glacier!

                                    We’re back from our vacation in Montana and I haven’t updated this blog in a while, so here’s a photo from our trip!

                                     It’s from the Iceberg Lake Trail, Many Glacier, Glacier National Park, Montana.

 

 

      …and here’s a panorama from the Iceberg Lake Trail!

i heart faces challenge: celebrating teens

                                                      This weeks challenge features teens. Here’s a photo of my teenage friend and her horse.

 

                                                                                                          

kittens!

                                 Skittles, a cat at our farm, had kittens about three weeks ago. They are really cute right now. She had them in

                                  an unused calf hut, taking advantage of the nice straw bedding. By the way, they are looking for a home!

 

                                     This is Klondike. He’s a boy.

 

                                This is Tootsie. He’s a boy too.

 

                              Here’s another boy, Snickerdoodles.

 

                                Finally, the only girl is Carmel.

i heart faces: play

                                Mom and Dad at play! They had fun imitating the “American Gothic” painting. My Dad loves making funny faces.

 

sadie

A week ago we had a red heifer calf born on our farm, which is pretty rare for us. Out of 800 animals probably six of them are red.

Sadie parents, Destry and Sasha, are both red carriers, but are not red themselves. Since they both carry the red gene there was about a 25%

chance that their calf would be red, so that means there was about a 12% chance that we would get a red heifer calf. And we did!

Her name is Sadie and she is so cute. She has big long ears, and the brightest eyes with a lighter shade of red around them? Her white hair is

bright and provides a beautiful contrast to her auburn coat!  Sadie is a really smart little calf too, she is a very good eater.

i heart faces: faces & flowers photo challenge

                                             My Mom and Dad are fun to photograph. They naturally bring out the smiles in each other!

 

                                                                             Click on the button  for more great face and flower photos!

awww-drey

                                     I was very excited to get five calves out of my cow Ara in the past week. They are the result embryo transfer.

                                    I own Ara with my brother Ethan. We ended up with two bulls, Ace and Ariat,  and three heifers, Audrey, Anna, and Alexis.

                                   Audrey is my favorite. She’s such a cutie. I call her Awwwwwwww-drey.