Ranchy
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Here are a few I've taken over the past week, and thought I'd share.
On Tuesday and Wednesday, we went down to Ranch Days, which is dubbed as the largest agricultural classroom in our county (of course, it's the only one, but that's not the point). These folks are doing their durndest to educate the youngsters about what ranching and agriculture really are, not what the bureaucrats and envirofreaks want them to think they are. There were 20 different booths, ranging from a Cannulated Cow from New Mexico State University, to Dowsing, to ATV Safety put on by the County Sheriff's Department, Landscape and Watershed by the BLM, Brands and Branding, the 4-H Shooting Sports Trailer, a Mobile Dairy Classroom brought by Shamrock Farms, Wool Felting, Dutch Oven Biscuits & Homemade butter, and they had a mule named Scarlet who they let the kids try packing. Our 4-H group got together, and put on a presentation showing what ranching really is, a few facts about ranchers, agriculture and wound up the 15 minute session with a Q&A for the kids.
I got to do the butter making booth, so didn't get many pics of Al and his friend Benjie, who were actually putting on the booth, From Our Families Ranches To Your Families Tables. Here they're talking to a bunch of 6th graders the first day.
Rabies Clinic and Bake Sale yesterday (the kids made $77 on the bake sale, the County Council gets $1 per vaccination, but lost track of how many they did here........they did the north end of the county yesterday, today is the south end)
Bandita, this morning:
Wheezy at the breakfast table:
Blackie and Reddy this morning:
Hubby on Peachy, his cousin Joe riding Alex, Al on Rocky and Snip behind, ready to go try to gather a few strays from the neighbors:
Headed off to make a day of it:
On Tuesday and Wednesday, we went down to Ranch Days, which is dubbed as the largest agricultural classroom in our county (of course, it's the only one, but that's not the point). These folks are doing their durndest to educate the youngsters about what ranching and agriculture really are, not what the bureaucrats and envirofreaks want them to think they are. There were 20 different booths, ranging from a Cannulated Cow from New Mexico State University, to Dowsing, to ATV Safety put on by the County Sheriff's Department, Landscape and Watershed by the BLM, Brands and Branding, the 4-H Shooting Sports Trailer, a Mobile Dairy Classroom brought by Shamrock Farms, Wool Felting, Dutch Oven Biscuits & Homemade butter, and they had a mule named Scarlet who they let the kids try packing. Our 4-H group got together, and put on a presentation showing what ranching really is, a few facts about ranchers, agriculture and wound up the 15 minute session with a Q&A for the kids.
I got to do the butter making booth, so didn't get many pics of Al and his friend Benjie, who were actually putting on the booth, From Our Families Ranches To Your Families Tables. Here they're talking to a bunch of 6th graders the first day.
Rabies Clinic and Bake Sale yesterday (the kids made $77 on the bake sale, the County Council gets $1 per vaccination, but lost track of how many they did here........they did the north end of the county yesterday, today is the south end)
Bandita, this morning:
Wheezy at the breakfast table:
Blackie and Reddy this morning:
Hubby on Peachy, his cousin Joe riding Alex, Al on Rocky and Snip behind, ready to go try to gather a few strays from the neighbors:
Headed off to make a day of it:
