Ollie the Cow Dog

Eric, Ollie, and I headed up to the ranch in Oklahoma after work on Friday for some time away from the city.  For those of you that don't know, Eric's family has a working cattle ranch in Oklahoma. Ollie was so excited he did not sit down the entire car ride there. He loves going to the ranch. We got their pretty late Friday night, but we were still able to enjoy sitting on the porch for a little while before we had to go to bed. We had a 6:00 am wake up call the next morning! Eric failed to tell me (on purpose) that this was the annual calf round up weekend and in the morning we would be gathering all the calves and cows and running them through the shoot. Once a year, they all need shots, growth hormone implants, dehorning, and not to gross anyone out, the little boys go from being a bull to being a steer, if you know what that means. Don't worry, my job in this whole ordeal is just to write down the sex of the calf. Easy and clean enough usually. 6:00 am came early, but it was a beautiful,cool morning. We had a quick breakfast of waffles and pancakes and gulped some coffee and headed out for the day.

Here come the cows.

This year we had two real "cowboys" on hand to help us out. These guys were pros, in fact one of them is a professional roper. They had the cows in the holding pens in record time.

The Donkeys - Mo and Pepe

Ranch Dogs - Ollie and Lucky

One of the three bulls

Cute baby calf

Eric's Mom and one of the Cowboys in the background

Ollie being a good cow dog

Kisses for Dad 

You don't even want to now what he was licking off of him!

There were about 90 mamma cows and 60 baby cows. You can imagine how lovely it smelled out there! We actually got done with the working part of the day by lunchtime and spent the rest of the afternoon driving around and checking out the property. It is really a beautiful ranch. Eric's mom made her special corned beef for dinner and then Eric and I headed home. On the way back to Dallas, we got caught in a huge storm. Ollie was a nervous wreck so I had to sit in the back with him the whole way home. Luckily we made it home safely!



We went to Easter service at Lovers Lane United Methodist Church and then went to my parents to have Easter lunch with them, my grandmother, my uncle, my aunt, and my cousins. We had a yummy ham and enjoyed sitting around and catching up. We were able to get home pretty early and have a relaxing Sunday evening. I hope everyone had a very Happy Easter!