Rain, Rain, Come to stay

With branding season in full swing, it was only appropriate that we had another branding to attend this past Saturday.  We got done with the branding around 1:30 in the afternoon, then went home & cleaned up to run to Billings for a few things.  We also scored some pretty cool patio furniture while in Billings as well, and we can’t wait to try it out!  I see many summer evenings spent on our patio with our fire pit going, good steaks on the grill, drink in hand, and enjoying a big Montana sunset on our new patio furniture! 

Sunday we spent the morning pulling the CIDR’s out of our heifers, and that afternoon Wesley & David roped the steers in the arena.  We spent the majority of Monday inside because we were blessed with more beautiful rain almost all day Monday.  While we did have a break in the rain Monday we started to weed eat our yard to prepare to mow it.  We haven’t had to mow our yard since we moved because last year was such a severe drought that nothing grew.  So we are pretty excited to get to mow the yard…eventually. 

We have been blessed with more rain Tuesday and again Wednesday, and it isn’t supposed to quit raining until the weekend.  We are very much ok with this and welcome the moisture with open arms.  Yesterday after I got off work I headed to the ranch to plant our garden before the rains came so it would get some good moisture.  If everything seeds & grows we will have one heck of a garden this year!  I planted okra, onions, corn, bell peppers, lettuce, tomato, radishes, beans, squash, and cucumbers (I don’t think I left anything out…).  I’m pretty excited about our garden.  I’m hoping to get a good okra & bean crop so I can pickle some of them like my sister & brother in law did – we tried some of theirs over Christmas & they were delicious!! 

This weekend we plan to get our yard mowed, put our patio in, and we’re going to have a date night this weekend too.  I love our date nights as they are always a way for Wesley and I to just catch up with each other, even though we try to do that each night.  It is uninterrupted time with my husband that I cherish.  Sunday Wesley is roping as the first roping of the summer kicks off on Sunday afternoon.  I love watching him rope because he enjoys it so much, and he loves training on our horses.  I’m hoping to get some good pictures of him roping again this summer!

And, I know I still need to post pictures from our Vegas Vacation.  I'm hoping to get to that some time this week or weekend!