Well it is officially spring break for the kids so a lot getting done this week. Kaine’s pickup is in the shop and needs a new transmission, so he has been going to town chopping down trees. Halter breaking his animals is going so so, but trees are coming down. Kade is also doing minimal on his show cattle, he is into roping and working on the two-year-olds. I think Wild is the only two year old he has not worked on, because she sees the writing on the wall and will not come in when she sees him.  Monday, he worked on T (first time with T), Holly and Joss. Joss is the one he is working on to sell, so she has had the most work. Jaxsen is doing Jaxsen stuff, when Kade remembers he takes him down to work on his steers, but Jaxsen bought two halter broke steers from Anna, so he is already ahead of the game. Hopefully he does not need his extra steer or he is screwed. On Monday Kaine and Kade put in a rail road tie at the corral and Jaxsen, Toni and I put the poles back up. Cousin Scarlett has been coming down and helping Anna, she needs some girl time. So Anna and Scarlett have been washing Anna’s heifers and steers, and Scarlett might need to show Mottley, the extra show heifer, if she decides she wants too. Anna and Scarlett were doing lamb rescue on Monday, from the sheep that were abandoned last fall and are roaming around.

On Tuesday Carol O’Callaghan, a coworker’s spouse, brough in some really cool drawings her brother had drawn for me of Gunner. He did a great job. I am really excited to get them hung in my office. Kade roped and worked on the two year olds on Tuesday. Kaine only cut down a few trees because he needed to help Anna get ready for her photo session that night with Hannah Muhlbeier. Kaine has been gong to Maxx’s at night, they are rebuilding a 4 wheeler that Maxx’s grandma gave him. So Kade had to help with set up during the actual session. Toni did hair, makeup, outfits, etc. The session was great, we are excited to see the pics.

                On Wednesday dad and Kaine went to Wilbur to deliver bulls to repeater buyers, Dan, Rusanne and Seth Wagner. Thank you to them, they have been great over the years, we have some of their horses, they have one of ours, a City daughter out of Rosie. Dad also wants their red roan metallic cat bred mare. We probably want any other mares they have as well. Toni went and stayed with grandma on Wednesday night.

On Thursday Toni brought Leslie’s horse Sonic back with her, and then loaded him into Mr Dansie trailer, and he headed down for training with Will. Mr and Mrs Dansie are brought Jojo and PBJ back with them on Saturday. My new lens came on Thursday, so Anna went out and got some bull pics with it. The kids clipped their heifers and steers to go to Pomeroy and packed the trailer. Jaxsen and Toni put in a post on Thursday. Jaxsen was super excited about it. He feels like he is wasting his spring break. I stayed with grandma Thursday night.

On Friday morning Traci texted that there was snow in Pomeory, so only the Tracis and Leslies went to the show, the rest of us wimped out. And we did not feel bad about it at all. On my way home I saw Kandy Kane had foaled, so I stopped to check out the Leroy colt. He is a cute guy. I took my new lens down and got a bunch of pics of him. Then I told Toni it was the new lens (it is half hers not just mine) so she took some pics with it too. Kade has been working on the two year olds all week, and I got some pics of his first ride on Holly. She did really good. Anna and I also build fence on Friday, Lane showed up and helped us. We have one side of Tank’s pen done now.

On Saturday we got the cows all in, Jose brought his wife out to look at pairs, and so we needed to sort them off. We turned the cows out into circle 4. Jose and his wife showed up around 2, they picked out a Hereford cow and calf and Toni and dad delivered them on Saturday. I got some pics of Sagebug when I was out looking for more cows. Kendel stayed with grandma on Saturday, and grandma was reading Kendel the police blogger in the paper and Kendel was laughing. So she had to send us updates.

On Sunday Ty from Sunrise photography came out and did the video of Anna for FFA Star Farmer, she is in the top 4. Toni, Kade and Jaxsen got the horses in and checked them. Katana and Fancy both foaled, a fancy bay colt by Gunner and a buckskin filly by King. When I got done I headed down with the trailer and we hauled all of the mares out of circle 5, for the air strike on the Russian olive trees on Monday. We moved mares for the rest of the day.