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!