Horses, Cows, & Fish

It's weekends like this that make me wish summer never had to end.

Saturday: Horseback riding at one of our summer pastures. We keep our commercial cattle here during breeding and the summer months to graze the native pasture. They have access to acres upon acres of grassland and fresh water to drink. If you ask me, they live a pretty great life.

Dad and I rode through all of the cows and did a head count to make sure everyone was accounted for and healthy. We also brought them some fresh minerals.

Sunday: Fishing trip! Dad and I drove about an hour and a half into the mountains to a friend's land to fish. We hit about 5 different spots and caught 4 fish, all smaller than my hand. But that's alright. As Billy Currington says, a bad day of fishing beats a good day of anything else.

Dad taught me how to fly fish. Ignore my awful technique..look at the pretty mountains instead.

All of these pictures were edited with Instagram, because I'm addicted to this iPhone app. Find me on there @rosietempleton.

I hope you all had great weekends! Also, I will try to stop being such a lazy blogger. I think this weekend served as a good dose of inspiration!

Green Grass and Horses

It's a beautiful day at XTC Herefords today! We've had a lot of moisture in southern Alberta the past few days, and although I have to curse it for putting a halt to seeding (planting of crops) in the area, it sure has made for some beautiful greenery. The horses and I were checking it out today.

I feel like it's the first time I've seen the colour green since last summer. Spring comes late and doesn't stay long, so I'm doing my best to enjoy it. My May Long weekend will be spent catching up on my sleep followed by working on the animals I plan to take to a show this summer. More pics of that adventure to come! In the meantime, enjoy these- 

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Charlie

Hahaha- I love this. This is Nmorange, the house/farm cat, vying for my attention.
 Not only is he an attention hog, he's also quite photogenic. Possible show cat in the making?

Happy May Long Weekend everyone!