We went over to the ranch and moved cows from the main ranch up to the lower cowcamp the Mayberry. As always we had a good time and a wonderful visit with the Martinell family. They are some of the hardest workers I have ever been around. To keep a ranch the size of theirs going, they must work everyday of the week. There are no weekends off on a ranch. They were also haying so that meant they were moving cows early in the morning and cutting, raking, and baling hay till dark. Those are some long days when you get up at 0330 to saddle horses and be moving cows at daylight. We took about 500 pairs and a few bulls up near the lower cowcamp. So that was the last bunch of cows down at the ranch headquarters at Dell, MT. The rest of the cattle are already up in the Centennial Valley and all will be moved to the upper cowcamp (the Gobel) in a couple of weeks. Then in October they are gathered, the calves weaned and the cows moved down to the Mayberry until the snow gets to deep. And then they bring them down to the ranch headquarters and start feeding them the hay they spent the summer putting up. And life goes on.
Bill Cody and Jack getting a little rest after the first day.
Connie, Taryn, and Cassidy riding along the side of the cows.
This is part of the ranch pasture at the lower cow camp and that is the Lima Reservoir in the background.
Yvonne, Connie and I took out Allen's supper while he was baling.
That is a big baler Connie is standing by.
There we night hawks roosting in the cottonwood tree just behind our camper. Click to enlarge.
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