December 1-2 The Holiday Season is upon
us and this year has flown by like gang busters. Is it really
time for Christmas and the New Year already? Seems the older we
get the faster time passes or else we are so busy that we don't take
time to notice the calendars flipping past each month! Windy
today but still up in the 60's so not bad for the first day of
December. I took some baby clothes over for Erica and got to see
the little bungle of joy! McKenzie is a very pretty baby!
I then went to Langley to pick up groceries. I came home with a
whole truck load of goodies. The company last week took care of
our supplies! The Steve and Dana Shrum's brought a cow by
to breed today. Tiff came to help today but went home early as
she caught the head cold bug that has been getting us all! We
had planned on hauling more hay today but decided to have a slow day
and recuperate! ha Come back for more exciting times!
I am still trying to recuperate from working cows Friday afternoon.
Abbie, Tiff and I ran around 80 head through the chute to put
cidars in so we can breed next week and for recips the week after for
the transfer of embryos.
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This
is a picture of our granddaughter Grace Abigail Thorne.
It kind of makes you say ah doesn't it!
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December 3-4
Happy Birthday Kyleigh and Dalton Lee! Monday was catch up around
the house. I trimmed up the mutts and that meant getting the
vacuum out, so I hit all the floors. I also had an eye
appointment with Doc Fullerton at 2:00 in Pryor. He has family is NE so we always
seem to have something to relate to besides my eye balls! ha He
had Lasic surgery before I did and he convinced me that it was the
real deal! No changes at this point. It sure is nice to
get up in the morning and not run into doors and walls. ha
I picked up a new flipper exhaust for one of the John Deere tractors
got home and Vincent and Nancy were here. They brought Juna and her Hardy heifer
calf so we can set her up to flush. Kelly and Morgan Henry came out
about dark and they picked out a nice heifer for Morgan to show.
We ran her into the barn and tattooed her and gave her her first
halter training. We tied her up for about 15 minutes and Abbie led her to the trailer.
She was done
fighting the halter before they left out of the yard. Those darn
halters are amazing. Of course it helps to have gentle cattle
too. Morgan is going to have her eating out of her hand real
quick! She is a half Angus and half Braunvieh heifer and
Morgan can show her at County as a commercial and at Tulsa in the Open
Braunvieh and Junior Heifer show.
I have been working on the Family
Ancestry again. You can see
MY Home Page for our
surnames and family tree. The branches just keep on growing! ha
Simply amazing where it takes you.
Looks to be a real pretty day here. I would
imagine we will be hauling hay today! The roofers should come
and finish up the sky lights today too. Right now we have
plywood covering them. Sure doesn't let in much light.
Talking about light see Anna Light to the right. She is a
real nice Purebred heifer that is doing well this fall.
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TLC Anna's Light a
TLC Anna Et baby sired by Polled
Lighting.. Her brothers name is TLC Bud Light.
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December 5 -6 We have
been hauling hay for the past couple of days nonstop! We even
took hay back to our neighbors that we borrowed hay from last year
when we were short. Great neighbors Bill and Chell Propp.
I am sure you are all familiar with the song "Grandma got ran over
by a Reindeer? Well this grandma could have been run over by
a John Deere Tractor yesterday. Thank heavens this grandma was
headed back to the pasture "ahead" of Dear Abbie. I made
the trip over to pick up 8 of those little bales and met Abbie at the
house! He never said anything about having any troubles.
We went back to the hay pasture to pick up the other tractor and
another load of bales. It was not until last night that Dear
Abbie confessed that he had a wild ride on his trip home. He
said he was headed up the hill at Propp's place when his truck stopped
and started going backwards down the hill. The back tires of the
dually were off the ground spinning in the air! His tractor had
came out of park and was rolling off the big low boy trailer backwards
with no driver! Luckily it rolled down the hill and came
to a stop before the pond and the creek draw. I am really
surprised that he even told me but guess it was pretty amazing that he
didn't have a major wreck! The good Lord looks out for
little kids and Crazy Old Men evidently! He was looking
out for this grandmother too! He sent me on ahead! So now
I have decided I won't be the obedient wife and follow behind my
husband foot step for foot step anymore. ha Like I
ever did! ha Who knows what will happen on our next
adventure! ha I just hope we have our Guardian Angels riding
along! This picture is of Turk from Tulsa State
Fair. Looks like a fun group huh?
