Been Awhile!

Its been awhile! I can't believe its mid July! WOW!
All is well in the hot, dry channeled scablands here.
We've been busy pulling bulls, moving heifers and trying to beat the triple digit temps!
Its been so hot (in the 90's) at night that I spend a lot of time outside in the evenings!

Here's the moon, venus and Jupiter.  

 

Full moon coming up.

 

 

Hot, hazy, sun setting.

 

 

A friend flew over the ranch and snapped this awesome picture out the window! Yea, we live down there! HA! Kinda? bizarre looking landscape.

 

 

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Boys will be Boys

Sitting on the back patio watching two bulls having a discussion on who is the most handsome! Luckily no heads got knocked together! The "reddish" grass you see is June grass. Very high in protein. It slicks the coat up on the cows and makes the babies fat!

As you can see, they are not to far away from the yard!!!

 

I love how the steer calves have to get involved! LOL!

 

 

Don't forget your head!

 

 

A beautiful sunset on this cloudy day.

 

 

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WE ESCAPED

We escaped for the day. No agenda, just hopped in the car and drove!! We went to Palouse Falls and on down to Walla Walla. Back roads all the way. No map, no GPS. It was a beautiful day for a road trip!
Palouse Falls is a gorgeous fall. Cow Creek, which runs through the ranch, runs into the Palouse River, over the falls and onto the Snake River. Looking at the landscape that surrounds the falls, you wouldn't think there's any water for MILES. You have to drive down a dirt road to the falls. And yes, it is a state run. The falls are about 35 miles south of us.
Here's a little tidbit from Wikipedia.

The falls are 198 ft in height. The canyon at the falls is 377 feet deep, exposing a large cross-section of the Columbia River Basalt Group. These falls and the canyon downstream are an important feature of the channeled scablands created by the great Missoula Floods that swept periodically across eastern Washington and across the Columbia River Plateau during the Pleistocene epoch
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The ancestral Palouse river flowed through the currently dry Washtucna Coulee to the Columbia River. The Palouse Falls and surrounding canyons were created when the Missoula Floods overtopped the south valley wall of the ancestral Palouse River, diverting it to the current course to the Snake River by erosion of a new channel.
The area is characterized by interconnected and hanging flood-created coulees, cataracts, plunge pools, kolk created potholes, rock benches, buttes and pinnacles typical of scablands. Palouse Falls State Park is located at the falls, protecting this part of the uniquely scenic area.

                                            Looking down stream.

Coming into Walla Walla. Those are the Blue Mountains we can see from home!! No snow on them either. Sad.       

                                       
 We stopped at Fort Walla Walla museum and wandered around. I spotted this little guy watching us!

Back to riding and sorting pairs tomorrow. Its suppose to be 80*!!! Then branding on Tuesday.

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Spring time work

Its been so long, I almost forgot how to use this thing!
We've been busy riding, sorting and branding calves.
Its been beautiful weather and the calves are fat and full of green grass. :)

Riding yesterday, I ran into, ( not literally) the first rattlesnake of the season! It said Hello, but I didn't reciprocate the greeting! LOL!  UGH! Glad the dogs didn't hear it or see it! No picture of that thing! I did get a few great pictures of coyotes. They have babies in the den. The babies are about 3-4 weeks old, so the coyotes are on high alert. Especially with 2 dogs with me!

I just love these hills. Back in the '80's they had the mars rover here test driving it. Said it was the closest environment that matched mars! HAHA!

My best cowpony ever! I trust him with my life on a daily basis. As he trusts his life with me. Standing in the barn among all the bawling calves.

At 77 this old guy still has it! He still does everything. His motto. People die on the couch everyday! And by God, I'm not gonna be one of them! HA!

Baby calves in a jug getting ready to be branded.

Last nights sunset.

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Miz Personality

She is back in her cave and has 2 babies that I saw. She wasn't nesting in her usual spot last year. So I am glad to see her back. She even got one of her babies up so I could get a picture!

Mr and Mrs bald eagle are back sitting on their nest too! Glad to see them back also.

Sitting in the nest.

We braved these ominous clouds and saddled up and got the heifers and their babies on the meadows to get ready to sort and brand on Thursday. We did luck out and the stormy clouds went around us. Although the wind did blow something fierce!!

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