Pepper

Most cattlemen get repaid for all of their investment of time, hard work, equipment and infrastructure maintenance and acquisition, feed and medicine and minerals, fuel and tools, land payments and taxes, veterinary and labor expenses, bull and vehicle purchases, weatherproof clothing and gear--oh, and their own meals and housing--once a year when the calves are weaned and sold. 

But I don't have a head for business. To me, recompense is calving season, when the rewards are for the eyes and heart. 

Meet one such reward: Pepper!

"Joy is the serious business of heaven." ~C.S. Lewis

Peaches

Flame delivered Peaches at midnight. She's been bucking and racing about with joyous abandon ever since her legs could cooperate, only stopping to refuel and rest when absolutely necessary. I can only assume Peaches was a bit claustrophobic in her previous quarters. 

"For freedom Christ did set us free." ~Romans 5:1 (ASV)

Zoe

Ziggy gave us Zoe, and the world will never be the same!

"I came that they may have life, and have it abundantly." ~John 10:10 (NKJV)

Buster

Blossom brought another big bull calf into the world a few days ago. Hubby promptly dubbed him Buster. 

Buster has it made. Blossom, aka the Dairy Queen, has enough milk for two of three Busters. And since he discovered the comforts of the calf shed, Buster rarely leaves it. He's such a couch potato that I'm thinking we should have named him Spud. 

"Is not this the kind of fasting that I have chosen:

to loose the chains of injustice...

to set the oppressed free....

to share your food with the hungry,

and provide the poor wanderer with shelter...?"

                  ~Isaiah 58:6-7 (NIV)

Sky

In the beginning, Angel had Wings...

...and now Wings has Sky!

There's some blue sky in those eyes! 

"I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes." ~e.e. cummings

Presenting Bella

Annabelle blessed us with Bella yesterday afternoon. Annabelle's heifer calves have always had extraordinary ears, but Bella's have exceeded all expectations. 

"You have done amazing things we did not expect." ~Isaiah 64:3 (NCV)

Face Time

In honor of the new season and just in time: a tiny Johnny jump-up peeking bravely out from last year's litter. 

"when faces called flowers float out of the ground...it's spring!

when more than was lost has been found and having is giving and giving is living--but keeping is darkness and winter and cringing--it's spring...." 

         

           ~e.e. cummings, when faces like flowers float out of the ground