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Snow On The Homestead

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~TxH~ C’mon by & sit a spell! Come hang out at our Facebook Page . It’s like sitting in a front porch rocker with a glass of cold iced tea. There are lots of good folks sharing! And you can also follow along on Pinterest, Twitter or Instagram If you’d like to receive an email when a new blog post goes live, subscribe to our Blog!

Wow what a surprise this morning! You’ve just got to love Texas weather, it can change in an instant. We love any moisture falling on our pastures but what a pretty way to get it.

~TxH~ C’mon by & sit a spell! Come hang out at our Facebook Page . It’s like sitting in a front porch rocker with a glass of cold iced tea. There are lots of good folks sharing! And you can also follow along on Pinterest, Twitter or Instagram If you’d like to receive an email when a new blog post goes live, subscribe to our Blog!

It was pretty exciting that this shot was shown on the NBC DFW Channel 5 Facebook page – they even changed their Facebook banner to our picture of the cows at the hay ring and gave our Facebook page a shout-out!

We also received a shout-out from Channel 8 on their noon newscast when they showed our photo as well.

And finally, we received the Picture of The Week designation for this shot from KXII Channel 12 News.  What an exciting day at our homestead!

~TxH~

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God’s Perfect Pallette

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There are many talented and acclaimed artists that have painted masterpieces that are desired by many, but to me none can hold a candle to God’s perfect palette in autumn. #TexasHomesteader

As I step out I feel a noticeably crisp feel in the air. I hug my sweater a little closer around me to ward off the chilly breeze. Along my way I can’t help but to notice the undeniable change of the season. Bright yellow leaves flutter …softly and silently downward to gather along the pathways and under the trees.

The blaze of brilliant color in various hues on the trees delights the senses and I stop briefly to take it all in. There are many talented and acclaimed artists that have painted masterpieces that are desired by many, but to me none can hold a candle to God’s perfect palette.

~TxH~

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Trouble In Paradise STILL Means You Live In Paradise!

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Trouble in paradise STILL means you live in paradise! #TexasHomesteader

We live where we feel is the most perfect place on earth for us, beautiful and soul-fulfilling. We value what we do for a living and we are careful and gentle with our animals. But even with our mindful attention to detail there are occasional mishaps.

One of our stocker cows has jumped fence into our neighbor’s pasture and retrieving her has proven allusive. Time to call in the big-guns for help, so I’m sure she will be home soon! But to offset this somewhat negative post, I’ll post a picture of the some week-old cuteness!

~TxH~

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Do What You Love & You’ll Never ‘Work’ A Day In Your Life!

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A wise woman once told me to do what I truly loved for a living and I'd never "work" a day in my life. Message heeded. #TexasHomesteader

I’m amazed that I get to awake to this view
Every.
Single.
Morning.
I love where we live and I love what we do for a living. A wise woman once told me to do what I truly loved for a living and I’d never “work” a day in my life. Message heeded.

~TxH~

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Being Proud Of The Reflection You See In The Mirror

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Honesty & integrity keeps you proud of the reflection you see in the mirror. #TexasHomesteader

The spring grass is coming in and we want to buy stocker calves to fully utilize the excess pasture that’s not being consumed by our registered Hereford herd.  We went to the auction today and bought 4 new calves. After paying for our purchase we backed the truck with our goose-neck trailer to the loading area and our calves were loaded onto our trailer.

As we were pulling out and I was looking over our sales ticket I noticed they made a sizable error on the weight of one of the calves we had just bought, resulting in us paying several hundred dollars less than we should have.  I brought this to my husband’s attention and we immediately found a place to pull over and park as we both looked over the ticket and confirmed what we thought was an error.

Together we went back inside, waited in line and brought the error to their attention at the sales desk.  They confirmed that their scales had apparently failed to reset from the calf that was sold before ours, resulting in our calf being priced out at the weight of the smaller calf that was previously sold. (apparently this happened for several calves after ours as well) We got back in the truck, navigated back through the crowded auction parking lot to the loading chute and unloaded the calf.  The auction folks ran him back through the scale, had him re-weighed and reloaded him for us.  We then parked the truck again, went back inside and wrote the auction a check for the difference we owed. The auction personnel were of course very appreciative for the honesty.

It was frustrating for this seemingly quick 4-calf purchase to take this much longer than anticipated, but it was well worth the extra time and the extra cost because we’re still proud of the reflection in the mirror, and that’s what it’s all about!

~TxH~

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