“If you take responsibility for yourself you will develop a hunger to accomplish your dreams!”

We’ve been gathering and weaning over the past few weekends and I really love this time of year!  We keep the weaned calves in a large pen just below our house for few days for them to settle and get adjusted to life without their mom.  They also get spoiled with lots of alfalfa and “calf candy.”
Regardless of how nice we try and make it there is a lot of crying … all night long.  So, I thought I’d share with you the early morning sounds as heard from my …

Remember when you were a kid and you got a brand new pair of shoes?  The colors were vibrant, you almost didn’t want to get the soles dirty … you could run faster, jump higher!  There was just this irreplaceable, wonderful feeling you got from having a brand new pair of shoes laced snugly on your feet.
For some reason, horses don’t seem to share that zeal.Last week Cabo got his first pair of shiny new iron shoes … and he was neither amenable to the process nor appreciative of the …