Exposed!!

A secret love affair

between two unlikely souls

was discovered 

thru the office window.

Who would have thought

this duo 

would find love

thru the fence.

Yes, I caught Diesel saying

sweet nothin's in Itty Bitty's ear.

And after all the whispering, a simple kiss on the forehead.

I've raised a gentleman.

S#!& Happens!!

Hello, I'm Workin' Here!

I swear, I'm just trying to get a good picture.  But the cows have another idea.  Blackie kept sniffin' my camera.  Seriously!  How am I suppose to concentrate when I have a cow's nose breathing on me!

She was very interested in the whole picture taking process.

Then I had a feelin' something was coming up on me.  I peer thru my lens to see this!

Yep, Stubby was intrigued with what I was doing on the ground too.  "Mom, why are you on the ground among all the cows?"

I love photographing animals.

A Little Less Bull

We're doing some reorganization around Crazy M.  First, we got rid of our new breed bull.  He kept getting out here at the house.  We couldn't trust that he would stay in at the lease, where we need him, so he had to go.  Plus he was mean.  We don't want the responsibility of having a loose mean bull out and about.  That left us with a predicament.  What are we gonna breed to now?

Then after our other bull, Eyebrows, got into Mojo's pasture last week, we've had issues with him.  He's been penned up with Stubby.  I walk by his pen and he comes at me.  He should be out of here this week.  The husband said he really doesn't want any big bulls at the house.  He'd rather sell them young so we don't have to deal with all their "issues" once they are about 3 years old.  I have no problem with that.

That left us with Stubby.  We've tried selling him.  For some reason, it never goes through.  Truth be told, I don't want to see him leave.  Y'all know how attached I am to him.  After we brought him home Saturday from the bullriding, I sat on his feed trough as he ate, thinking I would really miss him if he left.  He really is "my" bull.  There is a connection between us as strange as that seems.  So I talked the husband into putting Stubby out on the cows.  And boy was he happy! (Stubby that is!)

Busy Saturday

My Saturday began with a 5K.  First one I've ran since my injury last March.  It was the Komen Race for the Cure so it was extremely crowded.  Not a good race if you want a fast time.  The first mile you're fighting with the mass of people.  But I ran the entire way and finished without any pain in my Achilles!  As soon as I finished, I ran to my nearby office and changed my clothes.  I had to get to a bullriding!

We had a couple of bulls in a bullriding in a nearby town.  I managed to get there just as the girls rode in with the flags.  Great timing!  Of course, I spent my time taking pictures from the stands and drooling of the event photographer's camera and lens.  I think I need to make that my new tagline "Pictures from the Stands".  Here are a few.







Hope everyone is having a great weekend!

Just a Reminder

Paws in the Park is quickly approaching.  I have about 2 weeks to raise the remaining money to reach my $300 goal.  I'm over half way there!!!  For additional information on the event, you can read the post HERE.

I will place all my blogger peeps that donate in a drawing for over $50 worth of Crazy M Photography swag!  Right now, there are only 4 in the drawing (thank you guys!).  I'm sure they would like to keep it that way but I would love to have a bunch more to add.  The donation amount is not a factor either.  It can be $5.  Every little bit counts to these dogs and cats.

All donations go directly to the shelter.  Click on the shelter's link to go straight to the 4 Paws Project fundraising page.

Thanks for your support!!

Take Cover!

Well we had a pretty exciting night yesterday.  Severe weather was running rampant around these parts.  I managed to make it home before it got to the house.  Did my chores and got into the house.  Weatherman said we were in a tornado warning.  I wasn't real worried at that time.  I was watching the cattle.  They were grazing. Since they didn't seem to upset, I figured we were going to miss it.

A little bit later, the weatherman said the storm looked to be producing a tornado not far away from us.  He actually circled an area that included where we live.  So, of course, I go outside with my camera to watch the clouds.  The husband called me to see what was going on.  There was a reported tornado near his work too.  They were taking cover in a vault.  I told him nothing was going on here, not even rain.

The swirling clouds passed over us.  I went back in the house and the power went out.  Great!  But I didn't think much of it.  I had Mike, my awesome IPhone.  I noticed there was another storm building up and headed this way.  This one seemed to be a little worse.  The news on my Facebook was saying tornado sirens were going off.  Everyone needed to take shelter in nearby towns.  And yes, it was coming this way!  Okay, I'll keep a close eye on the posts.  Well, Mike decided to take a nap.  A long, I'm dead, kinda nap!

Fortunately, I had my work phone charged (which I tend not to do!).  I got back on Facebook.  The husband called me again.  He was back in the vault.  I was waiting for the storm to hit.  Sure enough, it HIT!  First it was the lightning.  I was most worried about that.  It is so dry around here.  I did not want a fire.  Then the rain and hail.  Penelope and Diesel came in the house.  Lucky was hiding and I couldn't get him in for the life of me.  We hung out in the floor of the living room waiting for the storm to pass.  Of course, it's pitch black but I did manage to find our good flashlight.  Within about 30 minutes, the storm passed and the house was still standing.  Yea us!

I was prepared though.  I made a conscious decision to keep my bra on until after the storms passed.  I didn't want everything to get blown away and be bra-less on TV when they came to interview me.  Priorities people!

