After seeing my pond froze over for a month, it is nice to see flowing water in the winter time. But then you can’t go ice skating on a creek that never freezes over.
I wonder how many daring kids tried crossing the creek across the log.
Wintertime Creek
It appears this Hereford bull isn’t real thrilled about walking through the snow but I wouldn’t to be at the bottom of a hill if he was tobogganing.
Herefords derived their name from Herefordshire, or the county of Hereford, in the west of England. Benjamin Tomkins is given credit for developing the breed. A primary founder of the breed, Tomkins began in 1742 with a bull calf from the cow Silver and two cows, Pidgeon and Mottle. Herefords in the 1700’s and early 1800’s were much larger than they are today.
Henry Clay, Kentucky statesman, brought Herefords, one cow, one heifer and one bull, to the United States in 1817. Then, in 1840, William Sotham and Erastus Corning, of Albany New York, established the first recorded breeding herd in America with the purchase and importation of 22 head of Herefords from Herefordshire. Among other renowned early Hereford breeders were Charles Gudgell and Thomas A. Simpson of Missouri. Their big break came with the importation of Anxiety 4, a bull credited as being the “father of American Herefords.”
Now more than five million pedigree Hereford cattle exist in over 50 countries.
Bull in the Snow
The sun is shining today and the bright, white snow sure makes the red barns stand out more. I had shingled the roof of milkhouse which is on the other side of the big barn twenty five years ago (when I was much younger!) but at least it wasn’t the big barn roof as that has a farther drop to the ground.
Red, White and Blue
As I continue the ‘red barn’ week, today picture is a lot of red barns and while not a rustic as an old red barn would be, it is a fitting picture for today as these red barns are on my parents farm and today is my dad’s birthday. When they purchased the farm (before I was born), all the barns and buildings were white but after a couple of tornadoes removed a couple of the barns, they were replaced with red ones. When it was only one red and the old white barn, it was easier to know where to go but now it is the middle barn or the back barn which works fine until my brother decides he needs another barn for his machinery. So would the middle barn become the ‘old’ middle barn and would the new one become the ‘way back’ barn? Maybe they should have different names but my brother is not quick in naming things and that is why one of his bulls were named Gertrude since my sister named it since my brother didn’t hurry up fast enough!
Lots of Red
Another barn for the ‘red barn’ week and it appears there are couple of rocks in the field that haven’t been picked yet but they are a little small so easy to be overlooked!
Red and Rocks
There might be some people with red, blood shot eyes this morning if they were ringing in the new year last night so I thought today’s picture should be a red one but since it is the new year, that it also had to be ‘new’ and ‘red’ so this new red barn can start off the red barn week.
Happy New Year Everyone!
New Red Barn
The remaining standing part of this old corral might not be able to withstand another heavy snowfall.
Old Corral in Wintertime
This truck doesn’t look like it can outrun the next snow and fits very well into this ‘old’ week since due to the lack of vent windows, this old Chevy truck was built between 1947 to 1950. (Since I didn’t go trespassing to see were the gas tank or shifter was mounted, I couldn’t narrow down the age more precisely but I’m sure others would know just by looking at it. But since the gas cap appears to be by the passenger door and that the side hood emblem appeared to have been a longer one stating Loadmaster or Thriftmaster, then that would narrow it to early 1949.)
Old Chevy
There is a cowboy singing group from Montana called the Ringling 5 (even though more than 5 singing), who sing a song called “If Jesus was a Norwegian” and one of the lines is that there would be no December birthday as he would have been frozen where he lay. And that would have been was very true this morning since it was -5 out on this Christmas morning.
Wishing everyone a very Blessed Christmas even if it is a rather chilly one here!
Merry Christmas!
If you want to hear the song, even if they don’t show the cowboys singing it, you can hear it on YouTube at the link below.
Nature has decorated the trees outside, just in time for Christmas and a little extra decoration was added this morning, but all the decorations seem to be one color – white!
White Decorations
