Meanwhile, Back at the Ranch… (A 50-50 Day)
What’s Happening at the Ranch
This week, you’d better cinch up the stampede string on your hat, put a lid on your coffee, and find some windbreak — you’ll need all three.
It sounded different around here this week.
After five days, the heifers finally quit bawling for their mothers. We moved the cows back out with the main bunch and turned them into fresh pasture — bulls and all — and they quite settled in again at home.
Yesterday, we brought the first-calf heifers home, grouped them up with the heifer calves, and moved them back out together.
They’re in the Taj Mahal pasture again — the same one as last winter — with a solid wood calving shed, good windbreaks, and about 30 deer who seem to think it belongs to them.
Which was a good thing, because today was one of those classic Montana days: 50 degrees and a 50-mph wind.
We also got this photo from a customer this week — an 18-month-old beef eater, already part of the next generation.
It made me smile, because not long ago we shared a photo of my dad — 90 years old — still eating the same beef raised on this ranch.
That’s who we raise beef for. And every generation in between.
Steak boxes are heading out next week, and we’ve had a steady stream of beef shares reserved — families planning, stocking freezers, and taking one more decision off their plates.
For those of you who’ve asked how we plan meals around ranch life, full freezers, and busy weeks, I finally wrote it down.
We call it The Meat Anchor — it’s not a meal plan or a diet, just the way dinner stays simple when the foundation is handled.
Thanks for following along with us — wind, bawling heifers, steak boxes, and all.
P.S. We’ll have a fresh batch of teriyaki beef sticks coming in next week, which means Trail Sticks will be shipping again.
