Loving My New Camera

So I got my camera on Friday and I LOVE IT! I still have a ton to learn, but it is soooo cool! Here are some pictures I took around the house this weekend. I was hoping for more, but I ran 22 miles yesterday and I am a little tried...so this is all that I got. I hope to go out around sunset sometime this week and play...I will share if I make it out!

We have had such a great weekend! Arturo had to work yesterday morning and I ran 22 miles yesterday. The run was really good, most of all my nerves are gone for the race. Less than three weeks I will be running 26.2 miles! How crazy is that? Today I helped at a road race and then came home and have been doing laundry and knitting. Arturo has been working on his chaps all day that are going to be way cool! Here are some of the pictures of the chaps!

Cutting out the bell or the bottom of the chaps.

Working on putting our family brand on the bell.

The bell after it has been stamped. Pretty cool, huh?

I bought this coffee cup for Arturo when we were in MT. It says Cattleman on it...I thought it was cool and he must think that it is pretty cool too, because he uses it almost every day.

This is the yok of the chaps. I think that this is just beautiful work. I will share pictures once they are complete!

Have a great week everyone!

Changes in the future...begining with a new toy!

Look what I ordered today...

That’s right my very first DSLR camera! I am so excited...I cannot wait for it to get here. It should arrive on Friday! So look for lots of pictures this Sunday...I hope to be shooting like a mad woman!


I posted a while back about wanting a change...well this is the beginning of that change. I will share more and I am sure most of you will guess what I am talking about, but I am not ready to reveal my plan, dreams and goals just yet! Stay tuned, it will be soon, when I am strong enough to share those with you all! 

DARE

Last night I took a Yoga class. At the end of the class the instructor read a poem for an inspirational thought. I am not much into poems or quotes for inspiration; I am inspired by many things. People, places, and much more.  Anyway, the poem that the instructor read was really good, it was titled DARE, I think! What I took from the poem was dare to be great, dare to be you, dare to be happy! There were lots of other dares, but those three are the ones that really hit home for me. So I dare you to be great, dare to be you and truly you, and dare to be happy!

Have a great day everyone!

Meet Your Meat

This morning I picked up the K-State Collegian. I usually do not read the school newspaper, but this morning I got here early and decided to give it a once over. Well it sure did get my day off to a fiery start! An opinion column basically bashing the livestock industry is what really got my day off to the fiery start.

Here is a little from the Meet Your Meat by Beth Mendenhall:
Bacon is delicious. I know it, you know it, even the pigs probably know it. Despite its tastiness, however, eating meat is bad for the environment and human health and causes billions of animals to suffer needlessly.


Albert Einstein once said, “Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet,” and he was right. This is especially true today as mechanized industrial farming has become the norm for poultry and swine production, and cattle feedlots have increased drastically in size and number.


Livestock agriculture is the leading cause of soil and water pollution, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. This is due in part to over fertilization of food crops — there is simply too much excrement and not enough land to absorb it without causing massive runoff into the water table. Waste from processing facilities, like Tyson’s meatpacking plants, adds to the problem. A U.N. report also identified factory farms as the leading cause of anthropogenic (human-caused) greenhouse gas emissions, more so than all modes of transportation combined. Simply put, our environment was not meant to handle the massive amounts of waste produced by industrial livestock operations or the fossil fuel emissions required to ship meat from rural communities to cities.

You can read the rest of the article by clicking here.

We have all heard these "stories" and myths before, and we all know that they are not true. We all know that the industry that we love and work in is full of hard working, compassionate, caring men and women. We know that farmers and ranchers care for their land and their animals because they are their livelihoods. We know that these farmers and ranchers work so hard to provide a safe, wholesome and delicious product for this country and the world.

I am asking you to make a comment in the comment section of this article to help correct the "stories" Beth is telling in her opinion piece.

Thank you and remember to EAT BEEF!