B&W Branding https://reddirtinmysoul.com/20....24/04/22/bw-branding

More Branding – Kids Kids. They’re *so close* to not needing backup, but it was still there… They took on every job, marking calves, wrestling calves, keeping the fire and irons hot, even vaccinating and branding! Not much is more appealing than to see these young ranchers take their children and neighbor’s children and help them hold calves successfully...
https://reddirtinmysoul.com/20....24/04/21/more-brandi

First Branding First branding is in the books… 231 photos later… prepare yourself for an onslaught of pictures! Thanks to our neighbors who show up and work hard for just a meal!
https://reddirtinmysoul.com/20....24/04/20/first-brand

Reminiscing XXI This story is from James Greet, written in 1991 about his life as a cowboy in the 1940’s. (continued) The Big Dipper rotates counter clockwise around the North Star. In the early days, the “night hawk” men used it as a timepiece to know when to change the guard. The wise men of the East...
https://reddirtinmysoul.com/20....24/04/19/reminiscing

Throwback Thursday: Busy Season, v.2.0 This was first published April 24, 2014. If you couldn’t tell… we’ve been busy around here. We’ve been kicking cows out into our badlands pasture.  It is a LONG walk for little bitty baby calves, and for my horse and my dog and for ME!  (Don’t mind that my camera didn’t open all the way…...
https://reddirtinmysoul.com/20....24/04/18/throwback-t