Look pass the ruffled feather to the good speaking the truth will bring.
Monday, August 29, 2022
Sunday, August 28, 2022
Hitting the Hay
You ain't no cowboy today unless you have a living quarters in your horse trailer. Fortunately, we have that one covered. Patty is a multipurpose trailer. We can haul horses, cows, sometimes both, haul hay, and even campout.
Friday, August 26, 2022
Cutting Room
With 40 cows ran through the cutting room so far, we've come across some improvements that could help in the process. The main one being the floor. The aluminum tread plate was next to impossible to keep clean. So with butchering season around the corner, we took advantage of a window of opportunity to fix her up.
Roundup
With the rise of fall, roundup season is starting to emerge. My cowhand is fixing to go back to Spain in a week or so, so I figured we better get the girls moving sooner rather than later. Friday was the day. The plan was to roundup our eight heifers on Raney's place east of Hulett. Move four to Joe's and bring four home.
Thursday, August 25, 2022
Wednesday, August 24, 2022
Witness
Modern man listens to witnesses before he does teachers. And he listens to teachers in so far as they are first witnesses. Paul VI
Monday, August 22, 2022
Sunday, August 21, 2022
Ranch Rodeo
Narrow Gate
Following Jesus with all our heart, mind, soul, and strength is entering through the narrow gate.
Friday, August 19, 2022
Bull Ride
With hamburger going fast at Lungren Brothers Cattle Company we decided to go looking for a bull. Just in time, Ryan and Anna Huxtable came through with a young red angus whose equipment was broke. Not wanting to waste anytime, Gerry and I saddled up and headed south to Wright.
Thursday, August 18, 2022
Tuesday, August 16, 2022
Sunday, August 14, 2022
Just Winchin
Back in high school, all I wanted was a winch. I'd be sitting in math class, thumbing through an Off Road magazine, daydreaming of a putting a winch on my pick up. That desire was eventually fulfilled when I moved to Montana after graduation and drove tow truck for my uncle. There, I always had two hydraulic 12k pounders right behind me. It was kind of like packing heat, you were always ready. Well, since those days I have felt a bit naked. A little under prepared, you might say. Until now.
Thursday, August 11, 2022
Cucumbers
One of the best homilies I have given is probably my cucumber homily. Since then I receive a plethora of cucumbers each year from mid July through August. I love cucumbers, especially straight from the garden. It reminds me of home when Mom would grow cucumbers. I'd usually go out after her and pick all the ones she missed.
Poverty and Virginity
Chasity and poverty of spirit are two indispensable virtues in the spiritual life.
Wednesday, August 10, 2022
Sons of Mary 2022
It is good when brothers dwell in unity. This week marked our 3rd annual priestly fraternal retreat in the Big Horns. Not all the brothers could make it, but we took what we could get. We call ourselves the Sons of Mary, taking seriously our Lord's final words to us as He hung upon the Cross: Behold your mother. Mary keeps us in the saddle of sonship. We live out of our baptismal identity as sons of the Father in order to serve well as priests of Jesus Christ.
Already But Not Yet
The Church is the presence of the Kingdom of God, already! https://youtu.be/4cmPt_vupXQ
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