Very last post of 2011

Well I suppose I could go through alllllll of my pictures I've taken this year and pick out my best ones, but that would probably take a couple days or months.  So I think I'll just post some of my recent favorite  ones:)

Happy New Year to all my dear followers:)

^This is what happens when all three of the dogs stay in the house because it's "cold" outside...the deer invade the yard!  -shakes head- just another typical day in the country!

Anyway, I'll be back tomorrow to post all of my Christmas goodies that I got!  

But for tonight, I would like to wish all of my followers a very Merry Christmas!:)  

Hope all of yall have a great Christmas and a blessed New Year! 

Lots of Love,

Josie

Today

-Yawn-  I'm already ready for bed!  But here I lay on the couch, watching the NRF with Sadie.  So I figured I'd post a few pics I took this evening...

Doc(my 3000lbs plow horse) and Bo Bo in the demolished round bail

Ol Blakey Poo

Tonight's sunset

Mama deer with her babies and another doe

The reason my dogs are gonna be raisin Cain all night!

Hmm well today hasn't been too exciting...just hung around the house and tried to stay warm!  Finished decorating the Christmas tree and assisted Little Britches in putting Christmas lights on dad's deer skulls above the fire place(yes, we're so redneck-y that we decorate our deer skulls/mounts)  Anyway what else...OH!  I got my hair cut and colored yesterday annnnnd I'm now....

I should really think about cleaning the mirror in my bathroom.

Blonde!  That's not the best picture but you can still see my blllloooonnnde hair!!haha

So yeah that's been the highlight of my week.  

We did a little Christmas shoppin yesterday when we went to ol P-town.  Managed to pick up presents for both of my aunts, uncle's girlfriend, cousins, best friend, Little Britches and mama let me pick out a G.O.R.G.E.O.U.S turquoise necklace for myself...but it had to be wrapped up and put under the tree:/  Haha oh well I guess I'll just halfta wait till Christmas to wear it!

Welp I guess that's all I got to post about tonight!

Yall have a good evenin'!:)

Ol December

Hmm already December is it?  Doesn't seem like it should be but I guess it is.  And of course that means Christmas shopping and everything that entails, colder weather, watching the NRF Finals with dad, and all that good stuff.  Deer season ended with a bang(literally) last Friday when I killed this big honk daddy of a buck;

Me with the bestest huntin guide in the world, ol daddy:)

That was seriously the LONGEST I've ever hunted for a deer.  Oh and get this, after hunting all over the place, I killed him about 60 yards away from the yard fence when he chased a doe through the horsetrap.  The horses weren't too bothered with it, seein's how all they did was trot back towards the barn after I shot.

Away that's been about the biggest excitement around here in the last couple weeks.

Tomorrow we're goin to town to do some Christmas shoppin and I'm gettin my hair cut + some blonde highlights in it.  

It's sure enough turning into winter out here in the Osage; just plain ol COLD!  I'm talkin hooded sweat shirts, Carheart coats, wild rags and felt hats every time you go outside. Now if it would just snow, I'd be happy!

I guess that's all I've got to post about tonight, I'll try to get some new pics and post 'em soon!

I'm baaaack! With Buffalo Workin pics!

Hiiiii!  Remember me?  Yep I'm back.  Again.  And I got pictures!  Lots and lots of pictures of the buffalo working!

How would you like to run everyone of these huge beasty's through a cattle squeeze chute?  Maybe chase them down the alleys at the buffalo pens in a feedtruck that has no brakes(At. All.)?  Stand on a catwalk beside the tub and push them into the chute with rattle paddles and hot shots?  Yall have no earthly clue what I'm talking about huh?  Alright let me explain....

Every November all 2700(+/- a few) head of buffalo that the TGP runs up here, get gathered into the traps by the buffalo pens. Day after day they get sooked into the traps, each trap being smaller and closer to the pens than the last.  Finally a few(about 45 to 50 I'd say) get pushed into a holding pen by the pens and eventually they're pushed thru a maze of alleys and they end up here:

Dad and Lee latching a gate

In the main big alley.   They sort off about 10 or so and run them up the alley closer to  the tub...

Then they get pushed into the tub itself...

That'd be Miss Lauren up there with a hot shot

Greg( in the white shirt) and Lauren trying to get the buffalo lined out

Then one by one the buffalo are pushed into the chute(thats there by Lauren)....

Kevin, Dad, Greg, Lauren and Lee.

Annnd then while everybody up at the front chute takes care off the buffalo (i.e gives them shots, checks ear tags ect ect), everybody at the back has important life conversations about hot shots not working:

Dad and Kevin

Lauren and Lee

Lauren being very bored.

Waiting....

Into the chute....

Annnnnd then.....

They end up down here at the big chute, where Perry, Bob, Jack and Danny give them their yearly checkup.

Mr. Jack getting ready to give a buffy a shot

Perry waiting for Bob to come check the ear tag on this buffalo

Danny running the chute 

Danny and Bob

And then after everything's done...

....away they go out into the pen and wait to be turned back out!

And 7 days later, they're all turned back out into the big pastures...the calves were branded and ear tagged, old bulls and cows were sorted off and sold and everything was happily ever after, the end!

Whoa whoa whoa wait a minute.  This post AIN'T over with!

Now for more pics!  We had my uncle, his two girls, Jaime(his lady friend), her two boys, my aunt, Little Britches, mama, and me at the pens.  

Little Britches, Me, Rylee, Raylin(cousins), Jack, and Jaime holding Jared

Jack, me and Jared looking at the buffalo

Something must've been funny

We spent probably 5 hours at the pens watching the guys work the buffalo, then we came home, jabbered and talked, everybody left, I thanked God in heaven above that I survived the day with all the kids ect ect.  Hahaha just kiddin, It was a fun day!

I took 335 pictures that day, I spent the next day editing them and making up a picture slide show dvd for all the guys.  Then finally on the last day of the working, I gathered up all the DVDs  and headed for the shop.  Everybody liked it :)  

After 2 or 3 hours, everybody started to clear out and that wrapped up Buffalo Workin 2011.....it surprisingly went over well, none of the trucks got tore up too bad, nobody go run over, dad didn't smack anyone with a rattle paddle...all that good stuff.  Hahaha   

I can't wait till I turn 18 so I can go work at the buffalo working :)   

So ok I guess this post can be over with now!

The end!