Monday was Memorial Day. For our freedoms: freedom of speech, freedom to worship, freedom to assemble, freedom to petition, freedom of the press, and more. On Memorial Day, we remember those who gave their lives so we could live free.

We finished working the cows on Monday, then everything around the barn, fat steers, bulls, heifers, etc. That took quite a few hours. We had people coming out to look at foals, so showed them and they purchased a filly. On the way down to show the horses Toni saw a turtle in the middle of the road and did her good deed for the day by moving it off the road so it didn’t get ran over.  We moved Star in with MC, and Lendy and Eddie back to Sagebug. We saw Sagebug’s herd, they all look good. Cammie was the only one left in circle 5, so we hauled her home and put her in with the old horses. We put Blueberry, the grullo roan mare we got in to breed in with Dude. We moved water, etc. The kids washed their heifers and steers when we got done working the cows. We are in the middle of cattle show season so the kids need to work on their cattle as much as they can. Jaxsen doesn’t, but the other 3 do pretty good.

Back to work and school on Tuesday. Anna only had a few days of school before graduation. Rosie had a cute palomino colt by Sagebug on Tuesday. I named him Tuff after his grandma and one of the Twins’ friend. Now just down to Cammie and Crystal left. Mom and dad went to Tri Cities. Kaine started summer football practice. Kade fixed the circle gate in Tank’s pen, he was going in and out of it. Anna drove around the cows to check and see if they were paired up. We managed to get chores done, but were all pretty tired from a jam-packed weekend of work.

Toni has been getting ready for a big court hearing, so not much got done with the horses on Wednesday. Kaine still had football leaving Kade and Jax to do most of the house chores. On Wednesday night Toni went and stayed with grandma. So I made Jaxsen come out and fix the hose with me. We did a great job.

Anna had no school on Thursday, so her and dad went to Alan’s to get their Charolais. Charlotte the Charolais and her calf came home and then the two fall heifers. Anna has decided she needs to show a couple of Charolais on top of everything else that is in the barn. Luckily, they are really nice heifers. She is going to show one and one of the boys will show the other at the Sagebrush show in July.  I went and stayed with grandma on Thursday night. Toni and Jaxsen did chores.

On Friday Toni had a big court case in Ephrata. The Kings, who are family friends, have been fighting on behalf of the ag community to protect the exempt stock water rights in WA. For anyone that wants more info, there was a good article in the capital press: https://www.capitalpress.com/ag_sectors/livestock/washington-ranch-sues-state-over-canceled-grazing-leases/article_56e569b6-db41-11ee-966b-1b51d10498e9.html

Anna graduated Friday night, so in the morning she had graduation practice. When she got home we got the cows and heifers in from the run to preg check and the bull in to trich test. Hank came around 1:30. Toni got home from court and Allie got there with Benelli, and we ultrasounded Annie and Reba. Annie is still pregnant and Reba is not. When Cammie foals Dad and Toni will run Reba and Cammie up to get bred. Then we all went in to the graduation. It was so great to see Anna and the other kids that we have watched through the years walk across the stage and accept their diplomas. We have been friends with many of these kids parents for years. This is a great group of kids for Anna to graduate with. As a graduation gift we bought her a saddle from Sheridan Saddle with the HJ brand and the KT brand on the saddle.

On Saturday Cammie foaled, fancy brown roan filly by The Goodbye Blue, “Cookie.” Anna went to Ritzville for Lane’s graduation; she went in the morning to help set up. I went out to check the cows, I saw a fat steer had gotten out, a bull calf was limping, the fall heifer we weaned had gotten back out and we needed to get the Marvel heifer in. So we ran them all in and sorted those off. Plus banded a black ballie. Then we did chores and went to Kelten’s graduation party where we got to eat some alligator and see some of the graduates.

On Sunday we did some work around then house. Then Meachams, mom and dad went to Diesel Buss’ graduation party and then we went to Daisy’s party. Then we came home and did chores.  We had mares to move after we had eaten too much at the parties. We had planned to put Butterscotch with Cappy but she went through the fence so she ended up with MC. One of the outside mares in with Cappy can be pretty aggressive so we already had concerns, so decided it was better to move her after she moved herself out. We also moved mares that we hope are bred back out so the pens aren’t crowded. Kade managed to ride Honey and Stormy over the weekend. Both are really coming along. He also worked on the 2-year-olds except for Wild who he ignores. Wild is not wild, she is just big.

We are super excited to announce we have put a colt in an online auction. We are trying to expand our market-
https://internethorseauctions.com/auction-ptb.php?aucid=541