We are full swing into the haying season & with that comes busy weekends for us. Last weekend we worked all weekend, but managed to celebrate Moo Moo’s birthday last Saturday with a bar-b-que feast! Last Friday was her actual birthday, and that evening we all roped at the ranch. Saturday morning started out early with Wesley swathing hay while I stayed back at the house to clean, prepare the food, keep a close eye on our smoker, and get things ready for the birthday celebration that evening. Wesley quit working about 6 Saturday evening so he could come help me continue to get things ready for supper. David and Jewel were coming over about 7:30 that evening so we wanted to have everything ready for them when they arrived. However, apparently the electric company had other ideas because about 6:45 our power went out, and stayed off until about 9:00 that night! That meant no mac-n-cheese, no mashed potatoes, no gravy…nothing! Well, we made the most of it anyway. We played cards with the windows open until the power came back on, and then quickly finished our mashed potatoes and gravy (we opted to not do the mac-n-cheese since we cook it over the fire in a Dutch oven & it takes a while) and finally got everything on the table about 9:45 that night. We enjoyed delicious BBQ ribs, T-bone steaks cooked medium rare, mashed potatoes, gravy, a fresh garden salad, cucumber salad, and blackberry cobbler bars for dessert! It was pretty tasty!
Sunday morning we needed to move our cows from one pasture to another, so it was another early start for us that day as well. We got the cows moved in a couple hours, and had time that afternoon to go to our neighbors house for a little practice roping for a couple hours. Clint & Sarah were there with their newest little guy, Hayes, and of course I had to hold him almost the entire time we were there. He is such a snuggly little guy that it makes it hard to put him down! He’s grown so much since the first day we saw him, and I can’t believe how much he looks like his older brother Jack. Those two are some pretty adorable kiddos.
The Rosebud/Treasure County Fair is this weekend, and I think Wesley and I are going to go down to the fair Saturday morning & watch the steer and heifer shows, and enjoy some delicious fair food! No county fair is like the Washington County Fair back home, but I guess in order to get my ‘county fair fix’ this one will just have to do. Moo Moo has some kids in her FFA chapter that are showing heifers so I think we’ll go down & see if the kids need help getting their heifers ready Saturday morning before watching them show. I hope they do well! Sunday we plan to go to our friend’s Jay & Edyna’s house again to rope as one of the guys that ropes regularly with us at local ropings is moving back to North Dakota – so its like a ‘going away’ roping for him & his wife. It should be a good time. Hopefully Wesley will do well at the roping!
Its about a month until my parents come up for their annual visit to the Big Sky State, and we are anxiously awaiting their arrival! We have lots of fun things planned for their trip this time so we’re excited to have them back here visiting us again! Not too much longer and the fun begins J
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