Loss of Leadership - riderless horse oil painting

8X8 Oil on panel $125

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SOLD to a collector in Queensland, Australia

One rein is broken; the other is trailing behind. I can't HELP but make an analogy to our current state of affairs. A horse loaded down with tack - but trailing reins, one broken - is in real trouble. He's hampered by the weight that he cannot remove himself, and since he's been cared for most of his life, finding food might become a problem, too. That rein he's dragging is a hazard, as well. Seems insignificant, but it could cause real problems. He COULD take care of himself without the shackles (taxes?).... See the analogy?
OK - off the soapbox. This is only a horse who lost his rider and now needs help finding his way home. But what about the rider???
Revelation 19:11
[ The Heavenly Warrior Defeats the Beast ] I saw heaven standing open and there before me was a white horse, whose rider is called Faithful and True. With justice he judges and wages war.

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Abbey 4

5 X 7 Sharpie on Index paper $25

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Aunt Abbey and I continue developing our relationship. Now that the weather has finally turned a bit cooler, she no longer needs the sprinkler turned on every afternoon. The flies are becoming an issue, though, especially during milking. She swishes her tail continually and I have become quite adept at dodging it. Fewer flies give her fewer excuses to nail me with it and we are working on that solution - hard to solve, though, without using dangerous chemicals, which kinda defeats the purpose of this whole endeavor...
I thought I would start having fun with a special of the week, and here it is: Buy any painting and get any unsold drawing of your choice FREE (including this one). This offer is good for one week (through next Friday). While supplies last...you know the drill!
Ecclesiastes 10:1
As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
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Life's Not Fair

6 x 8 oil on panel $100

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Life ISN'T fair - and when we were born, that promise was NOT made to us - that life would be fair.
Pretty people get better jobs and handsome ex-racehorses get to graze in the yard. Instead of being jealous of the racehorse, perhaps the donkey's time would be better spent looking for good grazing on HIS side of the fence...making the best of his own situation.
God doesn't promise us everything we want - he DOES promise us everything we NEED, if we only ask for it and thank him when we get it. So many of us don't know we already have it, though...
Numbers 23:19
God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill?
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Adopt a Racehorse

5 X 7 Oil on panel $85

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I have a "racehorse reject" that I care for (Easy) and I found another one down the road - owned by a neighbor.
On my way back from Granbury the other day, I passed her house and noticed a handsome sorrel gelding grazing lose in her front yard. I quickly turned around and pulled into the driveway. Before I could turn the car off, though, she came out the front door with a big smile on her face.
Yes, she knew the horse was lose in her yard....he belonged to her. But as long as his best buddy, a little burro, was safely penned nearby, he wouldn't leave the yard. Instead he grazed contently on the irrigated grass while the donkey hung his head over the fence watching plaintively. (I just thought of a new painting....!) Unlike my Easy, who never won a race, this fellow actually made money for his former owner, but a bad knee, common in older race horses, ended his racing career and potentially his life. But my big hearted neighbor (who also has a pound puppy) is giving him a safe place to comfortably live out his life.
With the drought still having its grip on all of Texas and much of Louisiana and Oklahoma, horses are being hauled to Mexico and Canada for slaughter. I have already shared my opinion of this atrocity and why it is happening. I hope those who were instrumental in closing the US based horse slaughter houses are putting their money where their big mouths are and are adopting the thousands of starving and unwanted horses.
Genesis 42:19
If you are honest men, let one of your brothers stay here in prison, while the rest of you go and take grain back for your starving households.
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Simply a Roper

6 X 8 Oil on Panel $115

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It's amazing what the eye sees and how it interprets paint. This little piece is composed of a minimum of brush strokes, and I opened just 5 tubes of paint. Yet your eye still thinks it sees all the detail.
I KNOW simple is better, yet I continue to complicate my life with more possessions and "labor saving" devices. I'm trying not to, though....I have come to really enjoy the simplest of tasks.
I have found that sweeping the tile floor in the living room is so much more enjoyable than loud vacuuming. Hand whisking egg whites is still noisy, but not as bad as the electric mixer. And leaning into the cow while I milk her has GOT to be more satisfying than hooking her up to a milking machine and flipping a switch.
Proverbs 31:17
She sets about her work vigorously; her arms are strong for her tasks.
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Aunt Abbey the Black Jersey Cow - continuous line drawing

