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Sorting heavies with a mule, February 24, 2009

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Soapweed

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Mighty mule
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Brady and Rena
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I should have rode in the middle
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Enjoying a shirtsleeve day in February
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He hasn't bucked me off yet.
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Sorting heavies
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Bringing one out
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Brady
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Rena
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Man and a mule
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Sundown, a windmill, and some trees
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A horse is a horse, of course.
 
Kinda looks like someone got sweet talked out of their camera! :lol: Altho it is good to see that you ain't forgot how to handle the regular work !!:wink:....... ....sure hope you didn't go into cold sweats or finger twitching........ signs of Sony withdrawal syndrome :P :lol: :lol:
 
Richard Doolittle said:
Did Peach and Sunflower quit you when Brady and Rena showed up?? :wink:
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Sunflower has been painting several rooms in the house. The two gals put down new flooring in a bathroom. They have been busy feeding hay, making ear tags, and doing other ranch type details. Today a couple electricians came out to do some work, and Peach kept them lined out with different projects. Seems like we are all busy, but since I'm the oldest, they take pity on me and let me have the fun jobs. :wink:
 
Great pictures as usual Soapweed - you must have a huge herd as you seem to be sorting off heavies everyday and still never getting finished - or do you let them all join back up again at night so there's more cowboyin' to do the next day? :wink:
 
Grassfarmer said:
Great pictures as usual Soapweed - you must have a huge herd as you seem to be sorting off heavies everyday and still never getting finished - or do you let them all join back up again at night so there's more cowboyin' to do the next day? :wink:
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It isn't all that big of a herd, but I just like to sort. :wink: The herd is too big though, to have them all up close at once for calving. I like to sort each outlying bunch about every four days. If I try to sort just once a week, too many cows get missed and they calve where the protection is not all that good. Some get missed anyway. :?

Shortgrass said:
I thought the mule was sold. There I go thinking again.
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He was "for sale" but no one ever came to look at him. The mule worked so good today that I called up the most interested potential buyer and took the mule off the market. I will just have to keep him where he can't kill any calves. I've been looking all my life for a mule this nice; now that I finally found him it would be hard to let him go. :roll: :-)

Northern Rancher said:
Is that mule real smooth to ride-he strikes me as being being a pretty nice traveler.
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The mule has a very fast walk and a smooth trot and lope. Although he doesn't really "watch" a cow just yet, he reins and maneuvers well enough that sorting heavy cows worked out nicely. He travels faster and "differently" than a horse.

Peach and I took our three little kids on a sixty mile wagon trip back in 1989 (the Kosmo Kid was only four months old). We had a buggy with a pair of saddle-type mules pulling it. There were four other wagons pulled by draft horses on the trip. Our mules traveled much faster, even though they were just walking, so we waited at each gate until the others could catch up.
 
Soapweed said:
Richard Doolittle said:
Did Peach and Sunflower quit you when Brady and Rena showed up?? :wink:
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Sunflower has been painting several rooms in the house. The two gals put down new flooring in a bathroom. They have been busy feeding hay, making ear tags, and doing other ranch type details. Today a couple electricians came out to do some work, and Peach kept them lined out with different projects. Seems like we are all busy, but since I'm the oldest, they take pity on me and let me have the fun jobs. :wink:
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I figured they had something else keeping them busy. I'd just noticed that other than the birthday party, they haven't been in front of the camera much lately.
 
WyomingRancher said:
I love your mule's forelock :lol: . My hair looks like everyday too!
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I saw a gal (good friend) with hair like that and was going to ask if she had done that to her hair or was it the wind. The wife gave me that "you better not" look. I think she had done it on purpose!
 
Shortgrass said:
WyomingRancher said:
I love your mule's forelock :lol: . My hair looks like everyday too!
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I saw a gal (good friend) with hair like that and was going to ask if she had done that to her hair or was it the wind. The wife gave me that "you better not" look. I think she had done it on purpose!
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An old friend that we lost a couple of years ago was known as "One Liner Howie". In the morning he would tell his wife that she looked beautiful and then ask if she had done her hair with the eggbeater.
His death was not suspicious.
 
It looks like you had a nice day to work cattle Soapweed. We got 6 inches of snow yesterday and it is -20 F here this morning. Thankfully, our early heifers are staying in one piece.
 
gcreekrch said:
It looks like you had a nice day to work cattle Soapweed. We got 6 inches of snow yesterday and it is -20 F here this morning. Thankfully, our early heifers are staying in one piece.
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Same here gcreek, must had been a big system. I am ready for spring.

Soapweed, I wish you a very merry calving season. :-) My teenage girls had quite the chuckle over your mules "Cow Lick".
 

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