Farm Work

J is in the daily grind of feeding livestock.  He has to buy grain twice a month for the show cattle.

We had some wind damage to the barn recently that he repaired yesterday.
V has been helping feed the 50 pound sacks of grain.
They then took a minute to admire the cattle.

Pruning

I'm afraid my camellia won't look like this this year.  The goats got into the yard and did some indiscriminate pruning.

My camellia now looks like this.
The seemed to enjoy the tips of my Virginia Sweetspire.
And they devoured every leaf off of 2 Hollies.
It is amazing the havoc 50 goat can wreck on a yard.

One Year Anniversary

I missed our 1 year anniversary of the blog yesterday.  I can't believe I've kept this up for that long.  We'll see how many subjects get repeated this next year, and if I can keep up with the same number of posts.

Happy anniversary from here at the ranch.

V and E returned from resurrection  this afternoon.  This is a Methodist youth retreat in Gatlinburg that has 14000 youth attend over 2 different weekends.  I think they had a good time but they are very tired. 

This has been E ever since dinner.  J is afraid she might drown taking a shower.

Sore Foot

One of our Hereford heifers had sore foot the other day.  We had to get her up to treat her.

The usual remedy is an injection of a long acting antibiotic.
As always, Emma tries to divert the heifers attention while J gives the shot.
J said the heifer is doing better now.

New Bull

Our new Hereford bull arrived today.  Actually, only part of him and it was frozen in liquid nitrogen.

One of the Hereford cows was in heat today, so we had the AI technician come bred her.  Emma is trying to help out as always.
Hopefully, in 9 months we'll get a calf that looks like it's father.

Freezing Rain

We woke up to freezing rain today.  The driveway was slick, the grass was slick and the main road was slick.

There was a wreck on the main road we passed on our way to church this morning.
There is some left over snow at J's dad's farm.  It's snowing here now.  We are not expecting the girls to have school tomorrow.