6 X 6 marker on index $25

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Aunt Abbey and I have reached an agreement. I feed her and she lets me milk her. Like horses, food is a great motivator. In addition, I keep the flies off of her, turn a sprinkler on in the afternoon near the tree she likes to relax under (it's so hot that she pants like a dog) and scratch her ears when I'm done milking.
It took three days to save up a couple gallons of milk (we have drunk some and I also have skimmed the cream off). Last night I inoculated it with yogurt and left it out at room temperature to start the cheese making process. Today I add rennet and heat it up to make it curdle. I have not decided if I am going to try to make a hard cheese (this requires a press) or a soft cheese (easier for a novice cheese maker). The critical part of the process is the heating temperature and timing. Just a variance of a few degrees changes the consistency and type of cheese made.
Did you know that the pasteurization of milk destroys the calcium content and many vitamins? I think that must be why the commercial milk label says "calcium and vitamin fortified" - all that has to be added BACK to milk after it's pasteurized. And even more additional calcium must be added if you use pasteurized milk to make cheese - there's not enough available to make the curds. Hmmmmm  This makes me believe that drinking raw milk will help prevent osteoporosis...a real threat in post-menopausal women.
If you are really, really curious about Raw Milk and why so many people are turning to it - CLICK HERE. My kids were fed raw milk when they were little and I am really enjoying returning to it - for a variety of reasons.
Ezekiel 34:3
You eat the curds, clothe yourselves with the wool and slaughter the choice animals, but you do not take care of the flock.
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Cheese Making a Success - so far

Thus far, the cheese making has been a success. I decided to make my first effort a soft cheese, similar to Feta - but without brining. I will add some herbs to it when it has cured a day.

Yesterday I started with Abbey's generous donation of 2 gallons of milk, cream removed. After warming the milk to room temperature, I added 1/2 cup of Greek yoghurt and left it to sit overnight. This morning I warmed the mixture carefully to 86 degrees over a pan of hot water and added 1/2 a rennet tablet dissolved in a tablespoon of water. I left it to sit on the counter.

After a couple hours, it had curdled and I cut the curds with a knife and left it to sit another hour.

Over a pan of hot water, I gradually raised the temperature to 96 degrees, taking a hour to do it. Stirring occasionally, the curds firmed up.

I strained off the whey in a collander and dumped the whole pile into a cheese cloth, tied it up and hung it by the sink to drain further.

Tomorrow I will add salt and garlic to half of it and leave the rest plain.

The left over whey is not going to waste...I am now carefully raising its temperature to nearly boiling and the resulting tiny curds that form now is Ricotta Cheese. Very flavorful.

Abbey the Black Jersey Cow

6 X 6 Marker on Index 

Given away to a regular viewer who answered a question.
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It has been an eventful past two weeks.
My precious Aunt Anne passed away last Saturday, and Mike and I journeyed to Baton Rouge, my birthplace, for her funeral on Thursday. In actuality, it was a joyous passing for her - she lost her husband three years ago and was ready to join him. As usual, I was delighted to visit with so many of my Cajun Cousins and their children (and grandchildren). Cousin Betsy wants a reunion - and so do I. Texas is actually quite nice in January (and so is Louisiana)...Think about it, cousins!
Another event: we have purchased a milk cow - a black Jersey named Abbey. We used to have a milking Shorthorn 30 years ago, and like Abbey, Red Cow was a combination family milk cow/nurse cow. I would get baby calves from local dairies and she would raise them in addition to her own calf. Abbey has been doing the same. She had been nursing 2 calves and came to us with only her own calf, so she has a LOT of extra milk now. We don't yet have a milking stanchion nor is she halter broke, but I can put a bucket of feed before her and she lets me milk her while she's eating. In about 7 minutes I can get a couple quarts from her - more than Mike and I drink in a day, but I plan to make cheese this week...stay tuned. (I promise NOT to turn this blog into a soliloquy on self-sufficiency, but I think most of you out there already know where I stand regarding the need to prepare in advance for emergencies.)
Leviticus 20:24
But I said to you, “You will possess their land; I will give it to you as an inheritance, a land flowing with milk and honey.” I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the nations.

First Day Out

8 X 8 Oil on Canvas Panel $125

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I can only do so many landscapes and birds and other animals...then it's back to the horses. I intend to cover this one with an acrylic polymer which makes the colors POP. There is no way to show what it really looks like on the computer, but it I plan to put it in an upcoming show where it can be viewed properly. (If it doesn't sell first!)

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Genesis 1:20

And God said, “Let the water teem with living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the vault of the sky.”

