Steers and Salt

Another day on the Ranch...
After finishing morning chores some of us saddled up and the others drove four wheelers and headed out to round up steers this morning. McKayla, a girl I had met at Merle's branding came up and helped, so it was nice to see a halfway familiar, new face! Anyway, we rounded up the steers just fine and brought them into the corral to work. This took the entire morning and then some. I vaccinated intermuscular, and everyone else had a job or two. We got all 80 or so of them done thanks to lots of help and an amazing hydraulic chute...so jealous! After we finished with them we drove them several miles (it took about two hours) to their summer pasture. They were pretty darn happy to see fresh grass, and we were pretty happy to see them go there so we didn't have to cake them every morning anymore. O, and when we moved them in we found one of our missing cows and a calf from yesterday! haha

We came back in for dinner, and then headed out to do some odds and ends. Tina and Jeff went one direction, while Merle and I loaded up the cow and calf pair. Glen went to town to get a flat tire fixed and Ross eventually went home too. After we loaded up the pair Merle said he would haul them to pasture if I could go into town and get salt. So, I filled up the hydrobed pickup with fuel and went to the Martin GE store to get a pallot of salt and 20 cobalt salt blocks (that's a whole lot of salt). When I got back home with them, no one was around because Merle had some trouble with a well...so I had the pleasure of unloading a lot of it by myself until Tina and Jeff showed up and helped me finish off the pallot of salt bags...and apparently I am no artist with stacking bags- oops. By then it was chore time, and I took care of that. Merle came and helped me finish them up. He had a meeting in town tonight so I dinked around with Joe and Ace for a while and came in and made myself grilled cheese- yum! I managed to stay busy the rest of the evening with things around the house. I really hope it rains...haven't hardly seen a decent rain since I left home- and it's not raining there either!