Photo Contest

This Beautiful Life is having a photo contest that I am entering.  Here are my photos.

This one I took outside of the Market I worked at.

This is our gelding Dusty.

Morgan before a ride with a few of the younger horses in the background.

These are all un-edited.  The only thing I would have done is crop them.  All the other photos looked great, so go check it out!

Yes, I do have a few pictures from our weekend that will be coming up soon!

Love,
Rebecca

Pictures of Weaning

Here are some pictures from our weaning this year.  Mom was sick that day :(  which is why she isn't in the pictures.  We sure missed her. 
Yes, it is a long post of pictures, but I couldn't delete any!!! :)

The first two pictures are of Josh after he cleaned out our chimney.  :)  It has been so nice to have a warm fire going on cold evenings. 

Josh and Dad cooked us breakfast Saturday.  It was pretty good, too.

Feet!

Caleb working gates.

Sarah working the sweeptub.

Lady doing..... nothing.  Lazy dog...

Sarah and Joshua.

That's all folks!

Rebecca

Happy Farm

Sarah found this "Happy Tractor" and told me to get a picture of it.   It is pretty cute. 
~Rebecca

October

Can you believe it is already October? Wasn't it just spring?

Things are going well at the Heckendorns. We are getting prepped for shipping yearlings out, and weaning, tattoing and weighing the calves. The cows are looking good, too. The grass has been wonderful and they are slicked off. 

It is thundering and raining!! There is nothing like a rainy day to make you want to curl up with your family all around. We are all looking forward to winter with fires, cocoa, and cozy family time. Did I say I have a cat in my lap? Cats are such good lap warmers….especially when they are purring. I think a couple of us have sleeping cats on our laps. (It is raining outside so we felt sorry for them.)

We are all done with harvesting at the Schwebachs. It was such a blessing while we had it; but we are all glad to be done. It makes for some long days. Now it is getting ready to work cows.

 Our family is looking forward to the end of October. The guys are going to go hunting and the girls are staying home and sewing, quilting, watching movies, eating foods the boys don’t like.... The guys are taking some little bulls to Tucumcari to the bull test there. They will stay with my grandparents and hunt deer on their ranch.

These are pictures I took at the Market of some pumpkins.   Doesn't the first one look like an old man?

 

Blessings!

Rebecca

Pictures of the Kitties and Lady

I went outside with my camera the other day and had a fun time getting some shots of the kittens, cat and Lady (our dog).  It was fun to pick up my camera again, and love the photos that came out.  (OK, I always delete some of them, but that just happens..... )

Below is our lovely Lady

Here are all of our cats  

I had a lot of fun watching the kittens play and trying to wait and get some good shots.  It is hard to get animals to look at the camera, so I was pretty pleased with how the pictures turned out.  We have all enjoyed getting to have some kittens- instead of giving them away just when they were getting to the fun stage!!  They can purr too.....

Through His Redeeming Love,

Rebecca

Bampa.. a tribute

I am a little early in getting this posted, but as we will be gone this coming weekend, I wanted to get this post done. :-)

On Monday the 12th of July it will be a whole year that my beloved grandfather (lovingly known as 'Bampa') passed away.  He suffered through pancreatic cancer for a whole year and half, maybe longer.

Bampa was not my biological grandfather, but I never thought of him as a 'step' grandfather.  He was always just Bampa.  He loved us tremendously and didn't care that we were "related".   I was able to enjoy 17 full years with him, though I suppose when I was a baby, I didn't care much!

Bampa was always so very kind.  I loved how he always made me feel important and never gave up on me.  He was always there to encourage me in my fiddle playing, book writing, and whatever projects I might be doing at the time.  His famous question was always "What have you been up to?" and it was always the YOU that caught my attention.  He never wanted self admiration.  He only cared about others around him and had such a great interest in what others were doing.  You could always try to talk about what he was doing, but he somehow always turned the conversation around so that you were once again talking about your self.

I was his little princess, though I am not the only princess he had.  However, he always made me feel like I was the most important person in the world, no matter what.  I didn't have to worry about how my hair looked, or how I dressed to get his approval.  He loved me for who I WAS, not for who I looked like or acted like.

Whenever my Nana would take me on my special birthday lunch, and he needed to come along for some reason or other, he always let me sit up front.  It was my time with Nana, not his, and he made sure I enjoyed myself to the fullest.  He was always putting me first and wasn't selfish.

Bampa always had such an interest in life.  He was always willing to learn new thing, meet new people, and go to new places.  He absolutely loved living on the ranch, and though he grew up in Brooklyn NY, he could sure fool you with his cowboy costume.  :-)

He loved working the cattle, giving the shots, running them through the chute, whatever needed to be done, he was there.

Although he lived right behind our house, not more than five steps away, I could never get enough of him.  Any time I popped up for a visit, he was always there to give me a big hug and kiss and tease me like no one else.

Any time we came home from a bull sale, all of us kids would rush up to tell Nana and Bampa how the sale went and what not.  They were always so supportive of us.

Now it is no longer "they, them, or y'all".  It is only "her, she, and you."  However, Bampa lived a wonderful life and enjoyed it to it's fullest.  There was never a dull moment when he was around.

I love you, Bampa, and miss you so much.

Sarah