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[Boatboy24]

"Havasu Falls", Havasu Canyon, AZ

Bucket list. Although the longer I wait, the harder its getting to do.

 

[ibglowin]

Nice place to visit in the early Spring or late Fall!

 

[sour_grapes]

"Havasu Falls", Havasu Canyon,

Bucket list location!

About 5 years ago, we checked a bucket-list item by hiking down to the river (and back up, obviously) at Grand Canyon NP. The down side is that this trip (along with some other SW trips, Zion, Capitol Reef, etc.), make it LESS likely for us to go back and check the many "minor," but probably just as interesting destinations. Maybe if @Kraffty gets us to move to the Verde Valley with him, I could check all those boxes!

EDITED TO ADD: I had not seen Jim's response when I wrote mine!!

 

[jswordy]

End of an era on Sweetpea Farms and I'm a little melancholy about it. The 5/8 black Angus-3/8 Charolais bull I've used for the last 7 years took a trip to the sale barn today. Time to look for a new employee. But he left behind 3 nice heifer calves I'll raise up as mamas, plus whatever's growing in my older cows right now for fall delivery. I'll retain the heifers out of the coming crop, too. They'll be the future, along with my new bull. I've appreciated your help, old boy, and thanks for not running me down in that 8-foot barn galley while I was trying to get you to walk onto the trailer. Standing there looking eye to eye with a bull as tall as I am, I always know what happens is really totally up to the bull.

 

[jswordy]

Finished fabbing the wiring harness link for a little Frankenstein engine swap I've got going on. Electrical engineering without the degree!

 

[Mismost]

Good looking bull Jim. Nice cross. We always called our bulls by the name of Book Keeper...Book Keeper I, Book Keeper II. No bull, no calves, no sales, no books to keep.

 

[jswordy]

Good looking bull Jim. Nice cross. We always called our bulls by the name of Book Keeper...Book Keeper I, Book Keeper II. No bull, no calves, no sales, no books to keep.

Thanks. That was taken a couple years back. He was aged and while still technically sound, breeding was tough on him as far as his back and hips. Boy, he was a good one. I took one look at him in the pasture as a calf and told the man, "YUP." The Angus side was out of a top bull. His calves consistently brought at or very near the top of the day's market prices over the years out of commercial cows cuz that's how they like them in Kansas feedlots. Here's a couple retained progeny, almost exactly six months old. If I get these ~ 40% black Angus/60% Continental girls with the right black Angus bull in 2019, things should be great. I have a few months to look around, since I fall calve. I don't want to breed away the muscles any more than I have to, cuz as you know, we get paid by the pound! The female side of the herd lineage extends back to my father in law's herd. He's been gone awhile now. I still have one crop coming out of the old bull this fall and will retain good prospects from it, too. They're the future now.



Here's the bull the first day he arrived.

 

[JohnT]

Well, my morning sucked!

 

[ibglowin]

I would say so.........

Did you rear end or get it in the rear end? LOL

Well, my morning sucked!

 

[sour_grapes]

Aaaahhh, crap! Sorry about that, JT. Were you the hitter or the hittee?

Hope you're okay!

 

[JohnT]

I was the last car in a 3 car pileup

I am ok.

 

[Boatboy24]

Ouch! Appears you had a 3 car pile-up in a residential area. How does that happen?

In all seriousness, glad you are OK. Cars can be replaced

 

[mainshipfred]

That is a sucky morning, sorry to hear.

 

[jswordy]

Well, my morning sucked!View attachment 48408

Did you immediately start yelling, "OOOOH! MY NECK! WHIPLASH! WHIPLASH!!!!! Get me an ambulance!"

(I know. I always forget about improving my financial future when in those circumstances, too.)

Sorry it happened, but - new car ahead! Glad you are OK.

 

[mainshipfred]

About 5 months ago I was in my first accident ever after 46 years of driving. I too was the third vehicle and go a ticket for following too closely.

 

[Boatboy24]

About 5 months ago I was in my first accident ever after 46 years of driving. I too was the third vehicle and go a ticket for following too closely.

How do they know how closely you were following?

 

[mainshipfred]

How do they know how closely you were following?

He told me I didn't give myself enough room to stop.

 

[ibglowin]

Glad your OK John!

That Mazda is toast for sure!

 

[bkisel]

Sorry it happened but glad you're okay.

 

[geek]

Glad you're ok John, time for a new Mazda?
It looks like the airbag got deployed?