Working Ranch Blog
Made It by Brett Haas
Aug. 18 2010, 6:44 PM
Aug. 18 2010, 6:44 PM
This is the reason the LCBIA crew endures sitting at a booth all week at the Fair. These are our scholarship winners this year. Pictured L to R are Kirk Sours (Scholarship Chair and VP), Michael Holton, Hillary Sadoff, Cole "Get Buff" Buffo, and Kelly Yunghans.
Well, I made it through Fair week in one piece, as least as I can tell so far. I'm sure I melted off about 10 pounds. Of course, the day after the Fair a cool front moved in. Needless to say I had a beautiful Sunday to recoup, even though I spent the whole afternoon inside watching Die Hard 2. Hey! It was a long week! I'll do what I want on my day off.
Anywho, the cool front brought with it a sign and feeling of things to come. It's not 88 anymore at 7 a.m. The hay is done. Football's on. School has started. My never-ending fence project should be coming to a contradictory end in a couple days. The pastures are being clipped in anticipation of new Fall calves hitting the ground. And heck, I even get to go saddle up in the morning to shift a few herds around so we can get those Fall mothers-to-be in those freshly clipped pastures. Yes sir, I made it through another hot summer and Fall is on its way.
Yeah, I know that I got a few more hot days before I can officially complain about how cold it is, but I'll take a break when I can get one. This summer seemed as hot and miserable as last
Guess which calf got left behind, whom I had to chase through the gate (On Cooper none the less. Arghh!) because he was watching me snap a shot instead of following the herd?
winter was cold and miserable. I don't know. At least we weren't calving out heifers in the heat. Although, for the first time since I've been on the ranch, we do have some Fall heifers to calve out. Oh, joy! Naw, I'm just kidding. It ought to be interesting. That and, uh, let me be clear. I don't have to do it. He, he. Yeah, I suckered, uh, I mean talked Kirk into taking them down to his place. He actually volunteered for the job. He's got the facilities to assist if need be, but not the faculties enough to stick somebody else young and dumb, like yours truly, with the job. Actually, he's just nice enough not to make me. I'll shut up now.
So, because those heifers were bred to calve a bit earlier before their older bovine relation, (Read that last line in an Ulysses Everett McGill voice. Yeah, that's it. Nice, huh? I'm so dang clever, ain't I?) we get to saddle up in the a.m. and move some Spring cattle around to make a path so we can get the Fall cows north of my place and the Fall heifers down by Kirks'. Then, on Thursday, we're gonna call a couple top hands to come help with the big move. Word has it that Jim and Shorty are coming too. Stay tuned!
Does it feel like Fall in your neck of the woods yet? I saw geese flying south already yesterday. I don't think it's a good sign. Anywho, tell me what's a going on with your mercury at thekansascowboy36@gmail.com. You can also drop me a line on Facebook or stalk me on Twitter.
Anywho, the cool front brought with it a sign and feeling of things to come. It's not 88 anymore at 7 a.m. The hay is done. Football's on. School has started. My never-ending fence project should be coming to a contradictory end in a couple days. The pastures are being clipped in anticipation of new Fall calves hitting the ground. And heck, I even get to go saddle up in the morning to shift a few herds around so we can get those Fall mothers-to-be in those freshly clipped pastures. Yes sir, I made it through another hot summer and Fall is on its way.
Yeah, I know that I got a few more hot days before I can officially complain about how cold it is, but I'll take a break when I can get one. This summer seemed as hot and miserable as last
Guess which calf got left behind, whom I had to chase through the gate (On Cooper none the less. Arghh!) because he was watching me snap a shot instead of following the herd?
So, because those heifers were bred to calve a bit earlier before their older bovine relation, (Read that last line in an Ulysses Everett McGill voice. Yeah, that's it. Nice, huh? I'm so dang clever, ain't I?) we get to saddle up in the a.m. and move some Spring cattle around to make a path so we can get the Fall cows north of my place and the Fall heifers down by Kirks'. Then, on Thursday, we're gonna call a couple top hands to come help with the big move. Word has it that Jim and Shorty are coming too. Stay tuned!
Does it feel like Fall in your neck of the woods yet? I saw geese flying south already yesterday. I don't think it's a good sign. Anywho, tell me what's a going on with your mercury at thekansascowboy36@gmail.com. You can also drop me a line on Facebook or stalk me on Twitter.
