Branding - Plagiarism at its Best

Last weekend after we got home from a two-day basketball tournament watching Jill, we went to a branding at Dixie's house. My cool friend Marilee posted it on her blog, so I am just copying her words and pictures. My additions are in italics.

This is my cool friend, Marilee

When it is branding time people seem to come out of the woodwork. Trucks and trailers just kept coming with people of all ages, from little babies to grandmas and grandpas.

Our truck is the white one in the back

Look at all these friends and family that came to help Dixie with her cows. Country folk are nice like that.

I am standing by the gate holding Carly.

After the mammas are separated then you have to get the babies one by one to brand them. Here they rope the babies, hold them down, then do their thing. This is Austin, he is the Jr. High Principal and the teachers' quorum advisor for Neal.

Girls do this sort of thing too. That is Raven in the green and she is one of my Mia Maids. Jill is there too, she is a Beehive but would like to be with the Mia Maids, anyways, her dad is Austin. She has three sisters and they can all ride. Her mom Kaylynn learned how to load horses into a trailer and haul the trailer this year. I think that is amazing that she can do that all by herself. When she married Austin she didn't know a thing about horses and now she is an old pro.

Here is Jill and her grandpa, Buck, showing her the ropes of wrangling a calf.