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Thirty Mile Campground Road to the Headwaters

8 X 10 Oil on stretched canvas $135

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This is a view on the way up Canyon Road to the headwaters of the Rio Grande River. It is on the edge of the Wemenuche Wilderness in South Eastern Colorado. Nearly a half million acres and over 13,000 foot peaks fill this area, and a number of hikers have discovered that not only are there tremendous views and fabulous weather but also great fishing and quiet remoteness. We stayed at Thirty Mile Campground August 6 - 14. The temperature was in the high thirties in the morning and 70's during the day - DEEEEE-lightful!

Matthew 16:2
He replied, “When evening comes, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red,’
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Checking For Scraps - sea gull oil painting

6 X 8 Oil on canvas panel $125.00

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Inland gulls - we were 1000 miles from any ocean at Eleven Mile Campground in Colorado. Yet the lake has a flock of gulls that live there all year (even when the lake freezes over) and they reproduce there, too! They are like gulls everywhere - opportunists - waiting for fishermen to clean their catch. The gulls move in and quickly "bus" the shoreline and make it neat. I love watching them watching ME! They KNEW when I was through fishing and appeared from nowhere, swirling overhead waiting for their meal. I can't help but wonder how they survive the harsh winters there....?
Proverbs 15:1
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.

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Nice Ass - mule and horse painting

6 X 8 Oil on Canvas Panel $125

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I spotted this mule and horse pair on the side of the road near Creede, Colorado and shouted "Pull over, Mike!" I HAD to take their picture! Later that afternoon, during the afternoon rain up in Thirty Mile Campground, I painted them. I am learning to KISS - "Keep It Simple, Stupid".
Psalm 19:7
The law of the LORD is perfect, refreshing the soul. The statutes of the LORD are trustworthy, making wise the simple.

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Sportmobile at Bear Lake Campground, Cuchara, Colorado

6 X 8 oil on canvas panel

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Some of the fun in camping is meeting other campers and getting to view their camping setups.

The folks that own this camper love the wilderness and find it easiest to get to the most remote places with this pretty neat four wheel drive Ford converted into a totally contained camper – they call it a Sportmobile. It is complete with a sleeping loft and kitchen. Every nook and cranny is used for storage – with no space wasted. The owners spent 16 years in Saudi Arabia back in the 70’s and 80’s and took their children camping there – so they are no strangers to camping in “remote” places! I still prefer our big ole RV – especially during the frequent cold rain showers we have experienced – but I could see enjoying their compact and efficient camper, too. They can go places we can only dream about!

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 Isaiah 1:7
Your country is desolate, your cities burned with fire; your fields are being stripped by foreigners right before you, laid waste as when overthrown by strangers.

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WInd Beneath My Wings 2

8X6 Oil on Canvas Panel  $125

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I was born in Baton Rouge and still have very deep roots in Louisiana, despite my Texas accent and my love of things cowboy related. The state bird of Louisiana is the Brown Pelican – this one is NOT that bird.  We see this white variety all through the Rocky Mountain States and clear down to Texas. Their clumsy take-offs are in stark contrast to their gliding ability once they are aloft. With a strong head wind or rising on thermal air currents, they barely need to flap their wings to stay aloft. This one was working to achieve altitude and had not yet raised his landing gear! 
Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and chasing after the wind.

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Ruth 2:12
May the LORD repay you for what you have done. May you be richly rewarded by the LORD, the God of Israel, under whose wings you have come to take refuge.”
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High Trail Trotter

6 X 8 Oil on canvas panel $125

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Running away from a problem only makes facing it later worse. Children will lie about a small thing – putting off the inevitable. Ignoring fiscal responsibility and continuing to live beyond our means only puts off the inevitable and is a childish way to live. Children also want instant gratification and, like children, we have all learned to say “I deserve it and I want it NOW”.  Eventually the time will come to pay the Piper….

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Leviticus 26:21
“‘If you remain hostile toward me and refuse to listen to me, I will multiply your afflictions seven times over, as your sins deserve.

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Run From the Politicians!

6X7 Oil on Canvas Panel $120

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They don’t have a clue as to how to save this country. Spitting on a wildfire will not put it out and making more legislation won’t save the economy.

The GOOD news is that Colorado Sweet corn is the best ever!

AND whatever happens to this country, to this WORLD, I will survive – either here or with my heavenly father. It’s all in His hands anyway – always has been.

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Proverbs 25:25
Like cold water to a weary soul is good news from a distant land.

