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December 7, 2023
Jan Swan Wood
It was a nasty, cold, snowy, windy winter day and seeing as how it was too awful outside to do anything, that’s the day the boss decided we needed to put the brisket tags in the heifers. The working chute was set up in a barn, which would have helped the wind situation, except that […]
November 22, 2023
Jan Swan Wood
I was looking through old photos the other evening and came on one that brought back a memory that made me smile. It was a bad photo of a beach off of Baja California, Mexico. I don’t know why I hadn’t zoomed in more when I took it, but the photo was of tiny figures […]
November 20, 2023
Jan Swan Wood
It was October and fall day work was going steady. We’d shipped all of the steers we’d ridden on all summer by September, but there hadn’t been a letup in the riding. We’d been called to gather the D cows out of the oak thickets and gumbo breaks and knew it would be a tough […]
November 10, 2023
Jan Swan Wood
The cows were needing moved to a fresh pasture on the place I was leasing grass from. Our cows handled really well and were very broke, so I knew that my seven year old and I could handle it, but, there was a problem on the route we needed to move them. There were two […]
November 8, 2023
Jan Swan Wood
It had been a wet fall with rain, cool temps and even an October snow storm that melted and soaked in. The end of October had the ground saturated with moisture. We were hired to go and gather a bunch of cows and ship the calves off of some genuine gumbo country. We’d ridden this […]