Round up at the Bar V Bar Ranch
So I just got back from the ranch... shew... showers are a luxury, let me tell you! I got there Friday night in long johns, shirt, sweat shirt, and I quickly added a vest, a coat, and a duster, along with gloves and a hat. When we pulled up the drive we rounded up some cattle alright, they followed us in!!! As we take the hay bales out of the horse trailer, and hurry to grab the horses and get them out, about 60 hungry cattle step closer and closer... ummm... yeah.. get those horses out NOW!!!!! So we pulled the horses out and threw the hey bales back in the trailer, with 60 hungry cattle now about a block away, so we scared them off. Next, the ranch manager comes in and about 40 to 60 head of cattle follow him in, and we chase those ones off too.
We then proceeded to the bunk house after putting the horses away in a corral, and were encouraged to have a few drinks and stay up... oh no... no no no no... I am smarter then that! So, I was the first to slip away a little after nine o'clock, and climb into my sleeping bag still fully clothed, and curl up and fall asleep. At 6 o'clock I see a whole line of horse trailers pull up, and get quickly told to get out of bed. So, I put on the vest, jacket, duster, gloves, and hat, and head out tossing tack on my horse as fast as possible... saddling up and jumping on just as the ranch owner states, "Where is the paid help that semi will be here at nine to pick up the cattle." So he goes down to the bunk house on his horse and kicks and pounds on the wall... "Get up!" Then someone comments, "there are some hunters in there to." He comments, "Well they can get up too!" (The paid help was the one that stayed up the latest and drank, I could see this one coming) So off we go running up the hill and round up cattle that were only like 10 blocks away from the corrals... easy pickings.. across the river and up the hill and into the corral. Next, we round up some more further out... through the river and up a few hills and to the corral. Then as we were putting those in the corral, the rest came in on there own!!!!!!!!!! :( Where is all the fun.. all we were missing was one bull... :( So, we rode around, but with the snow we saw no cattle tracks, and the horses were a slippin and a sliding... The next day the semi trucks came in at 7 o'clock the next morning, and we were up watching as the last of the cattle got hauled away.
To tell you the truth it was easy pickings, and only one person got bucked off in a river and I didn't get to see it! I also learned the warmth was none existant, and after a while, cold didn't seem to matter much... Of course, now that I am home, boy am I sweating to death, and in jeans and a t-shirt none the less, what a luxury!!!!!!!!!!!
We then proceeded to the bunk house after putting the horses away in a corral, and were encouraged to have a few drinks and stay up... oh no... no no no no... I am smarter then that! So, I was the first to slip away a little after nine o'clock, and climb into my sleeping bag still fully clothed, and curl up and fall asleep. At 6 o'clock I see a whole line of horse trailers pull up, and get quickly told to get out of bed. So, I put on the vest, jacket, duster, gloves, and hat, and head out tossing tack on my horse as fast as possible... saddling up and jumping on just as the ranch owner states, "Where is the paid help that semi will be here at nine to pick up the cattle." So he goes down to the bunk house on his horse and kicks and pounds on the wall... "Get up!" Then someone comments, "there are some hunters in there to." He comments, "Well they can get up too!" (The paid help was the one that stayed up the latest and drank, I could see this one coming) So off we go running up the hill and round up cattle that were only like 10 blocks away from the corrals... easy pickings.. across the river and up the hill and into the corral. Next, we round up some more further out... through the river and up a few hills and to the corral. Then as we were putting those in the corral, the rest came in on there own!!!!!!!!!! :( Where is all the fun.. all we were missing was one bull... :( So, we rode around, but with the snow we saw no cattle tracks, and the horses were a slippin and a sliding... The next day the semi trucks came in at 7 o'clock the next morning, and we were up watching as the last of the cattle got hauled away.
To tell you the truth it was easy pickings, and only one person got bucked off in a river and I didn't get to see it! I also learned the warmth was none existant, and after a while, cold didn't seem to matter much... Of course, now that I am home, boy am I sweating to death, and in jeans and a t-shirt none the less, what a luxury!!!!!!!!!!!
posted by Nell, your friendly Red Wing Corrections Officer @ 11:30 AM
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