Family stuff

THE BOY: Spencer is living in Iowa...in fact...in Denison. He is currently living at home but has taken a job as manager of Connor's Corner Bed and Breakfast in Denison. (Check out their website!) He will begin on July 1...AND MOVING OUT!!!!! Seriously, it's been nice having him around again. I hurt my back at the end of April and I am not supposed to lift anythin for at least three to six months. (yeah, right! ) I don't know what I am going to do without him.

THE GIRL: Hayley graduated in May...the same day that Spencer turned 21! Whew hoo! She is going to be flying off to Bolivia via a Rotary exchange program and will be gone for a year. We are so excited for her and this new adventure in her life. Her Bolivian family sounds fabulous. We just hope that she will come home. It's going to be hard not having her here for the holidays and to not see her for so long but I guess we have to be happy with modern technology and take advantage of the "Jetson" internet conversations. Sniff sniff! I am thinking that the State Fair timing is going to be good therapy.

THE BOSS: Brad has seen fit to tolerate me for yet another year. He is a trooper but I guess if we didn't love this business so much we would be sitting somewhere in the mountains or on a beach instead of doing what we are doing.

JOIN ME IN PARADISE!

Well, it's Father's Day weekend. The "boys" are golfing, the "girl" is at the lake with her grandparents and I am sitting at the bunk house listening to Sirius(ly) good music and catching up on life. It's beautiful here today. Partly cloudy, no rain...yet, and pretty mild out. Darby is sleeping on the sofa and Hoover, well, he's not here this year. We'll miss him though. Life goes on.

As some of you know I had a large cow dispersal last fall. That doesn't mean that I have walked away from the cow business though. I kept about 20 bred females and my fall heifer crop. I have added a few heifers to the mix and flushed a couple of my donors with much success. It looks like we are going to have a fantastic group of bred females to offer this fall. I have found my happy place when it comes to running cows and I plan on sticking with that number.

Labor Day pasture sale plans are WELL under way. Although with my own smaller herd I will not have as many of my own calves to offer I have put together an incredible combination of consignments that I am sure you will be equally excited about when you see them. At this very moment we have sixty head consigned but as we draw closer to the arrival date I forsee narrowing them down to about 40 head. THEY ARE POWERFUL.

Please keep checking our site. It is not current at this time but we will have it updated very soon.

CHANGES: It just wouldn't be right if we didn't have some new things going on at Club Calf Paradise. The bunk house has had a bit of remodeling. We have added some new furnishings to add to the comforts of the gathering spot. Darby loves them...we are sure that you will too. We are also in the process of building a new structure for washing and working calves during the sale. It's probably going to double as the "smoke house" since the "boys" recently bought a new monster smoker. (More on that later! )