Salt and Mineral

This mornings chores were fine. I had them finished by the time most everyone made it down. The bucket calves are still a bit unhappy but seem to be surviving! haha, poor little guys. Other than that things were pretty normal.

Today was another wet, drizzly day (well at least this morning) so Merle and I set out to string salt and mineral and Tina and Jeff went out to check on wells and fix a few. We all spent the morning doing that and came in for dinner at one or so. Sharla had made some very tasty pasta- yum! After dinner, Tina and Jeff built some new salt troughs and Merle and I loaded up another 25 bags of salt and 25 of mineral and a few cobalt blocks and headed out. I really like stringing salt and mineral because you get to see the cattle and the country...and it's not a tough job. We moved a few troughs here and there and I even kicked up a mouse nest out of one, but other than that- there was nothing too terribly exciting that happened. We went through the timber reserve pasture and on a day like today it was pretty muddy but very beautiful! We had some spots where we had to cut branches and even hooked a dead tree onto the pickup and pulled it out of the trail once- dang that Ford looks good pullin' a tree:) Throughout the day we saw a few white tails, some elk (really cool), lots of turkeys and chicks, pelicans, and antelope. Now, too see that all in one place is pretty darn cool.

By this afternoon the clouds finally broke into sun (seven days later)! That was nice, but the rain we sure good too. By the time we made it back we unloaded the few bags we had left and did chores. I ate some leftovers at the other place tonight and now I'm headed off to get some sleep. Not sure what's in store for tomorrow~:)