Update and Some Pics

7/09/08 - 4th Day - After Breakfast. Here are some recent pics from the Ranch. Listen, all these pics were taken by my phone and sent up to the blog via email, so don't expect Ansel Adams. This first picture is of Sugar, she is a Yellow Blackmouth Cur. In this pic we had only had her for 1 day, but she has now been around here for a week. I have to say this is the smartest and easiest to train dog I have ever owned. The children taught her "sit" and "shake" in about 2 days, and she is a tiny little puppy. She was basically crate and house trained from day one. She has an accident every once in awhile, but she will usually tell us she needs to go out, and she goes into her crate every night and sleeps through the night without whining or barking. It took 2 days to basically have her crate trained. She does whine a bit if she is on the porch and everyone else is outside. She wants to be with everyone, which is to be expected.


Here is Sugar this morning, playing with Danielle.


This next pic is of my heifer Pita. Pita is a heifer I have been training for two years. Eventually, Lord willing, she will be a working cow - used to pull and to ride. Right now she is pregnant and should be dropping in the next two months some time. Here she is kicking up her heals and happy because she knows she is about to get some range cube treats.

Here is Pita with Quitachon, the bull on loan from our friend Frank Sharp. The offspring of Quitachon and Pita will probably be named "Pitachon".


This next pic is of my main pasture. I suppose it is about 6 to 6.5 acres. It will be cross-fenced and used as a rotational pasture system.


These next three pics are from the fence work we are currently doing in my main pasture. We are finally sealing off the last two little sections that still had old barbed wire fence.


This is Beulah, our Holstein heifer. (Wow, that sentence took a lot of thinking as to where to put the "e" in each word... not easy! I is not always before "e".)


For those one or two of you who did get the Ansel Adams allusion earlier in the blog post, here is my attempt at an Adams type picture with my cell phone...


These last two pics are from our trip up north. These were taken from my cell phone in Ohio Amish country. The pics will never properly relate how beautiful it really is.


Peace, y'all.

Michael Bunker