Wales Permit

Last week, we trailed cows up on the Wales permit. Earl and some friends left at 5:30am and started the cows from Chester. I got kids up and ready and lunches and coolers loaded and the kids and I met the herd just as it was starting up the canyon. Dally and Kalon rode as soon as we got there but Hayes and Chansy stayed in the truck and trailer with me. Hayes had torn a gash in his thigh the night before on some barbwire and was out of commission.

Ty

Earl and Jaws and Kalon on Bullseye. It was the real first hard ride that we tried Bullseye on
and he did so well. Kalon has a new favorite horse now. He is actually Junior's old horse (long story how we ended up with him).

Kalon and Dally hiding in the grass.

Earl and Dally trailing down into Rees' Valley.

Riding in the truck. Usually, he doesn't want to ride but his cousin Ty was helping us and he really wanted to ride with him.

Earl and Chansy

Rees' Valley. We stopped for lunch and to let the cows rest.

It rained and threw a little lightening but not bad enough to scare us out of driving back down the canyon.

Dally fell asleep in the truck the last mile of trailing but she rode the whole way besides that. They decided to ride the 8 miles back off to Wales.

Pulling a trailer up Wales canyon is NOT fun. Hairpin turns and drop-offs make for a very unnerving ride. Holding back a trailer full of 7 horses on the way back down Wales Canyon was SO not going to happen, especially after a rain storm. I crawled down with one horse in low gear, 4-wheel drive and still breathed a sigh of relief when I made it down. All in all, it was a beautiful day! Everything was greener than I have EVER seen it. Almost an unbelievable green!

(and we didn't see any rattle snakes this year) YAY!

Cowboy Up!

Sorting off for Wales permit. We had Earl, Shane, Dally, and I to sort off 90 pairs by ourselves. We only ended up getting 64 pairs that day. It was WILD!

Dally and Cherry


Twinkie is amazing!

Indianola permit

The last couple of months have been crazy busy at our house. Actually NOT at our house because we haven't been home much. We have paired off, sorted out, trailed, loaded, trailered, branded, doctored and turned out cows EVERYWHERE! It has been exhausting. You can imagine what my house looks like! The kids have been troopers though! Here are a few photos of a few of our days. Earl finally yelled at me one day, "You look like a tourist with that camera around your neck". I guess that I wasn't as much help as he needed so I had to put away the camera and just sneak pictures when I could.

Check out the monster in the middle!

Trimming hooves.

Sorting pairs in the corral. Kalon and Dally helped at the gate.

Earl, Kalon, Dally, and Hayes. Hayes' first time riding Twinkie. They did awsome!

Trying to keep up with dad and the cows.

Kalon and Dally

The kids bringing the herd by themselves. I had to wait in a different field with Chansy and turn the cows.

After a full day in 90 degree heat, the kids just sulled up and wouldn't help. Earl and I had to finish everything up on our own.

It didn't help that Chansy had not had a nap either.

Kalon sacked out on the flatbed!

I am so pround of my kids. They can all cut out a cow by themselves, even Dally. We work hard but I am so glad that they are learning to work even if it isn't always as fun as they think that it should be. They are cowboys!