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A perfect cabbage.  This one has been selected to be the center piece for our family holiday party.  Something about little tomatoes, seasoning salt and vodka.  Click here for audio recipe.

Here’s Blazing Star, on the left,  with a few of our outstanding  young cows.  We are looking for this calf crop to be simply amazing.  Lots of horn, lots of color - about as good as it gets.  Note the red color at the base of all three of these animals indicating that horn growth is very active.

Gay’s garden already produces an abundance of produce all year long.  We built several concrete raised beds earlier this year that have worked very well.  So, of course, we’re doubling the size with three new beds, two slightly larger to accommodate plants like watermelons that need more room.  The forms were finished late last week and the beds should be done in a few days.

You can see the drip watering system for the bed on the left.  Makes watering a breeze.

More veggies for the coons!

We purchased two new Pioneer Forecarts for our draft horses.  Pioneer makes very heavy duty reliable horse-drawn equipment.  As you can see the carts are going to require some assembly!  These are going to be cross country training and exercise carts and can be used to pull trailers, hay bails, disks, etc.  Fully equipped with hydraulic brakes and a sun canopy.

Hopefully, we’ll get the horses in really good shape with a bit more exercise.

Stay tuned for pictures of the completed pr0ject.

We are pleased to be hosting two camels this weekend.  They are members of the cast for “Main Street Bethlehem” in Burnet, Texas.  This is an amazing event drawing crowds from all over Texas - in fact there were 6,000 people there last night.  The camels needed a place to hang out between performances and we were happy to have them.  The First Baptist Church in Burnet sponsors the event each year and our ranch foreman, Hardy Vaughn, is a camel expert after all these years.

Here’s our new bull, Scorpio ET.  We just purchased half interesting in this awesome young bull from Mike Bowman.  We are focusing our breeding program on this bull and Blazing Star.

What’s so interesting is that this bull’s mother is a cow named Bojangles that we sold to Mike Bowman several years ago.  Great genetics all the way around.

We did a run to Kansas to pick him up - 1200 miles in two days.  He was not a happy camper on the trip but is now very pleased to be with an attractive herd of friendly cows!

Hardy and I checked on Blazing Star this morning and he measured 48 3/8.  That takes his projected horn to 74.9 inches.  The boy is doing good.  He’s grown almost an inch in a month.

Finally, after weeks of showers all around us we got a good rain.  To quote Colonel Eddie Wood, “It’s been so dry around here even a jack rabbit would have to pack a lunch.”

He was 38 inches in May. Today he measures 46 5/8 inches with about a 10 inch base. Pretty amazing growth. This is one of our strongest herd sire prospects with great horn, great color and great confirmation.

Based on the Dalgood’s horn calculator this bull could top out at 74.5 inches. He has a great pedigree including Starliner, JP Grand Ritz and JBM Sunstar.

Note the special pens built for longhorns with the top rails slanted on top to allow for big horned cattle.