Branding photos from Saturday

[theHiredMansWife]

Low sixties, sunny and a slight breeze. Perfect day to brand.


Ground crew all set:


Ropers picking out a good one:


Friend of ours waiting to drop the NorthFork (some years we use these, some years we don't. Depends on how many people we have). I don't know if you can see very well, but the boots he's wearing have baby pink tops. At a local WRCA a couple years ago, he came bucking out of the chute on his saddle bronc and the announcer made the point that it takes a real man to wear pink boots.


They'd trade out here and there, but we had about five ropers going at a time.


My Marlboro Man driving another nail in his coffin:


And training our oldest (it came out a bit blotchy ):


Putting it back in the stove:


The kids keeping themselves occupied (blue and pink are ours, black belongs to a good friend of ours. The boys just turned six, the girl is four)


They cheated a bit and got up close enough to just drop the rope over the calf's head:


And the best job:

Supervisor!

[Angus Cattle Shower]

Good pictures... I wish it were that nice here... the snow is melting and It's raining...

[theHiredMansWife]

My son this morning said, "Mom--I wish we could rewind days"

[passin thru]

Good pics. These remind me of something, those burners for the irons. I use em but I hate them....................too noisy. Oh to be back in the days when we built a fire.

[theHiredMansWife]

We're too dry these days to have an open fire anyway, if we can avoid it. But I guarantee the stove is a lot quieter than the generator we used for the electric irons.

[Faster horses]

Nice pictures, HMW. Looks like you have nice facilities; fences, etc.
That makes a fun job even better.

[Mrs.Greg]

Enjoyed your pictures HMW,obviously a good time was had by all.Loved what your son said,thats a keeper moment !

[Jinglebob]

Thanks for posting these. Now that I have a camera, I'll try and take some around these parts, this year and post them. First branding that is scheduled is on the 28th. I can't hardly wait.

[sw]

Aint nothin better than a branding, gee I have to agree with you for once.

[ranchwife]

what??? No pictures of the food or the beer??
Mighty fine looking crew (especially the ones in the blue and pink )...maybe they should find some free time around the 29th of April to join us in our branding!!

[Hanta Yo]

WOOHOO!!!! I love branding in the spring! I don't have to cook This is the last year I will do so much traveling, maybe next year I can make it to some brandings

[Silver]

Thanks for posting the great pics, HMW. Can't wait for branding here. I agree with you, branding is my favorite holliday too.