Mary's Branding Photos

Mary comes every year for Branding weekend.  She takes photos from start to finish.  She took lots of good photos.  Selfishly, I appreciate the photos she took with me in them.  I don't take selfies very often, so it seems I'm never in the moment!  These are a few favorites.

 

 A few more favorites...

Tales that are True

Over the past two days, Papa has gotten up at 3:30 and left the house by 4, to go down to the corral to feed and saddle the horses.  He was on the road by 4:45 to get to Tom's ranch by 6 a.m.  Papa has helped with Tom's roundup this week. 

Yesterday he came home and told me about a snake Colter killed during roundup.  It was a rattlesnake, over 5' long with a big bulge.  Seems they cut it open and the snake had swallowed a big rabbit that was still mostly intact.  Today, he told me about Les roping a bear! And it was big!  All in a day's work as a cowboy!

The Branding Crew

We had 44 in our Branding crew of 2014.  They worked hard.  It was a great time! 

Faces of Branding Day