Conspiracy

You ever have one of those days?  We have lately at the Crazy M.  I swear the animals are in a conspiracy against us.  I told y'all about the new breed bull being two miles from the house the other evening.  Well, Saturday we spent the day in our most favorite town watching a bull futurity and seeing friends.  We got home about 6:30 tired and ready for an early bedtime.  Right around dusk, Diesel started raising cane.  I looked out the front and saw Eyebrows in Mojo's pasture.  Mojo is the cripple, broke leg bull.  He did not need to be in a fight.  They were pawing the ground and head buttin' each other.  The fight was fixin' to be on.  So the husband and I threw on our boots and ran outside.  We managed to get Eyebrows out of the pasture and in the arena.  BUT he needed to move him from the arena into his pen. (He had busted the chain and clip on the gate between his pen and the arena!)

By this time, he is one angry bull.  He chased me up a fence.  The husband was yelling at me to "climb!"  Believe me, I was.  He wasn't bluffing.  Then that left the husband in the middle of the arena with nothing to hide behind or climb up.  I yelled at him asking where he was going to go.  He said he didn't know!  Luckily, Eyebrows ran back to the fence near Mojo.  I ran to the barn, got my whip and the husband the hotshot.    Then I let Stubby out in the arena to get Eyebrows.  Eyebrows won't mess with Stubby.  I was finally able to sook Stubby back into the pen and Eyebrows followed.

Just when I thought we were good, Stubby decided he didn't want to stay in his pen anymore.  He started making laps, heading straight for the gate every time.  He wanted to jump the gate so bad.  We were on the other side of the gate, yelling at him to "STOP!"  Of course it was dark by this time.  We couldn't leave them in their regular pen now.  They were all wound up.  So we needed to move them behind the barn in a small pen.  Fortunately, they didn't give us any grief gettin' them in there.

Then I was worried about my dad's horse being in the pen next to them.  I didn't want them to try jumping out and getting in there with her.  So I had to move her in the barn into a stall.  We finally managed to get everyone situated.  Needless to say, we didn't get to bed early!  Diesel got treats though!

The next morning, I let Harley out.  He started barking at the back.  I looked out the door and didn't see anything but Miss Kitty.  Harley never barks at the cat?  Then I saw her, brindle heifer walking down the drive towards the barn.  Seriously!  What is going on around here!  I slipped my shoes on and went out to put her back in the pasture.

I came back in the house and decided I needed to bake some cookies.  That would make me feel better.  I whipped up a batch of dough, went to throw them in the oven and what's this?  Why is the oven cold?  Ummm, yea, no propane!!  So much for baking cookies or cookin' Easter lunch!  I started eating the cookie dough to drown my sorrows until the husband took it away from me.

The husband decided we needed to attempt to catch the cows and breed bull at the house.  Really?  Have you noticed the issues we've been having?  Do you really want to temp fate at this moment?  Yes, he did.  So we caught a few heifers that needed to be moved over to Mojo's pasture.  Also loaded up Roscoe to take to the sale barn.  We managed to stop for a chimichanga at the gas station for our lunch on the way to the sale barn.

After we dropped Roscoe off, we headed to the lease to check the cows there.  We had a few more babies.  Woohoo!  No major issues, thank goodness!  Stay tuned for the baby pictures.  And guess what, Itty Bitty has a brother and he looks just like her!!
 

I Heart Faces-Pets Contest

I've always wanted to enter an I Heart Faces contest.  I never think I have anything good enough to throw in the ring though.  But I saw this week was Pets!  This was the one for me to finally try.  So I pondered about what picture I recently took to enter.  I just love this picture of Penelope.  So here I go, my official first entry!!




Wish me luck!!

Happenings

Can't believe it's been almost a week since I last posted.  Let's see, what's happened 'round these parts.

Husband went out of town.  I had to do my own laundry and dishes!  THE HORROR!  Yes, I am spoiled.  Even one armed, he does the laundry and dishes.  Well, I did give him a few months off.  But he's in physical therapy now so it's good for him.  ;)

Husband back in town.  Happy dance.  Not just because I no longer have to do the laundry and dishes.  Cause I missed him.  Entertaining myself is far less fun then entertaining him.  So glad he's home.  So was Penelope.  She peed all over when he walked in the gate and pet her.  She was excited.  I wasn't THAT happy.  I managed to control my bladder.

Neighbor called me yesterday to tell me his wife found our bull about two miles from the house!  Excuse me.  He's suppose to be right out here in the pasture!  She "pushed" him down the road with her car.  Thankfully, the bull cooperated and came straight home.  I ran out and opened the gate.  He ran right in.  She said her husband told her not to get out of her car, "That is that crazy fighting bull."  She said she had no intention of getting out of her car.  I giggled.  Yes, he's not the nicest bull but I walk out in his pasture every day to feed.  Anyhow, she got him home for me.  Thank you great neighbors!

This morning I went to the spay/neuter clinic to take the staff pictures.  They weren't as excited as I was about the picture taking.  Guess it wasn't their idea!  But they humored me.  Here are a couple of my favorites.

I have decided I need to find human subjects to practice on.  Think that will boost my confidence when it comes to taking people pictures.  Animals, I'm good.  Add a person, YIKES!  So I'm going to look for victims, I mean models.

Hope everyone has a beautiful Easter.