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Days gone by! Drank a few sodas here back in the day.
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
A Texas toad hiding under the cattle guard. South Texas is home to critters!
The prickly pear is blooming in South Texas! Red is not very common. Love it here!
The boss lady leading 2 nurse cows and 6 orphans with feed! Beautiful day!
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
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.
A new nurse! The sweet heart is half Holstein and half Jersey and 6 years old. It took her a day or two but she accept her first charge. These Angus have twins with some regularity so a nurse cow is a good thing! Two nurse cows with 3 'kicked off' calves so far. 012919
Our nurse cow had her calf! My sister had to chain the little one as he was a big boy and a tight fit! Elsie later accepted a twin too...one less calf to mix a bottle for morning and evening. A Jersey, Elsie is a former dairy animal and has lots of fatty milk for orphans. Raising two a year is the norm and they are most often a twin kicked off by its mom. 1/19
Collard greens from my garden! Bacon grease and salt make this the perfect side dish! Winter Garden South Texas!
Found this out walking! Tentatively identified as a Plainview projectile. 9000 to 10,000 yrs old.
First calf for this heifer! She calved easily basically 'spat' it out! Much better than us tugging on it! 50 heifers to go. Hope they are all as easy!
Three spoiled brats! But I love them!
Feeding at the home place 111018.
We have had almost 17 " in 3 weeks. Lots of fungi out and about. Not our normal.
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.
Folks south Texas is having a major rain event! 10 to 15 inches in two weeks! Amazing!
My g-g-grandfather’s brother John Slaughter as in Texas John Slaughter. I got roots ‘round these parts. Thanks to another Tumblr-er for the photo.
Just want to take a minute and thank God for the rain we’ve had almost four inches here in South Texas. North of here in the Hill Country had 10 to 12 inches.
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Fenceline weaning the home herd... about 90 mamas. Calves 7 to 8 months old. Dry and running out of grass.
My sister is about to juice and freeze prickly pears. Its a process we burn the thorns off w/ a grass burner then rinse them well then juice, pour into water bottles and freeze. High in betalains and other anti oxidants prickly pears are good for us. Coyotes, deer, and other animals consume these in late summer.
Blue snake 'bout 5 feet long headed into the flower bed! Hope it catches some mice! Not our toads...sadly if they jump they're dinner.
I have a partner today checking the cows! She loves me no matter what.
The rare and shy Angus-o-potamus! Dang hot in south Texas. Hope everyone around is getting rain.
Colocynth aka Vine of Sodom or colloquially known as 'Pie Melons'. Vines scrambled up a round bale and there you have it! The seed must have hitched a ride hundred and thirty years ago in someone's watermelon seed. (Kind of like Tumbleweed seed from the Russian Steppe hitched a ride in wheat grain) Originating in North Africa it tolerates great heat and drought, like our part of Texas, and was used as medicine by the ancient Egyptians.. too much will kill you but a little, supposedly, can relieve pain. Farmers hate them, cows don't eat them and pigs despise them.