Yep, it's that time of year again......

Snow's melting.......



A fresh, new calf is born......



Reliable hens are making breakfast.......



Colorful, aren't they?

It's dinnertime!









This was the sweet pea that I found this early morning......



Six new babies were born here today.

Ancestry of Cows

Lady is Sally's calf

and Skyline, Sally's mother.

From there, Anything, then Spot--

geneology of cows

repeated to describe a temperment

as if decades on a place

means identity.

When Lucy kicks the hired hand

across the barn

a farmer can only say,

no wonder, considering her mother

and her grandmother--

Lucy's short for Lucifer --

it's in the blood.

Most people see nothing

from the ground up,

but old farmers can repeat

a milk cow's pedigree

like words to a favorite jingle,

what's lacking nowadays, they say,

is that kind of continuity.

~Anita Tanner

From the book....

Leaning into the Wind

(women write from the heart of the west)

By the way.....we're ranchers, not farmers.

And we raise Herefords, not milk cows,

but the ancestry is all the same.

S. named his new bull calf "Malibu."

I asked why, and he said it's the car he's buying.