GOTTA LOVE WINTER!

 Winter has set in and it has been a little cold.  So of course that means saddle up.
 I put the blanket on Josie to keep her toasty warm in the trailer.

As always, the latest in cowgirl fashion.

This was on Saturday.  Dave and I went out South and discovered cows had headed into the ranch there. We had to take them back up into the hills.

It was a whopping 11 degrees.  But there was no wind and at times a little sun.  So it actually was quite nice. The mountains and the sky were beautiful.

Then a couple of days ago we went to Garrison to get the cows ready to head East.  By get ready, I mean get the neighbor's cows out and any others that may have snuck into that herd. It was snowing and made for some neat pictures.  This is Clay on Vanilla.

Sometimes I think the cowboys get tired of me always taking pictures.  And let me tell you, carrying the camera and taking pictures from a horse in weather like this is not easy.

Here is Dave on Goucho.  Dave is always a good sport about my picture taking, unless I forget to pay attention to the cows and the job we are trying to get done.

There were several geese in the field.

There was no school this day so we had our youngest cowboy to help.

That was Monday. On Tuesday we headed out.  It was a little windy and not particularly warm.  Actually temperature wise it was around 30 degrees, but with the wind it felt colder than the 11 degrees did the other day. I really hate wind.

So this was my solution to the wind. haha.  Yep I am in there somewhere and giving that cowgirl fashion another new look.

The guys counted the cows out of the gate.  There were 382.  We will need to know that number when we bring them back in in the spring.

We headed out.  We had quite a long journey.  It's funny how the camera doesn't capture the wind.

The water trough.

There was a lot of ice on the trough.  Dave and Clay chopped and chopped.

My favorite picture of the day.

I took this one by mistake.  

The cowboys brought the cows the rest of the way while we, (they) chopped the ice.

Even though the wind blew and the sky was grey, it was a good day on the range.