GETTING READY TO HEAT UP AGAIN......!!

It's been cooler the last few days, which is nice.  Unfortunately it comes with humidity which isn't so nice.  BUT, also a little rain, we've gotten about 2/3s of an inch John said.  

We have an ocotillo planted by the kitchen window.  It's never bloomed, but this year it has leafed out 3 times.  They usually drop their leaves when it starts getting drier, this year everything time we get a little bit of rain, it leafs out again.  Poor thing will be exhausted by fall at this rate.....!! LOL

We've had enough wind to "help" the trees drop the mesquite beans and although the ground under the trees is covered with beans, the trees are starting to look rather bare.  

Yesterday morning when we were doing chores Jasper was acting crazy, running around in his pen, which isn't that large, ears pointed NW of the house and in general letting me know he wasn't happy.  We had heard some of the range cattle in that area and every once in awhile one of the bulls would grunt, guess Jasper didn't like that.  I asked John to bring a halter and rope for us to move him to another pen.  I put the halter on him, Suzanne said she'd take him.........well, as soon as the gate opened he took off like a race horse, so fast she didn't have a chance to let go of the lead rope.  She let go pretty quick only one little rope burn on her palm......LOL  He actually headed for his old pen, which is where we were going to put him anyway.  

All is quiet today, John went down to check the outside gate on Burroland.  We've had it open for a couple of weeks, but hadn't seen or heard any cattle over there except once awhile back.  John said there was tracks all over inside the gate where they have been roaming around..........YIPPEE!  any beans they eat, we don't have to wait for them to rot.  We even had some apples to throw around in there, in case they got bored with beans.  

I am still changing Macho Man's pressure bandage on his leg.  It's looking pretty good, I took a picture this morning and thought it looked like it was getting smaller.


It looks like there is more of a demarcation line between the good skin on the outside and the bad skin in the middle, but other than that it looks about the same.

Hopefully it is getting better