'moanin, Voltizens.
I babysat Leo last night so Mrs. Awsum could get a full night of sleep. He needs to go out every two or
three hours to do his business. He sleeps in his crate and whines when he needs to go. He's asleep, again, at my feet right now.
Here's a shot of the Geo Tracker that serves as a work truck. Liz, our friend who owns the farm, swears by them as being super tough and small enough to maneuver around the rocks and narrow spots. With land that can be sold on both sides of the same acre the 4x4 and small size become important. The Geo also has enough ground clearance to ford the river to get to all the pastures.

That's Nakoda, a Dogue de Bordeaux, sitting in the drivers seat. She and Shep, a mixed bred who's a real gentlemen, came with us every time we went out to the cattle.
Here's a shot of "Liz's Livery" with Mrs. Awsum and two of the
three horses she has. The one in the earlier photos lives up near the house in the main barn and is really her daughters' horse.
Here are some of the focus of all that land, hay and work. She has about 80 head at the moment plus about 30 or 40 new calves. I will say farming is non-stop hard work and I don't know how she does it all, even with the part time help she has.
And here is a shot of our hostess on her Honda quad. She uses that most of the time unless she needs to move multiple bags of feed or minerals. In this shot we're on top of a hill in the west pasture. It's about a two or three hundred foot steep slope down to the river below. The next morning we unrolled a roll of hay from there to give the cattle some extra feed, it's been dry there and the grass is kind of short.
