Yesterday Bob and I went down to the Montana border and tested a total of 65 bulls belonging to the Pinhorn Grazing Association. I guess how it works is that people pay a type of membership fee to belong to these associations and can then exercise the privileges of the membership- which includes releasing your cattle on the land that the members collectively own. They also pay a person to manage the herd! So the manager gets to ride around on his horse all day long to check and treat the herd. They apparently get full medical, dental, gas and accomodations provided as well! What a job eh??

So I met Bob at 0645 yesterday morning, we collected samples from these bulls, then I drove back to town while he napped. He LOVED this! We only got back to the ranch at 330. I then drugged that horse we've been working on, took off the bandage- which stank really bad like rotting flesh!- and then cold hosed her leg before re-bandaging it.

All in a days work!

Sleeping in this morning was a nice treat! After I got out of bed and had a shower however, I didn't get a nice treat :( The shower in the downstairs washroom has such high pressure, that the water got around the curtain and went all over the floor. I rung out a total of 5 towel fulls and 4 "sham wow" fulls of water. NOT fun!

Other than that, I've been watching TV and reading the fourth installment in the Harry Potter series. I plan to do a load of wash and head to the grocery store before the day is done.

Tomorrow is the Irvine rodeo!! I'm really excited about this!

I planned to post some pictures, however my computer doesn't like my cousin's wireless and has refused to work for me. Im going to continue trying to get it to work- until then though, no pictures. Actually, I have been taking a few pictures with my cell as well, but I some how completely screw something up and deleted a few pictures I wanted to share. One included 5 or 6 HUGE John Deere combines all in a field at the same time. That's how the hutterites roll as it turns out. Go big or go home I suppose! But really, because the hutterites are very technology savy, they tend to have the biggest and most up to date equipment on the market. So imagine seeing 5 or 6 of the biggest combines you can get side by side in a field. IT WAS SPECTACULAR! I also got a picture of one coming down the road- we had to get off the road because there just wasnt room for us both!!! It took up the whole road, EVEN THE SHOULDER!!

Anyway, there are still lots of fields around that have not been touched yet, so hopefully Ill be able to get another picture like this, and if Im lucky, maybe Ill get it with my camera instead of my phone the next time!

But until then, keep the shiny side up!

-A