Head 'em, move 'em out...to summer pasture |
Junior has too much hair and needs to cool off frequently. |
Two weeks ago we AI'd our heifers. It's always interesting to have 100+ hormonal females around the corrals. C's stepsons brought 50 head over to go through the process with ours since they'd never done it before so we had lots of extra help, and it went pretty smoothly. We had rain showers but before and after we were working so it was all good.
The girls with their "I'm ready" (heat detection) patches |
We took a little time to celebrate our 33rd anniversary with a little back roads crop tour and a stop at this little dam. It's kind of a hidden gem that we forget about and it's just a hop, skip and a jump cross country from our place.
The crop spraying is about wrapped up and haying has begun. Everything seems a bit early this year. M would like to let the grass grow a little more, but the alfalfa is just about in full bloom so he feels like he needs to get started. We've had timely rains and no hail thus far although we've seen some scary skies. Some neighbors had photos of a funnel cloud yesterday. I'm glad I didn't see it!
We believe M's dad is up there pulling some strings for us in the rain department. He'd be thrilled to see how good the crops and hay look this year especially after the dismal crops we had last year. I'm afraid that once again there will be no break between haying and harvest. We like to take a little summer excursion, but we don't see it happening again this year.
This weekend is the all-school reunion for my high school with the annual Opheim Rodeo--the big event of the summer, can't miss it. There's supposed to be a street dance tonight and as usual when one of those is planned it's cold and windy. Oh well, we're used to that and we're tough. It will be fun to see old friends.....