Let it Snow, Let it Snow.........Not!!!

Well, we got hit with about 6 inches of snow yesterday. Hannah was busy throwing snow.

Look, its a snow girl!!!

Looks chilly out there. The steers calves are in the background waiting for feed.

A view from the deck.

The Aftermath of a Large Cattle Sale

This is what I came to work to on Thursday morning. We had about 2000 head of feeder cattle and two bull sale on Tuesday, plus several weighups, oh and some bred cows too.

The double doors lead to the ring and yes, that's a moose on the wall.

This the hallway in front of the office, door on the right.

This is the hallway to the ring, yuck!! I swept it as best as I could, I usually mop it, as it was about 10 degrees in the ring Thursday morning. The guys were welding in the ring, so we couldn't turn the heat on.

This a picture of the block, where the auctioneer sits and the block clerk, along with some others. Sorry about the ring pictures being foggy, like I said it was 10 degrees and my camera kept fogging up. I clean up there too.

This the little pickup that the guys use to haul the welder. Its small, so it is easier to get into the ring. A bull caused a little trouble in the ring and broke a few things.

Here is all the seating in the barn, there was lots of garbage to pick up. The seats came out of a movie theater.

Here are the pictures of what the barn looks like after I am all done cleaning and polishing the floors.

So shiny

So, now you know what I do after a sale. We got snow yesterday, so it will be a mess again on Tuesday. Welcome to my world.

Things About Me

Here are a few things you may or may not know about me.....

Raised on a ranch in Montana/Married the first time at 18/ Moved 7 times in 12 years/Mom of three/Widowed at 30/Married to dh for seven years/Love to quilt and craft/Work part-time as church secretary/Work part-time at Sale Barn/Lived in South Dakota, Wyoming, and Montana/Have a tattoo/Just started a new business/Christian/Gardener/Love dogs/Love to read/Favorite book-Follow the River/Never been to college/I'm 8 years older than my brother/1988 graduate/Favorite song-He's Alive/Favorite color-blue/
Good cook/Good eye for bulls/5'3"/

That's it for now, maybe I'll think of something else later.

Black Hills Stock Show Scholarship

Grace received the Black Hills Stock Show Foundation Scholarship, Wednesday, February 4th. We were invited to a banquet and ball. We are really proud of her. Tomorrow we are off to Mitchell to Dakota Wesleyan University, Grace has an interview for a scholarship on Monday morning. Wish her luck.

Jr High Basketball

Here's a picture of Cassidy going up for a shot. Sorry the type isn't bigger under picture.

The Boys

Isn't he pretty?

Here are the boys bellied up the bunk. These are our "baby bulls" that will be for sale in May.

A Little Road Trip

We decided to take a little road trip to Colorado, Westcliffe to be exact, to look at a bull. We left Friday morning, after dropping Hannah off with Grandma.
Doug did the driving and we soon found out that our "butts" aren't shaped like the suburban seats. We got a bad case of "TB" (tired butt) before we got to Colorado Springs the first night.

Then we took off south of Colorado Springs Saturday morning. This the mountains all covered with snow.


Here are some of the pictures of the mountains of Colorado that we drove through.

Here is a picture of a train following the Arkansas River. The river is between the road and the tracks.

We then decided to check out the Royal Gorge Bridge. Here I am standing beside the South Dakota sign on the bridge.

Doug standing in the middle of the bridge. Just over Doug's shoulder you can see a red dot, that is the tram that we decided to skip.

Here you can see the Arkansas River below. The bridge is the highest suspended bridge in the world. It is 1053 ft above the river. It was built in 1929 as a tourist attraction. Its 1260 feet long and 18 feet wide.

When we were about the middle of the bridge a pickup and trailer crossed over and man did the bridge bounce then. I thought Doug was going to jump, but he didn't, thank you God.

These are the cables that hold the bridge up. I can't remember how many strands of number 9 wire there are in one cable, but a lot.



Doug wanted to prove to everyone that the planks on the bridge were wood. Most of the planks were close together, but a couple had like an inch to two inch gap, that is a weird feeling to look through them.


Here is a picture of what they called a railway and you can ride down to the bottom to the river, not.

They put you inside these cages and you ride down staying up.

There they go, down to the bottom and then they have to ride back up, seriously.

Somewhere between Scottsbluff, NE and Hot Springs, SD I fell asleep. After spending two nights in hard beds, I just couldn't take it anymore. We returned home Sunday afternoon after picking Hannah up in Rapid City. Oh, its nice to be home, but we had fun. Oh, by the way, we did buy a bull and he will be delivered in May some time.