Paregien Ranch 12-12-12

A lucky day for us, we managed to get our calves branded at the Paregien Ranch just before the rain. Clarence, Zach and Douglas went up the hill early to sort the cattle and get the fire started before the rest of us arrived. Between vaccinating, keeping the cook fire going and setting-up her kitchen, Robbin managed to get a few photos. We ate in the rain, and as much as we all would have liked to sit around the fire and visit, we had to get off the hill before the roads got too slick. Thanks, as always, to our neighbors (in order of the last photo) Clarence Holdbrooks, Virginia and Kenny McKee, Tony Rabb, Douglas Thomason, Zach Shaver, Jody Fuller, Chuck Fry and Brent Huntington (Spencer Jensen was headed down the hill to pick his kids up at school)—and we all give thanks for the half-inch rain.