afterwards

After the sale Tami has been playing with Buzzie. This time she hyad her dog Angel with her. Angel is a heeler border collie cross and has no tail. Buzzie's great dog toy is the dogs tail. He kept looking at Angel and acted very surprised there was no tail. He's go off playing and then come back to see if he could find Angel's tail. It kept him busy for quite awhile. Then we went to play with the goats. Tami was feeding them treats and Buzzie was off somewhere. He looked up and heard her voice and went tearing over to see her. He didn't notice the goats until he was almost there. When he saw them he slammed on his brakes and went to hide behind Lucy.

catching cows

Saturday Tami brought Fergie out and I took Leilani and we went down west to catch cows. The first pasture was mostly cows and I had given them some alfalfa so they were sort of trained. They went in easily. We moved the panels over to the heifers and they weren't trained at all. We had to circle the pasture a couple of times and there's a lot out there. We were crashing through brush and splashing through water. It wasn't even that hard to get the heifers in. Once they realized that going through water and brush wasn't working they just gave up. Paula hauled them home and we rode home.

bone

One of Buzzie's favorite new toys is an arm roast bone. He stores it in another favorite toy, grandma's shoe. We took him down west today and walked out to check the cows. It was tough sledding for him. Not only that but the cows pies must have looked like an incredible feast. He just couldn't figure out how to get into one. I threw a stick out in the pond for Claire and Lucy and Buzzie ran to the edge but was afraid to put more than his front feet in.When the 2 big dogs came out he ran over and smelled them all over. Even though he didn't go in he still got soaked. We kept a close eye on him, he would be very easy to lose.

Leilani

Got Leilani back on Sunday and took her to the sale Monday. I planned on easing her in but Tami had a high school kid with her so I put him on Cassy. I still planned on easing her in but we had bulls immediately. At this point I'm figuring out to forget the easing we'll just ride. Leilani was ok with that. She did very well. She opened gates and plowed through calves. That about covers it all.

all behind me now

After getting probed on Wednesday it turned out ok. Well at least they didn't find anything. Originally Tami and I were going to go to Dighton to get Leilani. Of course I was going to ride her. In he meantime Tami's horse Hero got sick and had to go to Wichita. Wednesday was the only day she could get him. She told me I didn't have to go but I said I might as well. I don't know what they gave me but when I woke up I was wide awake, drank a pop and left. We went straight to Tami's house and left.
When we were eating she asked me several times if I was ok. Well since I had slept little the night before of course I was tired. We got Hero and he is doing fine. Tomorrow Paula and I are going to Dighton to get Leilani.

dighton

Going out to Dighton tomorrow. Leilani is about ready and I'm really anxious to see her. Julia also sounds anxious to show her off. The main reason we're going is Leilani needs her allergy shot. But since we'll already be out there we're going to Scott City after we get done playing with Leilani. Tami is in a 2 day barrel race so we might as well go. Then if everything goes well I'll get her on Wednesday. When I get her I want plenty of time to ride and see how Leilani is doing. Buzzie is getting just huge. He just got a bath tonight. AS big as he is Juan still pushes him around. Last night Buzzie was tearing around and Juan was watching. Buzzie got too close and Juan rolled him and sat on him. Nothing but the tip of a tail stuck out.