Ranch Pictures - Final Spring Branding

[OH58D]

I figured the General Discussion needed a break from all the gloom and doom, so here's some pictures from this week of our final Spring branding before moving the the herd to Summer grazing areas. The day after these pics were taken, a 17,000 acre prairie fire broke out east of here (lightning caused) near our eastern mesas. None of our land was burned, but we changed focus for a while:

Yours Truly roping a beast for branding

My Mrs. supervising the operation. The wife and I were using the same horse that day

The wife doing inoculation duties

More roping action during branding. That is a female in this image, and our local Veterinarian

My granddaughter Annika on the ranch for the Summer. The woman with her daughter behind the fence is Navajo Indian, and the wife of our Navajo Wrangler

[AndyLate]

Thank you for the reminder that life is actually normal for most of us.

I grew up in cow country and made a few dollars helping out at some branding and cattle drives.

In honor of your pics, I'm wearing my Tony Lama Black Label boots - made in the US and a bargain at their outlet store because no one wanted well made boots that are plain brown leather.

Andy

[OH58D]

Thank you for the reminder that life is actually normal for most of us.

I grew up in cow country and made a few dollars helping out at some branding and cattle drives.

In honor of your pics, I'm wearing my Tony Lama Black Label boots - made in the US and a bargain at their outlet store because no one wanted well made boots that are plain brown leather.

Andy

Boots out here in rural New Mexico can be a fashion statement, and we have 'em in colors like green, red and everything else imaginable. Take a look at picture #1 and the cowboy on the far right....Lime Green boots, with working spurs as well.

[Adrenaline_6]

Nice. Thanks for sharing the pics. I miss horse riding. Did it a bunch when I was a kid and loved it. My uncle (grandfathers brother in-law) who had his own ranch in Kaua'i dropped off a horse for me when I was 12 since I loved horses so much. Left some feed, told me how to take care of her, left a blanket to ride on, and left a rope and showed me how to ride using it. (just a double granny knot around the nose - he called it a punuku - not sure what its called anywhere else). I rode every day the whole summer and took care of the horse. Fun times and a summer forever ingrained in my memory.

[OH58D]

Here's an interesting picture from this week of one of our wranglers and his little girl. This cowboy is married to a Cheyenne Arapaho Indian from Oklahoma and his 5 year old daughter loves to help daddy out. She's a natural ranch hand. Sometimes the mix of White Anglo and Native American produces a real pretty young lady:

[jsbhike]

Very cool!

What kind of trees are in the background?

[markm]

Here's a pic I took a few weeks back at the branding out on the Ranch where we shoot long range.

[OH58D]

Very cool!

What kind of trees are in the background?

Elm along the fence line, mixed with Cottonwood. The native vegetation in the background is One Seed Juniper and Rocky Mountain Juniper.

[flenna]

Thanks for sharing. That is what being an American is about- family, working hard and living honestly.

[OH58D]

Here's a pic I took a few weeks back at the branding out on the Ranch where we shoot long range.

Ah yes, a Palo Verde tree in the holding pen, found in the Sonoran Desert. Looks like anywhere between Phoenix, Tucson and on down towards Sierra Vista.