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TLC Turk at Tulsa State Fair 2007.
We have all our pictures from Tulsa State Fair now so go and see them
at the News Page.
Today, Friday we pulled cidars and gave shots in mist
and cloudy chilly weather. Tomorrow we give shots and then start
taking heats for breeding the next day! Check back soon!
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December 7-12 ICE STORM!
That about sums it up for what has been happing in Northeast OK and
the Thorne Ranch! Sunday we A I'd cows until 10:30. It
was a rainy and wet mess! At 4:00 in the AM our power went off
from the inch and a half of ice that formed on the trees, power
lines and fences! We are quite well though and so are
our animals! We had to break off ice on all the hot wire
fences on Monday to try and keep everyone in! Tuesday late we
finally got a generator combination welder that we got hooked up to
the Electric Box. So we now have steady heat, lights and TV!
We have been keeping it pretty low though so that it will cover the
barn too! So this is the first time I have opted to turn the
computer on! We kept warm with our pot belly stove the first
night! Pretty romantic a wood stove and candles for
atmosphere! ha Today I took Wily in for his hoof check up and
happy to report he is healing! I put him in the barn and gave
him special treatment for awhile in the barn. We decided to
keep him on on antibiotics for a little while longer too! I
met Carol for lunch and we had a good visit! The ice storm has
left over a million folks in our surrounding area without
electricity! We have down high line poles along our road to
the north! One fell on our fence and the lines are across our
drive to the north! We have not even seen a PSO truck yet?
So guess it's good we took our lives into our own hands! That
generator runs about $60 a day of fuel but it's worth every penny.
How accustomed we have become to the easy life of push button lights
and climate control heat from a furnace! We run propane but it
won't run without electricity! ha Will have some pictures to
show you the next time I find time to get back on the computer!
Until then stay warm friends and keep smiling! It can always
get worse! ha We could be in our troops shoes and have
130 degree heat to contend with and hostiles! Never so
bad off it couldn't be worse!
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December 13-17 I made it to my Ya Ya
Sister's Christmas party Saturday night! Even though there was
about an inch to two inches of snow on the ground I was not going to
miss my horse sisters! We all had a great time with our Dirty
Santa gift exchange and Sherry was the perfect Hostess! Would
have been nice had I gotten the right gift in the box for the
exchange! I won't live that down for awhile! ha I got
stuck with the new gag gift the Naked Santa from Cathy! Gosh
now I have to come up with another traveling Santa for next year!
I wonder if Santa can ride a horse? HMM?? My imagination is
going wild! ha By the way check out the YOU TUBE Video of Pico
Cathy's horse and Lauren's dog named Cash. Cash took off with
his lead rope one night and led him around the paddock! I had
to miss that ride of course!
Dog Stealing a
Horse Video Clip Give them a good rating! Over 644
people have viewed the clip already! What a way to make a stars
out of Pico and Cash!
Whew we made it through the last ice storm
in 2007 I hope!! The Lord only gives us what we can handle
thankfully. We were about ready to load cows on pots and head south!
The PSO Crew came late Saturday afternoon and put in the new
highline poles along our road that had fallen into our fence and
pasture. It would have been nice had they picked up the broken
pole and removed it from our fence but they didn't so to keep our
bred cows in I was out in the tractor dark 30 last night getting it
off the fence so we could hang a couple of panels up until we find
time to fix the wires. That was after a day of flushing and
transferring embryos! We ran 90 head of recipients through,
that being ours and our friends cows. We flushed six head and
had moderate to poor flushes this time. We think that the ice
storm and stressful conditions played a big part in the low
production. It's a crap shoot anyway! Some people go to
casino's and some people like my Dear Abbie "FLUSH'S COWS"
Cha Ching! Up goes another cows tail! ha
We made it over to Claremore today to have Dear
Abbie's teeth or lack of examined! Same prognosis as most of
them give him! Quit chewing and you might save some of your
teeth! But we can't make him quit and he probably would give
up the love of his life before giving up chewing tobacco! ha I
am not going to press my luck! ha
Check out the new Web Site for
Bob and Jeanne Heidlage's Photography Site... Checked on Opie
and Jessie the other day and he is growing from all the bottles and
TLC he is getting. He is one spoiled calf!