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Hiding in the Aspens - Eleven Mile Campground, Lake George, Colorado landscape oil painting

6 X 8 Oil on canvas panel $125

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A cool spot to hide within the rocks and aspens…found this little spot on one of my cool morning hikes around Eleven Mile Campground. Georgia goes with us and protects us from the chipmunks and magpies. There’s also a sizeable flock of seagulls that live year round here – inland seagulls…shows how adaptable nature can be. We could learn a lesson from the gulls. Adapt, make do, eat what’s handy and always be ready for change.

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Genesis 4:4
And Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from some of the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering

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Caught in a Maelstrom

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We may be on the edge of civilization here at Eleven Mile, but we ARE following what’s going on in Washington. Our leaders are being pulled in all directions deciding how to save this country from financial disaster. There are no easy solutions – it took us 100 years to get here and we cannot climb out of this hole with one piece of legislation. I do feel that the “Great Ponzi Scheme” is about to end – and go down in flames. You cannot max out your credit cards, borrow from all your neighbors and friends, and keep spending like a madman and expect to survive. Our resources NOT limitless.

Mike quoted me some interesting statistics the other day – Many  United States residents who are defined as living in poverty, still have 2 cars, a 3 bedroom, 2 bath place to live, a wide screen TV and a cellphone. ( And I might add, are overweight). Only in America.

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Deuteronomy 4:27
The LORD will scatter you among the peoples, and only a few of you will survive among the nations to which the LORD will drive you.

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They Must Be Married - Eleven Mile Campground Pelicans oil painting

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At the end of a fishing morning on Eleven Mile Reservoir, one of our fellow fishers cleaned her fish before she left, and the local pelicans and gulls took close notice. They hung around waiting for a chance to come near shore and clean up the guts and heads – opportunists abound everywhere.

Pelicans fascinate me – such HUGE birds with enormous wingspans. It takes a lot of energy for them to gain altitude, but once aloft, their wings maintain lift and they seem to fly effortlessly.  Clumsy on shore yet so graceful in air. Like many of us – in our element we thrive, but put us in high heels and diamonds – OUCHEE! I am SO happy in my camper or in the garden…or the studio.

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Exodus 19:4
‘You yourselves have seen what I did to Egypt, and how I carried you on eagles’ wings and brought you to myself. 

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The Sentinel - Eleven Mile Campground near Lake George, landscape oil painting

The Sentinel

8 X 10 Oil on stretched canvas $150

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It is still over 100 degrees back home, but here at Eleven Mile Campground at about 8700 feet, it’s been in the 40’s when we wake at dawn, and it only climbs to 80 during the day (The locals are complaining this is a HOT summer!) We have very limited phone service and NO internet. To connect with the rest of the world, we have to travel eleven miles to the closest town – Lake George – and use their tiny library’s wi-fi.

The fishing around the lake shore has not been good this year. This is our 4^th trip here and our most disappointing. We DID hire Larry-the-Guide again, though, to take us trolling on the lake in the deep water, and as usual we caught our limit. This year Mike out-fished me by nearly three to one AND caught the biggest fish. After we filled the live well with our legal 8 fish, we played “catch and release’ for another 2 hours – hoping to add some salmon to the freezer. Mike caught several more trout (including 2 small Cutthroats) but no salmon.

A million salmon are released into the lake yearly, but they are a tricky fish to catch. Larry thinks they are succumbing to a gill parasite and not surviving, but no one knows. There’s Northern Pike in the lake, too. We caught one last year and it was delicious, but we didn’t luck into any this year. All the fish we kept  are what’s known as “Cut-Bow” – a cross between the Rainbow and Cutthroat trout. The flesh is a rich pink, salmon color and very good to eat. I ate a whole one for lunch and I may do the same for several days…and yes, Mimi and Grandma, I have saved you each a fish in the freezer!

One of the good things about this trip is the down time – with no outside interruptions, I have actually had time to paint – both the local scenery and my horses. Texas may be fried when we return (THANK YOU FAMILY AND NEIGHBORS for taking care of things!!!!), at least this moment I can be in my “happy place”!

This painting is a view from one of the campsites here – there aren’t many trees close to the lake, but those that are here are tough survivors and all have interesting feature.

Psalm 3:5
I lie down and sleep; I wake again, because the LORD sustains me.

