3rd Twin Kicked Off By Its Mom. Darn These Fertile Angus. Season Just Started.

Close up of a gopher snake I found near the shed! Little longer than 5 feet. It caused me to pause just a minute! 4/29/19

End of a long day. Relaxing watching heifers and their first calves. I am blessed. Pulled 3 calves this season. 1 dead curly leg and breach, 1 dead breach, 1 alive and doing well! 3 sets of twins with 2 now on nurse cows while the third is a sneak thief stealing from the mama cows until we can catch it! Life has a rhythm here that city folks kinda miss. 2/19/19

The Butcherbird strikes again! These hunter birds are fascinating to me. South Texas is a major flyway for a number of northern birds. Most Loggerhead Strike spend the summer in the far North nesting and growing strong for their Autumn voyage south to Texas. This bird is still here or already here. I've not seen it but here is the evidence. 8/9/19

‘Texas alfalfa’ aka Red root pig weed! The bane of farmers! The love of ranchers! Colloquial name? Careless weed! It could care less where it grows! This is growing in a neighbor’s wheat field. They don’t last long on the ranch!

My sister’s hand holding a 4 ½" point. All the rain washed the ranch road alittle. I found this sticking out of the mud. Recently asked for its ID, its supposed to be a Williams point 2000 to 4000 years old.

Milk Thistle. Beautiful really. Not so good for grazing fields. Its seed supposedly cleanses the liver and contains antioxidants of some kind. It can be steamed and eaten as a green from what I hear.

Hard to play hide and seek when you’re a cow!

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Milk Thistle in South Texas BEFORE weed shredding!

My one and only cat post on Tumblr for cat lovers in Russia. South Texas cats! @russiawave @russiansandgod @smzett