As always, the weekend goes by way too fast. But, I did get my riding in just as I wanted to this past weekend! Friday evening we didn’t do much. We made finger foods for dinner, and watched some bowl games that were on TV that evening.
Saturday morning we got up and fed the heifers & steers. Then we had to go gather up the steers to bring in the ones with infections in their eyes, and castrate some that were left as bulls. What should have been about an hour long process of gathering those little devils ended up being about two hours because they did not want to be gathered…period! We finally got the majority of them rounded up, and put them in the corral. Then it was time to sort them. Not all of them needed tending to, just the ones who had watery eyes or infections in their eyes, and the bulls that needed to be castrated. We started out sorting steers on horseback in the corrals, but eventually got on foot, because we could see the infections a lot better on the ground verses being on the horses. Even though we were on foot those little guys still didn’t want to cooperate with us! So, I resorted to pulling a few of them by their tails & getting them into the corral that way! Wesley followed suit with a few of them also, and Moo Moo & David got a big kick out of us pulling them by their tails! We ended up “doctoring” about 40 or so steers, then trialing them back out to the pasture they were in.
Then it was time to gather the cows and bring them thinner ones in so they could be fed more & get more “beefed” up. The cows were a little more cooperative, but they still wanted to get a little wild at times! We brought those back in the pens at about 3 PM, and Moo Moo & I went in the house to warm up a bit (the winds were bad on Saturday afternoon), while Wesley & David sorted off the “thin from the thick”. It was about 4 PM when they were done sorting, and they trailed the cows back out to the pasture, while Moo Moo & I took the truck & trailer out & met the guys to pick them up & bring the horses in so it wouldn’t take them as long to get back to the house. After a fun filled day of riding, gathering, and doctoring, we were exhausted!! The Cotton Bowl (or some bowl) was on TV on Saturday night, so we propped up on the couch and watched the game!
Sunday we were both wide awake at 6 AM! So we watched a movie, then made breakfast & went & fed the heifers & steers. After that we decided to make a quick run to Miles City to get some dog food, and look at a few other things, and get some groceries while we were there. We ended up coming home with a Wii along with all of our other goodies. We LOVE that thing! We had the best time playing games together last night. We are big game people…we love playing games. We have a collection of board games, and now we have the Wii to play together! We eventually want to get the Wii Fit so we can start working out together. But for now, we are enjoying playing super Mario brothers and a few other games that we have.
We don’t have much planned for tonight, but of course to play our Wii! We hope everyone has a great week, and we miss everyone in Texas, but we are having a blast together up here!
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