4H

Taylor is now old enough for 4H,so we signed her up.  She has had so much experience with cows that we figured we would put her in the beef program.  Ok there is no goat program, which wouldhave been ideal so we went with beef because in this area it is beef or horse.  So Doug found her a Lowline Steer (Lowline steers will only get a few inches higher than this and should only end up about 800lb) way up north of Lamont.  So on Sunday Doug, Keisha and Taylor went for a drive.  They dropped the cow off at the ranch and waited til this mornings weigh in.  Today they were at the meeting most of the day.  They had to guess how much their steer weighed.  Taylor put the guess out at 387lb.  She was pretty close at 378lb.  This is her steer: Deejay Moo

Some 4H cows.  Taylor's is the little black one in front

 HMMMMMM Hey Dad how do we get it out of the trailer?

 Oh this is how it works

Got to get it away from the texas gate

A little more fencing

This past weekend we decided to do some more fencing.  We have a couple goats that keep escaping so we went electric.

 Doug and the fencing crew

 Coming down the hill

Taylor flirting with the mud.  I had a kid throw me a fence post and well it did not make it to me and as the story goes I got stuck in the mud to my knees on both legs.  I got one leg out and then Doug ended up coming over to me and laying down branches.  I shoveled out the other leg and Doug pried the other foot out.

Doug got a couple goats together and they have been dubbed as mine.  The one we have now named Frank Lee Morris, after the guy who escaped Alcatraz.  She has been named this because she keeps escaping.  I went to one pasture, the one she is supposed to be in and she was not there.  Doug counted and thought that she was there because how could she escape an electric fence.  Well she was not there, I went in and she was not there.  So I drove the area and no goat, so we figured that we were down one.  A bit later there was interruption in the electric fence in the other pasture and sure enough she had gotten shocked getting out of her pasture   and the into the big one and she was getting out again.  So this is what you do, you borrow your dog's collar and put it on the goat and then take it for a walk

 

Doug got the goats mixed up and Friendly is number 24

Cross Country Run

Today was the Chinook Edge cross country run in Innisfail,so we headed up.  It was a very cold day.  When we got up to the race it was still -2 and there was a lot of frost all over the ground.  When the sun came up it started to get nicer and warm up.  I am not sure why they don't do it a week earlier when it was hot out. 

 Keisha getting ready to go 

 Keisha and 3 other girls in her class.  There was only 1 girls who did not come

 And they were off

 Jayden waiting for the race to end.  We had a super busy morning and he spent it running to keep up with me and then we had to do the walk through of the race, so we walked with Elyssa. So we ended up walking 1.5km most of it uphill and they did it at a fairly quick pace. 

 Elyssa is the pink blob trying to hid from the camera

There is a happy boy.

 Keisha did her 1km and finished 8th out of 40

 This is the second year that Elyssa has run it and she gets very grumpy before a race. 

 Some of the girls in Elyssa's class.  That is her teacher behind her.  She ran the race with the girls.

 Still grumpy

 And they were off.

 Elyssa is the third person running in the picture

And she finished 11 out of 125 grade 3 girls.

An Example of Skating, I think

The boys are in a Canskate program this fall/winter.  So they are supposed to learn to skate. This is what I saw.......

 Jayden on the ice

 Oh now he is trying to take a nap

 Shaun getting help from someone  and laughing that Jayden is on the ground

 Shaun trying on his own, Jayen getting some help

 Oops he is on the ground again

 Shaun trying to scrape up the ice with his skates, putting it on his glove an trying to lick it off his mitt. Tough to do with a face guard on.

Jayden finally standing on his own but trying his best not to move or else he would end up on the ice again.