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We had lunch at Goldie's and then delivered my
gift that was suppose to be in the box to Sherry. She was
happy to get the bracelet with silver horses on it! Sure hope
I get the next gift wrapped and sent to the right people! ha I
must be getting senile or else I am just plain too busy to check it
twice! ha
"Merry Christmas
from our House to Your House!"
Our Christmas Present was a New
Roof for Santa and his Reindeers to land safely on! Now if the Good
Elves could just paint the darn thing we would be in high cotton! ha
All in time.. Maybe 2008 will be the year of PAINTING...the House?
Don't hold your breath! ha I am not going to! Cows come
first at the Thorne Ranch!
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December 18-24 Happy Birthday Dalya
Rae! A busy week of the
same chores around here! At least we did have a few pretty
days that made it not quite so miserable outside. I loaded up
seven head of show cattle and took them to Brian's on Saturday
morning to get their feet trimmed. Abbie and Tiff put out 24
bales of hay in a cold and blustery day! I was happy to haul
cattle. While I was
gone getting feet trimmed we had customers come from Arkansas stop
by. Thanks Buz for stopping, sorry I missed your visit! It was
a miserable day to look at cattle.
We had a great time in Joplin to celebrate our
11th Wedding Anniversary on Sunday evening! Who are those
people that said it would never last? ha We probably
agree on more than we disagree on most of the time! Funny
thing about love and marriage you have to have a best friend first.
He took me shopping and picked out some new outfits for me!
Now if we ever get away so I can wear them. My Carhart coat
and coverall bibs don't make much of a fashion statement. ha
The cows don't seem to mind though! It is going to be me and
Dear Abbie, three dogs, five horses and 100's of cows for Christmas.
All the kids were mostly here for Thanksgiving so they went to the
in-laws this year. That means next year we get to have the
crew. All the two year old will be three and the babies will
be yearlings. Won't we have a deal of a time with them?
We heard from our Australian friends this morning and they were just
going to bed after their Christmas! Sounds like they are
making lots of hay and keeping up with their cattle program.
The pictures to the right are of our seven children close to the
same year. Time does pass when your having fun! Now our
grandkids are getting close to this age! Are we really that
old? Scared to look in the mirror! ha The thing about
age is you change on the outside the inside still thinks your 16-21!
ha I can see us two in an old folks home. Me using a
show stick as a crutch! ha I can visualize Abbie in his wheel
chair running up behind people and scaring the bee daylights out of
them or blowing on the neck of some unsuspecting old lady! ha
I hope that old lady is still me! ha Oh the future looks
bright! ha
When we are driving around one of my favorite past
times is to read signs. Comes from my ability to read them.
When I was in grade school I had bad eyes and they didn't catch it.
So I struggled with black boards and signs along the road growing
up. Probably the thing that intrigues me the most is the
wording! The other day in Langley we saw a "Tax
Office that was a combination Massage Center." So the
theory is you can get your taxes done and then get a massage in the
same facility. Or visa versa get the massage and then get your
Taxes done! ha I would call that a stress reliever and it may
be tax deductible on your tax preparation! ha In Claremore we
came across a "Barber shop and a Pecan Distribution and Nut
Cracking Facility" all in the same building. So I figure
you can get your hair trimmed and then get your nuts cracked at the
same time in that establishment. ha I told Abbie dear that he
really needed a haircut as I have not found time to trim him. ha
He just laughed and said another day thank you!
You all have a
great Christmas Eve and Blessed Christmas Day with your family and
friends and don't eat too many nuts and candies!
Remember Jesus is the Reason for the Season! We will be
holding down the fort at the Thorne Ranch! Ho HO HO! Come
back soon!
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Delynn, Shawna, Shareen and Diann
My girls in 1981 Delynn was showing a Hereford
Steer at the County Fair.
Brian, Whitney and Jeffrey
Abbie's kids in 1976
Merry Christmas and
Happy New Year
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