It's been kind of hard lately to think of something to write on this blog, but just today we went out riding. Starting before dinner, we just got back to the house (with one break for dinner, noon meal).
Our heifers had gotten on to our neighbor's land a few days ago and we went to look for them on the 8th. We found a few but also lacked a few. We searched again on the 10th and today. Thankfully, today we found the last missing ones.
The pasture in which our heifers where is really big and has a lot of tamaracks, trees and a few hills. All of that equals a harder time of finding our missing girls, not to mention there were other cows in the pasture.
Today we were doing pretty good; we had found our heifers and were heading them toward our pasture when we had to enter a grove of tamaracks. Mom, Little J., and I got lost in the forest like area. Dad had to leave Big J. with the heifers and help us out.
That's when we came upon the river. Now all of the horses had crossed a river before, but today they refused no matter what. Dad got tense because Big J. was on Dad's horse who was acting up (she was worried about being alone) and he wanted to just cross the river and check on Big J. Dad was on Big J.'s horse and could not cross the river, so he rode the horse Mom was on. After crossing on that horse, Dad tried pulling my horse a cross.
We had known my horse would jump things and today she proved that once again. Two cow trails entered the river which made a hump of ground where they met. All that the horses had to do was walk down that trail and a cross the river. Paradise on the other hand decided to jump that hump of ground. And she did so more than once. I rode her as Dad pulled at her and as she jumped. It was a wild ride! Then, as Dad put it, "I got smart" and he told me to get off so that I wouldn't get hurt. After some pulling, encouraging, and water splashing, my horse crossed. Next was Little J. and Mom. Dad got his horse a cross and loped off to check on Big J. Of cause he was alright and we sorted our heifers from the other cows.
When they were sorted we pushed them to a pasture along ways a way. We rode about 5 to 6 miles this after noon. That's not counting the ride we did this morning.
It was a beautiful day to go riding. Big J. claims he saw a mountain lion or something, we also saw a few cacti with blossoms, and the first horny-toad this year.
So slowly spring is trying to pop out. Lately it's been cold so we had very few flowers, the trees just barely have leaves, and it's still brownish looking out over the land.
And yesterday we went to Cowboy Church which was at our church and had the pleasure to hear R.W. Hampton. It was a great night.
Now we will be getting ready for FMN (family movie night).
I was just looking at my calendar, it's hard to believe that a week ago from yesterday we had seen snow falling on to our ranch. : )
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