Thoughts as we drive home!

I wrote this as we were driving home from Oklahoma.

Driving through some two lane road in Oklahoma, it saddens me to see where there had been working ranches and now there is massive subdivisions with the the past ranch name on it.  I have been thinking lately how is it possible that the average American is two generations removed from either family farm or agriculture.  Of course while at Star Lake there were rumors of what was going to happen to the land, whether some one bought it for ranch or development, I don't know.  But, Monte Soules did say something that caught my attention, these kids are better off being raised on a ranch with the opportunity to be Hereford breeders.  This is not word for word, but close.  So will Hubby and I keep taking our kids out of school for cattle events? You bet your ass!  As one Illinois Hereford Grandma told me on Saturday, this is a family, not a genetic family, but still a family.
Ok, enough of my ramblings.

I am trying to upload pictures, but not working.

Herefords and more Herefords!

We are in Oklahoma at Star Lake Ranch in Skitook, which is about ten minutes from Owasso, which is another 15 minutes from Tulsa.  How did we get here, well Hubby made the decision in July that if it was going to be the end of Star Lake, then we were going, plus Boy 1 had been here 3 times!  We loaded up and were rolling by 6:30am n Thursday and got here at 2:30pm.  Yes, that was with only one stop for fuel. I packed lunch for us and snacks, trying to make this as cheap as possible.  As we got into Oklahoma there was this haze, since neither Hubby or I have spent very long here we thought it was smoke from some kind of wild fire, it was NOT, it was a dust storm, we looked at cattle anyway with howling winds and dust hitting us like little pellets, we looked at cattle.  Boy 1 has drooled all over Shock and Awe, for those of you who don't know Herefords this is a bull that Boy 1 has loved and would love for him to be in our pasture, but we said NO! Matt, he even got his picture taken with him!! My grandparents did not leave as early so they got here about 5pm, yep here we are the 8 of us we range in age from 74 to 3!  We are having a blast today, Boy 1 and Princess partnered up and bought a set of embryos, their very own.  Guess who was the thinker behind that endeavor?  The sale started today at 10:45 and finished at 6;40pm, there was no half time or seventh inning stretch, but I just keep thinking, this is Hereford History.  It is like when my grandfather talks about when John Wayne had Hereford Cattle that it was one of the greatest, we just want to share great Herefords with our kids and right now this is it.

To take a line from one of our NJHA members, I know this is not word for word, what if there is not a tomorrow!  Just goes with our life: Kids, Calves and Krazyness.

Good Night From Oklahoma:)

Pans and Pot Roast!

Look at this Pot Roast...what's different about it?  Everything in it is from the farm, right here from the farm!  Look at that beef, raised here,  and those potatoes and the carrots and there is a glorious onion under neath all of that.  How did I make it?  Quarter one onion, peel the potatoes, wash and peel carrots, put roast in put all veggies in add about 1/2 cup water. Put crock pot on low let that baby cook for 7-8 hours! OOOHHLAALAA!!

Now that is not the only pans I was in a day!

Can you guess which feed pan belongs to her?

And one last picture, last night at 7:30pm after homework was done, food was gone and heifers were out, on the way to his room to read I said "Starlake Videos are online"!  This is where he was until 8:30p.  notice the sale catalog, the pen, the computer...that's my baby!

He's not going to be happy with his momma on this picture:)

Have A Great Day:)

Boring Weekend!!

Just another weekend of soccer, soccer, soccer, Down Country, church, reconciliation meeting, burning and normal cow stuff!

Nothing really exciting like last weekend, kinda boring in comparison, but boring is so much better than  vets before breakfast!

I did have the opprotunity to listen and speak with Sean J. Smith, a professor at KU, I was apart of an iPad training with reading and comprehension, it was great.  If you ever be e chance I highly recommend!

Today is Monday, laundry day, catch up day for me.  Hubby is in the field round baling corn stalks.  Why corn stalks, with the drought tis summer there was not enough hay an he would rather have corn stalks than nothing.  He can also grind the bales in the grinder/mixer with corn, oats as another irk of feed stuffs to hav a little extra energy during long cold spells this winter.  Or I really think Hubby just likes to bale!!