Posts Tagged ‘ranch life’

Wrangling The Cavvy

July 1, 2015
Jolyn Young

If you want to be Cavvy Savvy, you gotta savvy how to wrangle the cavvy. Heh heh heh. Anyway, back to business. Bringing in the saddle horses is a daily chore on a working cattle ranch, as it’s healthier for the horses and more efficient for the management to turn the whole bunch out into […]

The Mares

June 29, 2015
Jenn Zeller

We got our mare bunch in the other day to sort some colts and do some other miscellaneous things with them. I snuck out before the horses arrived, tucked myself in the cattle loading chute, and snapped a few photos. I thought you might want to see how pretty our horse herd here at the […]

Photos from the Branding Pen

June 17, 2015
Jenn Zeller

Branding season is in full swing, here in Armstrong County, SD.  If you’re up for a bit of history lesson, Armstrong County really isn’t a county at all, anymore.   It’s now part of Dewey County, but the folks here still refer to it as Armstrong. It’s about 800,000 acres give or take, and has […]

Branding Yahtzee

June 11, 2015
Tayler Teichert

I’ve heard the word Yahtzee yelled across many branding traps the past few months, it’s the interjection of choice for this branding season I guess. I never played Yahtzee as a kid so I decided to google the rules and I discovered that you yell yahtzee when you roll all the same number on the […]

Nothing But A Whole Lotta Sagebrush

May 30, 2015
Jolyn Young

I love poking around old homesteads. I especially like to stand at the kitchen (if there is a kitchen) window and look out to see what the ranch wife’s view was when she cooked. It’s usually a small window and a whole lotta sagebrush. Nowadays, our windows are bigger and filled with glass, but there’s […]