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Tag Archives: cattle ranch
SHADES OF MY BLUE HEIFER…
Having a herd of cows can cause you some worries, like when it doesn’t rain, or when they climb through the fences and take up camping six miles away on the local golf course, or at any one of a million other times – but sometimes they sure give you a good laugh!
Our first time heifers have begun to calve… Continue reading
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Tagged cattle ranch, Grapevine Canyon, guest ranch, horse riding, horses, round-up, the cowboy life, trail ride, trail riding
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Friendship Does Not Wither
A trustworthy horse can provide invaluable therapy for people caught up in a hectic pace. Riding can help a person shed stress and stop the mental conversations that cause it. Few experiences equal a trail ride in the fresh air, especially if there is gorgeous scenery.… There is nothing quite like a rein-swinging walk to lull a person back into natural rhythms; nothing like a brisk trot with its metronome-like… Continue reading
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Tagged cattle ranch, Cowgirl Camp, desert southwest, dogs, Grapevine Canyon, guest ranch, horse riding, horses, nature, ranch life
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Games Animals Play
I think I mentioned before that I have now inherited the bookkeeper’s job at Grapevine, as well as doing the books for the cattle ranch, and that sure keeps me busy! I had forgotten just how much fiddling around there is to bookkeeping, and more so since Quick Books had deemed it necessary to make their program more efficient by making it more complicated! At the cattle ranch I have… Continue reading
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Tagged cattle ranch, Grapevine Canyon, guest ranch, horse riding, horses, Pinos Altos, ranch life, round-up, the cowboy life
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Ah, those Indian Cows!
You are likely quite sick of hearing about our green grass, but as a final comment on it, let me just say that we had the summer round up a whole month later than we should have had it because of the muddy corrals, and, because of the delay and the rains, the late calves we branded were probably 100 lbs heavier than we had expected. Not a bad problem to have, of course, except that the little bulls were far too developed to be castrated, and so will have to be sold, when the brands dry up, in October, as bulls instead of steers – so generating a lower price. There is always a drawback, it seems! But even as I sit here writing this, the ones we sent off this week are probably being loaded onto the buyers’ trucks in Willcox, and on Tuesday we will get the check and see just exactly what they brought. Continue reading
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Tagged Arizona History, cattle ranch, desert rains, desert southwest, dogs, Grapevine Canyon, guest ranch, horse riding, horses, ranch life, round-up, the cowboy life
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Masquerading Cheese
It seems that every year the dates of the annual round up come earlier and earlier – or is that a sign of age?? Actually, this year the date has come earlier, as we moved our spring gather forward. Consequently we will be branding calves a month sooner than usual, and then, later in the year, selling them a month sooner also, hoping to beat the rush to market by the rest of the ranching community. Continue reading
Time of Many Fruits
Well, here we are again at that magic time of what the Apaches called “Time of Many Fruits”, and which we, less poetically, know as “Fall” – and with it comes the fall round up, starting this coming Monday. We will gather the pastures, bring in the cows and calves, and take all the steers and some of the heifers to the cattle auction. Normally we keep back about 20-30 Continue reading
Round Up!
Dear Friends,
If you think you haven’t heard from me for a long while you’re right.
First of all we had our normal November round up, complicated this year by the fact that we had decided not to sell the calves in October due to the bad market prices, but took the advice of our sale Continue reading
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Tagged brangus, cattle ranch, guest ranch, horses, round-up, team penning, Thanksgiving
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Rain!
Dear Friends,
So what’s new!!
The most wonderful thing has happened here in the desert – it’s raining! Those of you living in climates such as Denmark or Germany or England, or anywhere else in the world where it rains as a matter of course (and the trees Continue reading
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Tagged arizona wild flowers, cattle ranch, mesquite trees, monsoon rain, nature
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