Hornet Homecoming

Last week was homecoming in hornet land! 

The homecoming queens rode in a convertible.  My niece was a candidate!

 

The court was beautiful and they decided to go barefoot.

So we put their shoes under their chairs.

Did I mention my niece, Marli, was a candidate?

Did I mention my niece was crowned THS Homecoming queen? 

Did I mention Tate had a date?

Pake did too!

Then, we played some hornet football and the hornets fought hard.  Unfortunately our little team has already been plagued with major injuries. However, I bet these kids will always remember their homecoming!

Note:  I antiqued these photos. Y'all like?  Dislike? 

Justin Bradley's Benefit Ranch Rodeo

Last night we honored an outstanding man and he just happened to be a cowboy.  A cowboy that we sure are missing.  Everytime I see his paint horse it hits me that he really is gone.  Everyone came together this weekend to celebrate Justin's life and donate to his wife and baby Pecos who we all can't wait to meet.  It always amazes me how so many people come together and do awesome things at times like these.  Thanks to everyone that donated and helped with the rodeo and silent auction.

There are so many people to recognize but Nicki Sturgess, I just want to say you did an awesome job with the silent auction!

And thanks to all the cowboys too!  There were 26 teams! 

The Happy Toy Maker is always a hit with the kids.  Yes Tate won a set of panels in the silent auction.  He had more fun bidding and watching the bid to make sure he still had it. 

KD helped Keith cook.  Thanks Keith for all your hardwork.

Tripp entered Sandhill. Thank you Sandhill, Tripp, Riley and Red and the other guys on the team! 

 Sandhill was second and they donated their winnings back to Brittany and Pecos.  I can't thank you guys enough.  I also want to thank Bonnie Concho for donating a cap to the silent auction.

Another awesome thing happened last night, Tripp's friend Rodey from the winning team gave his buckle to Pake..... it's the sweetest thing I've ever experienced in my life.  Brings a tear to my eye.

Pake is one happy kid. 

Rodey Wilson thank you for doing something so special for my boy.

  I wish I had a picture of Rodey and Pake.... maybe we can get one at the finals in November.

I wanted to share this picture of Kerry Don, Tate, Alan Sturgess,

JoeByrd, Jim Cope, Justin and Pake a few years ago after working calves.

Justin will always be remembered by our family, especially everytime we work cattle. 

Pake's First Big Hunt

Pake shot his first antelope at the ranch last weekend. 

I think he's hooked.

Now he wants to shoot

a deer,

an aoudad,

an elk,

a moose,

a BEAR...

lol

not really I just know that he was one happy fellar!

Football y Futbol

It's fall y'all and with fall comes football and in our case futbol (aka soccer) too!

Pake's a big bad 7th grader and he's playing "real" football for the Tulia Dobbers.

He's been playing defensive corner.

The Dobbers are 2 for 2.

Tater is playing futbol on the Magic team.  By the way, that's cousin Jerzi on the opposing team.

Tater Jack has scored a few goals.  Team Magic is 3-1.

Then after soccer we head over for football practice. 

Tater is also playing 3rd & 4th grade tackle football for the Hornets.  I've always said there's no way we'd do two sports at once, but see Tater has lots of energy and we're trying to keep him busy.

It's the first year for these guys to play tackle football, but they're learning and having a blast. 

The ole Excursion has a few more miles on it.... but it's been fun! 

The Badger Story

Y'all ain't gonna believe this!  Wait..... no if y'all know us actually you probably will.

Well y'all know my husband likes to collect critters.  AND he's always wanted a badger.  Yes I said a badger.  Why?  Heck if I know, you'll have to ask him.  ANYway, here's our badger story....

KD calls, "Hey Pake saw a badger go in hole over on the Keim place, you know right there where they swathed the corn stalks.  So we put a shovel in the hole and we're headed to get the water truck, you wanna come take some pictures?"

My reply, "Whatever, last time you had this bright idea it was just a skunk!!!!"

Anyway, I grabbed my camera and jumped in the pick-up.

Sure enough Pake wasn't seeing things, as soon as they started the water shooting down in her hole, here she came.  Pake was so excited, "It's a badger!  It really is!" 

And I'll be durn if it wasn't a badger. I've never seen one for more than a few seconds.  KD pulled the trigger and he still hasn't stopped smiling about gettin him a badger!

