Many of your comments surely do sound as though you fell quite superior to many of us, in fact you have stated it pretty clearly about me and others.

Aside from that, good for you. Fortunately, God works in mysterious ways to achieve his will and we humans are too prone to take too much credit for what little part we play in it. Sadly, doing good works and giving of ones riches in as much secrecy as possible isn't always doesn't rate high with  a lot of people.

So.......you do your branding with a wood fire. Do you rope the calves and drag them to the fire? Have wrestlers, or use Nord forks and one wrestler per calf? Lots of different ways to achieve a successful branding and cope with lack of young guys/gals able and willing to do the calf wrestling.  Not too many of us still use the wood fire with the propane stoves so convenient.

MRJ