Terri Blanke and Allie Fox photos
Great day for the crew as we shipped our first load of Wagyu X calves yesterday, but one month earlier and 100 lbs. lighter than usual due to current drought conditions. Drier than 2013 with only 6” of rainfall for the season, we’re trying to conserve what grass we have. Today we’re preg-checking their mothers as we begin to reduce the numbers of our cowherd.
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Tagged cowherd, Drought, shipping, Wagyu X Calves
One of the Central Valley’s most prolific writers, died at 84.
Left arm numb
I worried some
after the Covid shot.
Long wire gate
it took the two of us
to close—
guitar-string tight
well past
the railroad tie braces,
it still aches
like my father’s war
I’m still fighting.
7thArmored Division
trapped after leveling
St. Vith.
With such legacies,
how will we ever learn
to get along?
for Ken Rogers
Good entertainment, the house finches are now busy collecting nest materials that continually rain down from the rafters. This ambitious female is retrieving what she dropped. (Click the photo to enlarge.)
With so little rain, it’s not been much of a wildflower year—even the most common Fiddleneck and Brodiaea are scarce and on short stems. But we began yesterday with these Purple Chinese Houses (Collinsia heterophylla), a wild gather as we collected the last of the Wagyu X calves for their EID tags and second round of vaccinations before shipping to Snake River Farms.
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Tagged purple chinese houses, Snake River Farms, Wagyu X, wildflowers
Posted in Photographs
Mountain raised,
Colonel bred,
the old man gets the call,
show her how it feels
to really watch a cow—
to hold on
when he cracks back,
hear him nicker
under his breath
when he’s done well.
No better feeling
with your clothes on.
for Allie and Fairlea Smart Pic
(click)
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