We have quality family time together, drowning out badgers on a Sunday afternoon.

Who knew the water truck could be so useful?

She was so nasty and smelled almost as nice as a skunk.

So KD promptly called his taxidermist (he has him on speed dial) and asked what we needed to do. 

"Should we wash her?  Blow dry her before we put her in the freezer?"  I'm serious, I'm not making that part up.

Yep y'all guessed it, they washed and blow dried her.  Yes they used my blow dryer....  I'm still not sure how I feel about this.  I might need counseling. 

Then, I proudly texted all my friends and family the picture.  Tori, my baby sis, matter of factly, texts me back.  Did you know that dachshunds are badger hunting dogs?  Come to find out her and Scout had been reading a book about dogs and they learned this valuable fact. 

I didn't really believe my sis, so I looked it up on Wikipedia and sure enough.....

The dachshund (UK: /ˈdæksənd/, US: /ˈdɑːkshənd/, German: [ˈdaksˌhʊnt]) is a short-legged, long-bodied dog breed belonging to the hound family. The standard size dachshund was bred to scent, chase, and flush out badgers and other burrow-dwelling animals, while the miniature dachshund was developed to hunt smaller prey such as rabbits. In the American West they have also been used to hunt prairie dogs.

Well I'll be durn, we got us a badger hunting dog and didn't even know it.

More About Miley

Miss Miley and I had a photo session this morning!  I think she did wonderful!

She's been a sweet sweet puppy so far!

She loves the boys and they love her!

Ok, yes she chews on everything!!!

I think she looks like a blue heeler, well except that she's tiny and her body is long and her legs are short.  But other than that, I think she might pass as a cowdog. 

Miley

I'd like y'all to meet Miley.  Miss Miley Sue Adams!

Believe it or not Miley was ALL Kerry Don's idea.  He's already been calling her "sugar."

We're all crazy about her. 

She's a miniature dapple dachshund.  And she's a darling!

Labor Day and Some Stitches

Labor Day this year brought some nice cool weather!

So we rode!

And we fished! 

Here Pake and Cole show off some crappie....

if you notice Tate is trying to catch one in the live well. 

Speaking of Tate.... boy do I have a story to tell!  Warning though this next picture is not pretty.

If you have a weak stomach.... don't look.

I warned you! 

Yes that's Tate's chin, and that's all his double chin fat looking all nasty and gross.

So he got 13 stitches. 

So what the heck did he do?  Well here's the story....

We were at the lake.  We'd just had our traditional Saturday night steak night and we were cleaning up, when I hear the scream "MOMMA!!!"  You know the scream that scares the snot out of you, the scream that you know something is wrong.  I drop everything and run to him and he's holding his neck.   I figured out real quick that there was in fact blood.  I sorta panicked and then I got it together and we loaded him up and took him to the ER.  So all the way to the ER, KD and I keep asking him.  "Tate what did you do?"  All he'd say was, "I fell out of the pickup." 

So we get in the ER, the nurse asks him his name, his age, etc.... and what happened.  Then, these are the words that came out of my youngest punk's mouth, "Well I was trying to do a front flip out of the side of the pickup"  So the story finally comes out.  He was using the bed of the pickup like monkey bars, he was going to flip his body over but keep holding on and he caught his chin on the tire well. Thankfully, it wasn't worse.  He promises this is the last stunt he's going to pull like this....

I hope I can believe him.

Feedin'

After weining some of our calves, KD decided to start a feedyard.  I can't decide if we should call it KD Adams Farms Feedyard or The Backwards K Feedyard or The Roll-A-Cone Feedyard or should  we just call it a feedlot.  Ok I know I'm being quite dramatic.  But times are tough with this drought and frankly we don't have anything else to feed these calves.  So we're feeding them canola pellets and hay and we're just thankful that we're still able to feed them.

I've heard KD say before.... I'll never be in the feedlot business. 

Well KD you should never say NEVER, cuz you're in the feedlot business.

But look at this face.... you'd go in the feedlot business for a face like that wouldn't you? 

Any how, that's the story around here.  We get up and we go feed.  The next day we get up and we go feed.   And we keep praying for rain, so we can turn these calves out on wheat.