Weekend in review

[Soapweed]

Greenery

Gray day

Damp day

Saddletramp in the slough

A bit boggy

A friend and Peach Blossom doing domestic duties

A gander with Gander

Cloudy back drop

Marching down the trail

Gander taking a breather

Forward, March

Left face

Right face

Looking at the far hills

View from on top

Getting close to home

View to the west

Just fooling around

The Incognito Kid

A little girl calf

A pretty good calf

Assembling at the windmill

The hat and the cat

Deep concentration

A well deserved rest after all of that deep contemplating

 

[cutebabymaker]

Nice pics Soapweed :wink:
I like the cloud ones.. :nod:

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

"A friend and Peach Blossom doing domestic duties"

Are you sure? they sure do look alot alike. Same smile and eyes and facial shape. Could be sisters.

thanks for takin us along on your weekend Soapweed. Always a pleasure lookin at your photos.

 

[nr]

For some reason your windmill pictures are always appealing-
maybe the vertical against all the horizontal? Or architectural against natural?
If you happen to have your camera when a storm is coming I'd like to see one sometime with
the windmill's silvery-gray blades against an indigo blue storm cloud background. Bet that would be pretty. Just don't get hit by lightening for art's sake!

But I don't know about those pictures of the cow trying to show her best profile- only on Ranchersnet would there be pictures like that ! LOL :roll: :wink:

 

[Shortgrass]

Hi Soapweed--Enjoy your pictures. Takes me back a few(to put it mildly)years. I worked in the Sandhills for a man named MgGiness or something similiar to that under a manager named Lininbrink near Merriman. Went to a Methodist Church there and a lady gave me a 3 piece suit that had belonged to her deceased husband--I'll bet she was some kin of yours. Understand your love of the sandhills--finest cow country God made out of doors. I have a place east of Pikes Peak on the prarie. Raise commercial Charolais. Left face & Right face caught my attention. I like cattle pictures. You seem to be well mounted most of the time.

 

[Soapweed]

Hi Soapweed--Enjoy your pictures. Takes me back a few(to put it mildly)years. I worked in the Sandhills for a man named MgGiness or something similiar to that under a manager named Lininbrink near Merriman. Went to a Methodist Church there and a lady gave me a 3 piece suit that had belonged to her deceased husband--I'll bet she was some kin of yours. Understand your love of the sandhills--finest cow country God made out of doors. I have a place east of Pikes Peak on the prarie. Raise commercial Charolais. Left face & Right face caught my attention. I like cattle pictures. You seem to be well mounted most of the time.

It would have been the McGinley Ranch where you worked. Vince Linenbrink was running the northeast part of that place, and I'm guessing that is where you were living. Ted Turner owns that ranch now, and it is stocked with buffalo. Jess McGinley and his wife, Doris, have both passed on, and so has Vince. Vince's wife, Betty, lives to the northeast of us about fifteen miles.

The Methodist church where you attended is the one I grew up going to. It was started well over a hundred years ago, and my great-grandparents were some of the charter members. The church ran out of constituents a few years ago, and now exists in building form only. We go to the Victory Bible Church, which meets in the old VFW building and has services on Sunday evenings.

Time seems to march right along.

 

[efb]

Well, I guess we know who was " just fool'n around" from the shape of his hat. Could have been "ghost rider", or "just a shadow of a man"

Those cream colored calves look like they are out of Char bulls, but I didn't think you ran any. All your calves sure are fleshy. Do you creep them any, or is your grass just that strong? Also, someone asked about the bay Saddletramp was riding awhile back and I didn't notice any comment about him. I didn't think I had noticed a bay in your string either.

Boy, I sure enjoy you taking us along. For all of us that would like to be where you are but can't for one reason or another. Great job. Thanks.

 

[Faster horses]

Good pictures, Soap. Lots of green still in your country. Sure does keep
those old cows milking. Big, soggy calves, EPD's or no EPD's :wink: . They are going to press the scale down hard.

efb, it was I that asked about the bay. SaddleTramp sent me a PM and that bay is his own 4-year old and he seems to like him a lot.
Glad I'm not the only one that notices these things!

The recent rain is greening things up around here too. We are thankful.

 

[kwebb]

Soapweed:

Thanks for the few minutes of downright pleasure. I really enjoy your photo essays and the little quips after the pics usually get me chuckling. On this one the marching on, right face, left face deal choked me up.

But, I am a little curious about your cattle breeds.

Looks like some black angus, some reds, and then those calves look a little Charolais. What are they?

Thanks!

Kevin

 

[Denny]

You sure got some good calves there.even the colored one's :wink: