I LOVE THIS Cowboy

I love this man--cow poop and all!Yes, I'm talking about Terry and not my horse! Although I love Cowboy the horse too--just not as much as I do Terry!  Terry is such a hard worker, he can do ANYTHING, is considerate of others--especially me, loves his family--especially all 6 of those grandkids, is good with animals, makes a mean omelete, shows respect for the elderly, loves a good joke, finds the humor in most situations, and is an all around good guy. Even makes a great part time cowboy when needed! (Part time cowboys are needed in Peance Creek, Colorado EVERY year the last week of October to gather all those cows off the range and bring them back home to Utah!) Thanks hon for still making my heart flutter each and every day for the past 32 years. Cow poop looks good on you!

Colorado Sunsets

We just spent the last 9 days over in Peance Creek, Colorado gathering the cows from 29,000 acres of land. Yep, that's 29 thousand acres. The property is 27 miles long by 4 miles wide. It takes an hour (in a vehicle) to get from the bottom of the mountains to the top of the mountain range. It can make for some really looooong days--especially if you are on horseback. We LOVE this time of year tho. We love spending time with and working along side family to gather the cows and bring them back to Utah. I did a combination of horseback riding, riding my razor all over the country side, and driving our truck up and/or down the mountain to follow horse riders. It was a great time and believe it or not.......I can't wait to do it again! We had some rain, sunshine, warm days, cold mornings, freezing nights, and even some snow. The weather was soooo much nicer than in years past. The evenings provided us with some really breathtaking sunsets. My cows all made it back to Utah and am glad that part of owning cattle is behind us. Later in the month comes weaning calves, more vaccinations (we vaccinated the first round when we got them back to Utah on Wednesday),  checking to see what cows are pregnant, and deciding which cows go to market. Oh, the joys of owning cows......... My horse, Cowboy, did a great job herding and gathering cows--this was his first year with the cows. He wanted to be right in the thick of everything! Have to say that Terry looked really good sitting on Cowboy too! Just had to throw that in for the "ick" factor for my daughters! Love you, girls! By the way, I used my new chinks while in Colorado. I got lots of cow poop on them and even some horse poop so they are officially broke in!

Colorado Objects

These are a few of the objects that caught my attention at Cow Camp this year. Maybe it's the new camera. I see things a little differently through a camera lens. There are some really interesting things out there on those 28,000+ acres...

Why We Go to Colorado Each Fall

Here are a few pictures of the cows--the reason we travel so far (about 7 hours for us in Layton), spend a ton on groceries, spend a ton on gas to get there, spend a ton on propane trying to stay warm in our trailer, eat more food than we usually consume in a two week period of time in a mere 4-5 days, freeze our hineys off, put up with getting up each morning at 5 am, collapsing into bed each night at 11 pm, sit for hours on end in a truck during an almost blinding snow storm, put up with all the mud--in your truck, in your trailer, in your hair, EVERYWHERE!, play endless card games with the family, have absouletely NO privacy for any amount of time, pee on the mountain behind a horse trailer--or possibly IN the horse trailer when people are around, have it sooooo dang cold outside that the water all freezes up and you can't shower for 2-3 days, wear so dang many clothes to stay warm that you have to start 15 minutes before you actually need to pee to get down to bare skin!, eat yummy food, have great conversations with family, enjoy the outdoors, get to see your hunky hubby on a horse with some chaps on, see some REALLY magnificent scenery and feel blessed for where we live, eat dutch oven food, eat TONS of homemade cookies and meals, laugh with your mother-in-law and feel grateful that she is a part of your life, admire your father-in-law for all that he does for each and every person in our big ol' family and to see how cute he is with his wife of 55 plus years, to witness some really beautiful sunsets and if it's not your turn to cook breakfast you get to see the sunrises, have scripture study as an extended family and to do family prayer as a large group, to see how awesome some of your nephews are--love that Dustin!, these are but a few of the reasons we go to Colorado each fall and actually look forward to it all! Looking forward to next October already!