The Texas Greeman's: A Good Start to Summer

So as you all have guessed- I'm playing catch up again. As summer is well under way, we have had a pretty good and busy one so far. Since the end of May we have gone to Silver City for the spring branding, have a pretty good start to our garden (neighbors beware- hope you like zuchinni, green beans, & tomatoes), I helped host a camp for work, we started landscaping our yard, and have a new puppy. Wow- that was a mouthful and as the summer progresses I'm sure that we'll have plenty more to add.

Spring Branding 09 at Silver City

The end of May we went up to Silver City to help Ty's folks, Pat & Kathi brand. It was a fast and furious 5 days, but we very much enjoyed our "beginning of summer vacation". Kathi was just just about 10 days out from finishing her radiation treatments (which is all done now) and is riding and going to barrel races again. She has now decided that pink is her new favorite color and that we all need pink shirts. (I'm not much on pink, but got a hot pink shirt just for her.) Pat has been busy keeping up with the new heifers they bought earlier in the spring, which we branded all their calves while we were there, and doing lots of fence work. Carolyn (Ty's grandma) was actually in El Paso at a horse show while we were there, but qualified for the world show later this year. It was good to visit with friends/branding crew while we were there, and are looking forward to the fall works which will be here before we know it.

Ty & Dusty

Trey & Kaitlyn cruising on the 4-wheeler

Sorting the calves off the cows

Getting the irons hot

Sug enjoying all the fun

This was the first calf that went through the chute.

Ty & Pat

Rafter 2S

Trey, Will, & Kaitlyn hanging out at the chutes between calves

Part of the crew: Gary Littleton, Ty, Web Trotter, and George Been
They were all laughing about George's stud trying to be friendly and Web's mare being cranky.