And supper and lunch and breakfast… By the time we’re through with this butcher steer our children should be a couple of inches taller and quite a few pounds heavier. I think this just might be one of my favorite things of farm / ranch life… raising our own home raised beef! Bom, bom, bom (play Aaron Copland’s Rodeo Hoe Down).

Taking the ponies off the picket lines and putting them away for the night.