait a minute...what's that speck way out on the top of that hill..."

It's a bird, it's a cow, it's .... my father-in-law! 

After an hour or so we finally got the first section of "Big" covered successfully. One down, 3 to go! 

So we headed off, Diesel, my camera and I in tow. 

Isn't he just so good-looking on his horse!! Yeah, I think so too.

"Bud you check right, I'll check the left." 

After a good 2 1/2 hours we had scanned the whole pasture and surprisingly spotted zero stragglers. I call that a good day! I was pretty impressed with the fact that my husband had herded all of our cattle into the next pasture with the cake truck alone. On second thought, why would I have thought otherwise, he's a pro in the cake truck, and so good-looking. Did I mention how good-looking he is? 

I'm happy to be home!