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Arabian Moves 3 - Kiss My A--, PETA

5 X 6 Oil on Masonite Panel $75

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OK - time to get on my soapbox.
First remember that I LOVE HORSES. And BECAUSE I love horses, I reluctantly support the the humane slaughter of horses as a necessity for their survival and well being. I know this sounds like an oxymoron, but follow me on this...
PETA (People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals) has successfully shut down the US businesses that processed horses for overseas consumption. As a result, hundreds of thousands of horses are facing slow, painful starvation.
We are in the middle of a terrible drougth in Texas. I have friends who have owned horses all their lives who can longer afford to feed them (and in some cases cannot even FIND feed at ANY cost). Neither can they afford to "humanely" put them down and have them disposed of. It's a choice between feeding their families or feeding the horses.
I always said if I had an old, beloved horse I would do the humane thing and haul them to the "killer" myself to put them down. We no longer have that option. Fortunately I know where to place a bullet, and we have a large enough piece of land to simply leave the body for the coyotes (yes, I would LOVE to bury my horses, but do you know what a backhoe rents for?) Besides, feeding coyotes and buzzards is the natural way.
My main point is:  thanks to PETA, horses are not facing a quick death at the processor, but instead a long, drawn out, painful starvation death. My friend who has raised high dollar, spectacular horses all her life cannot give them away. Yes, she can take them to the sale barn and for $130 each they'll be loaded into cattle trucks and hauled 1200 miles into Mexico without food or water in this heat. Now THAT sounds humane...
PETA would have been serving animals better if they had concentrated on the quality of the trucking companies and the humane execution of the horses instead of eliminating the procedure all together.
I love horses - always have, but they are still animals. ALL animals deserve to be treated humanely and respectfully, both in life and death. But now, thanks to PETA, who THINK they have the welfare of horses in mind, we are going to see more and more horses first starve and then ultimately destroyed anyway.
Hey, PETA person - will YOU care for the unwanted, the wild and untameable, the permanently injured and suffering and the starving for those who no longer can?
Genesis 1:26
Then God said, “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky, over the livestock and all the wild animals, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.”

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Arabian Moves 2 - Magnum Psyche foal out of Khadraj mare oil painting

 6 X 8 Oil on Masonite panel $125

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Lord's Acre in Bluff Dale, Texas
Sunday October 23

I went to help my friend Tessa pour medicine down the throat of her palomino filly foal a couple days ago and toted my camera along to get pictures of her latest hot stud colt. This has got to be the  most stunning Arabian colt I have ever seen...with a blazing personality and a "presence" rarely seen in 3 1/2 month old babies. He already knows he is destined for greatness.
I know nothing about Arabian pedigrees, so I had to get Tessa to spell the names in this fellow's pedigree - and a Google search turned up plenty of images...no WONDER this boy is exceptional, and my painting no where near does him justice. I will HAVE to go back for more images...if she doesn't sell him first! He's already nearly as tall as his dam and she is weaning him this weekend. THAT's when I'll probably get some good images...
Psalm 145:3
Great is the LORD and most worthy of praise; his greatness no one can fathom.

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Blondes are Beautiful - charolais calves oil painting

28 X 32 1 1/2" Gallery Wrap

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Our friends, the Hodges, raise Charolais/cross cattle - going against the standard of Black Angus in this part of Texas. Not a black hide in the bunch - but a nicer bunch of calves you'll never see - especially in this severe drought. One reason they look so good is their mamas - mostly BrahmanXHerford cows who sacrifice their own health to wean a fat calf. And in the heat of the day, they'll still be up and grazing - unlike all the black angus cows hiding in the shade.
We are still burning up in Texas - no fireworks yesterday except over local lakes and at the Ballpark (where the Rangers smashed the Orioles). Hope you all had a safe and heart warming Independence Day!
Jeremiah 30:17
But I will restore you to health and heal your wounds,’ declares the LORD, ‘because you are called an outcast, Zion for whom no one cares.’
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What Cows Do Best

6 X 8 Ink on index $25

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There's not much grass left in the pasture for this kind of activity. No rain means no grass...and no flowers for the bees. I am feeding them a quart of 50% sugar water a day - and they'd take more. The bees are NOT in a good mood, either. When I removed the empty sugar water jar last night at sundown, they came after me and I got stung on the hand. Now half my right hand is swollen and itchy - not good. Guess I'd better start walking more cautiously around them!
The chickens are cutting back on their laying, too - but good old Moe, the naked-neck chicken, is uglier than ever and still laying the biggest eggs every day. Today's Sunday school lesson for my teenagers was about God not seeing the same way people see. People look at the outside of a person, but the Lord looks at the heart.
Same with Moe - she would end up last place in a chicken beauty pageant - heck, they may not even let her in!!!! But she is the best layer AND the best at getting after the grasshoppers. AND she survived the great coyote massacre of 2010. As far as I am concerned, she is perfect.
1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said to Samuel, “Do not consider his appearance or his height, for I have rejected him. The LORD does not look at the things people look at. People look at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.”

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