Monday is the late start for school day, but always an extra early day, get a jump on the week for everyone else.  Dad and Steve delivered a bull to Mary Cox in Nespelem. They had a blow out on the way home on the red trailer. Dad decided it needed 4 new tires. Aelina got the letter I mailed her on Monday, I am waiting for her to mail one back to me now. She puts more artwork on hers, I just put a pic on mine.  Toni stayed with grandma on Monday night. Anna and Pepper had done up a flower arrangement in FFA for Grandma that Grandma has proudly displayed on her kitchen table, she is quire proud of her granddaughters. We had some people stop by to look at the horses on their way home from a wedding. So we just wandered around at the house and looked at those. The gal had flip flops on, so I was little concerned with keeping her feet intact.

On Tuesday dad went to Ellensburg to deliver a bull for Joe. Toni came home from grandmas, stopped at the grocery store on the way home for mom. Then checked everything. Then went back to town to get her hair done, and on the way home she saw that Dally had foaled. A nice bay colt by Tank. She was worried mom was going to want to keep it if it was a filly. Toni and mom wend ahead and gave it colostrum just because he was acting like he hadn’t nursed super great. We are pretty trigger happy on giving the Nursemate ASAP. Better to give it than to be sorry later that you didn’t. Especially for the cost compared to losing a foal. Hurricane Hailey was also out when Toni went down, so mom and Toni put her back. McCall came down so the kids all had some practice with their steers. Toni also bought a new small computer for travel as her Surface Go decided to give up the ghost.

On Wednesday dad and Steve went to the Colville area with two of our bulls and another bull. They then had lunch with Ruth and Gary in Ady, good friends of ours. Mom went and stayed with grandma during the day. Scott called and was ready for his bulls anytime, so dad and Scott decided dad would go to Moses Lake on Thursday. Revel got bred to Cappy and didn’t kill him, so that is really a positive.  I did Toni and my chores, she was on a conference call, and then she needed some alone time so she went down and fixed the fence where the bull is crawling out into the desert. And guess who came up to see her? Gunner and his mares.  The kids had McCall out again so they worked on their steers. It is crunch time to get ready for the Jr. Show and we do not feel like the boys are ready at all.

On Thursday dad took 4 bulls to Moses Lake, he stopped and got some fencing supplies on his way home. We had an outside mare come on Thursday to breed to Cappy. We turned Huckleberry, Revel, Peanut, Almond and Stoker out of his pen for a few days and just put the outside mare in the pen. On my way home Ben was down fixing the fence between 5 and 6, some heifers got into 5, I saw the horse fence was down, so I went and got Anna and Anna and I fixed the horse fence then helped Ben for a few minutes with the other fence. McCall came out again on Thursday and the kids worked on their steers. The steers are getting better, no comment on if the boys are….

Toni had briefing due on a case on Friday morning. She has been burning the midnight oil on the case. Friday afternoon Chad came out to trim some horses. Toni helped him until Kade got home, then Toni and Marlo did chores and Kade and Chad went to look at Kade’s new mare and get her trimmed. Kade is calling her Honey. The plant sale is going on in at the high school, so the kids, at least Anna and Kade, I do not know about the other two, are working in there. Anna brought a few plants home on Thursday.

Saturday Kicker and I left bright and early to caravan with Leslie up to Spokane to get the campers set up for next week. We had some issues with plug ins so we had to run over to camping world to get adapters, and it was a whole thing. So we did not get home until midafternoon. Toni was at home working, the kids were all working. Anna gave a tour to a group of kids from Connell.  Toni had some friends out with a little girl to look at the horses, then she went and pulled hair on Chic to disease panel her for a gal. Needed to video Northern Gun for a different gal. McCall came out and Toni and McCall went and walked the alfalfa field. We had really bad winter kill so trying to decide what to do. We have a good agronomist in McCall. She works for a chemical company so knows her stuff. We also got Dally and Piper D in to get them worked and in with studs. Dally got to go back down to Tank. Piper D we are breeding the Dude. We moved Star in with Dude so she could have a safe place to foal, not out with all the young crazies. I went to stay with Grandma on Saturday night.

Sunday the kids got up early and started working on their steers, loading the trailer, and then took their steers over to Leslie’s for a pre-trip-trip. Jax isn’t going to the Jr. Show so his dad put him on a 4-wheeler so he could harrow the pasture. We had people out to look at bulls. People out to look at foals. Lots of people coming by to start looking and picking out what they want. We still have mares to foal, but what we have on the ground is pretty awesome.