It's A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Except for the part where it is still hot & dee-are-why, DRY! It is a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Why? Well for starters, we have been very fortunate to not have our property burned to a crisp by the fire Labor Day weekend. It was super scary & we are very thankful for the firefighters who did such a tremendous job & ultimately tamed that beast & a favorable wind that pushed the fire away from us. Said wind was not helpful at all to others & certainly made fighting the fire that much more difficult. The picture to the right is of a tree that the wind took out. I'm sure age & drought gave it a good start in weakening its trunk & the wind finished it off. None of the leaves went to waste & you can see an eager eater foraging for any green leaves that might be left. You can also see from the brown ground that the trees & weeds are the only green things we have on this place right now!
It is also cooling off a little. Kinda funny to consider it cooler when you aren't hitting the 100 degree temperature mark until well into the afternoon instead of by 10am. I'm gonna need a sweater if we ever hit 80! Dang that will be chilly. There is a small chance of rain soon, but I'll believe that when I'm outside soaking wet & not sweating. Otherwise.....
I love catching the calves doing their cattle guard grazing. There is always a little green grass under them & those little ones can still fit their noses through to get some of that tasty grass. Caught these kiddos while I was feeding the horses. Had to run them off shortly after this picture though because my little heifer girls were waiting for their breakfast.


Speaking off my heifer girls. I heard strange noises in the carport & found these two thieves in the night to be the culprits. Guess they wanted a bedtime snack & couldn't open the cookie jar since they don't have thumbs. I just gave them the can of range cubes since there weren't many left & it was mostly crumbs. Don't know what I'm going to do. I need to figure out some way to keep them out of the carport since Miss 48 has already put a nice dent in my rear fender. Rat fink cows!! What to do, what to do. I'll be kicking them out of their current pasture soon anyway as they will be graduating to join the big herd of commercial cattle. Come Spring, they'll get their chance at being mommies & I'll have a new crop of freshly weaned babies to get to know & spoil as rotten as these girls.

Here we have Dog grooming Miss BB. She was taking a little siesta while Dog fixed her hair for her. So cute to see them like this. BB is getting so big & I'm gonna miss that little varmint next month when I put her out in the pasture with the big girls as it will be time to wean her. I'll leave her out there long enough to break her 6 bottle a day habit & then bring her back into my young heifer herd. She's too young to hang out with the big girls anyway. They'll do nothing but teach her about boys, how to fuss & cuss & probably how to smoke & play bridge. Not all of that knowledge is helpful to young little ladies.
We will be working cattle within the next few weeks now that WB is done with his treatments for his back. I hope to keep him from doing too much when we work the cows, but there is only so much I can do. The physical exercise is good for him, but I don't want him to overdo & it's easy to forget that he's 80 when he can do 10+ times what most people his age can do. Getting all the cows worked is going to be quite the task, but it needs doing & that is also when I'll kick the BeeBs out of the yard.
OK - off to finish up laundry before figuring out a plan on what to make for dinner.