Trip to California.

This is the view from the plane of the Great Divide.

You don't want to forget your baggage in the Sacramento, CA airport.

This is a couple of shots of the drive up to the ranch and the town that I used to work at, with a couple of shots of Donner Pass.

If you've been to Inn N Out, you would know why I took this picture. Now I can sit and dream about this.

Pictures from brandings out in Adin.

Left to right: Me, Warren, and Thad.







Raw hide

This is a picture after our branding, at the Cinder Pit.

If ye fulfil the royal law according to the scriprure,

Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself, ye do well:

James 2:8

Clint

I'd like for you to meet my new 4 year old horse, "Clint".





Clint is a 4 year old black QH gelding, about 15 hands, that has not been worked with until now.


I'll be working him with a hackamore, and I've already done some ground work with him. And I've put the hackamore on him and played around with him on the ground. He already turns his head real nice and soft.

Here is somebody you might remember. Wrangler is doing well, but is bored to death at times since there aren't any cows for him to move here. So he has had to go from moving cows to staring down the cat "Bonnie". Bonnie has since passed on during the winter.

Wilson is still around as well, it's just the girls don't think Wilson is very photogenic.

If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above,

where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God.

Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Colossians 3:1-2

Don't Fence Me In

Sorry it has been awhile since I've updated my blog. As most of you know I'm back in Michigan for now. I was hired on full time at the place I work, with benefits and all. I hope to keep this updated some more, so I hope you'll come back again soon.

This is the archway entrance dad and I worked on for Mama and Daddy's 27 anniversary. Don't it look nice?

Then a couple of weeks later, dad and I got to work putting in some barbed wire fence.

Here is my heart... My wire heart for stays in a stretch wire gate.

Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing:

thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness.

Psalms 30:11

Arch Way Entrance

This is the last project Warren and I worked on together. As some of you know I'm leaving the ranch for a new job in Michigan. I still hope to keep updating this every now and then, so please stop by again.

God Bless.

Another Drive.... Cattle Drive that is.

Starting out, before the sun came up.



These miserable girls keep coming back about 8 miles. They just don't get the hint that we want them to stay away from here.

My 2 buddies.
Wilson and Wrangler.

Norm in the distance.

White House Flat.

White House Flat.
Someone got offended a while ago about the White part of it. So now the Forest Service calls it Ambrose Vally. But we still call it White House.

Wilson getting them up.

Now Wrangler is getting them up.

Pushing the cows to the middle of the flat to the meeting point, to push them further up the mountain.

Wrangler getting a hold. You should see him work. Wrangler likes to fight the cows when they're facing him and bellering, and Little Wilson likes to bight the heels.

At the meeting point getting ready for the big push.

The other morning when there was just a little bit of smoke in the air. Now there's a lot of fires close to us, and a ton of smoke in the air. I can't see 2 mile away sometimes.