It's that time a year again to start doing deer counts. This is where we go out an and get a buck:Doe ratio and see how many deer are on X amount of acres for management purposes. We love to go! It's way more fun riding around the ranch for 2 hours with a goal:)
Papa Jones called the other day and said Jones' cow Starr had her baby! Grammy sent us a pic and as soon Jones saw the baby he named him Boots, ha! He had watched Dora for the first time that day and I'm pretty sure Boots inspired him that day:)
One of the elk in the back pens has been trying to pass her baby for a week. We saw little hooves hanging out of her and was hoping she could pass it herself. We knew the baby wasn't alive so we let nature takes its course. After a week, something needed to be done. Cody bought some of those LONG gloves.........We went with him just in case he needed help. Jones was a lot of help! Unfortunately nothing could be done and we lost mom and baby......
Our town has a week long celebration every year for the rodeo. We have a pretty great rodeo in Woodward. On Tuesday the week before the rodeo the town has a cattle drive through town. The ranch that has the longhorns are probably about 5 miles from the arena so they drive em' in with their horses and buggies and they go all out! Jones loves it!
Jones was super excited for the rodeo and was not patient the day off. So we spent most of our day outside to keep his mind off of it and to wear him out so he would go down for a nap....so he would be in a better mood that night because it was going to be a late night:)
The nap was a success and then we got ready and off we went! I wanted a cute outfit for the rodeo so I headed up town during J's nap time and shopped. We have 2 options in this town....Walmart and a very expensive boutique. I went to the boutique and OMG..............10 years ago I would have spent 300 dollars on a dress but I just cannot do that anymore......for sanity reasons! So I just came home empty handed and wished Loft or the Gap were a lot closer, got on fb and realized how many selfish, materialistic, flashy people were on that day and patted myself on the back for not buying what I wanted.
Jones looked so handsome. I got him dressed in his cowboy boots and jeans and his pearl snap like his daddy's. When he saw Cody put on his cowboy hat, he had to have his! His is a little to small but it worked for the night!
He loved the whole rodeo. He was in awe and hollered and cheered the whole time! He didn't know what to think of the little kids on the sheep. He thought they were getting hurt:(
We drove in the driveway about 11 and was so excited Jones lasted the whole time like a little champ and didn't fuss once. It was the best rodeo! It had rained all week and the temps were in the 80's. After the rain the sky was sooooo blue and the clouds looked fake. It was a beautiful sight, beautiful day and beautiful night!
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