Another Friend and An Enemy

Jim ,our partner from New jersey, arrived last week to help Clark with the hay and started cleaning the trailer for subsequent visits later this summer with his wife, Sande. He's getting a real taste for what it takes to get that place in shape after it sat empty all winter. But there is time to spare since the hail put the alfalfa behind about two weeks.

We put him to work on a small branding project. We had three calves that needed scorching before they go to market on Friday.

Heating the irons


No, he's not skiing, just running the irons from the chute.



The thunderheads were too enormous to capture the whole panorama last night.


Clark found an unwelcomed visitor this morning buzzing him as he tried to get through a gate from the yard to the bottom pasture. By virtue of his dangerous presence, he met his demise by shotgun.



Text and pictures © 2008 Mona E. Dunn