fishing and the new beach

Colby and I decided to go fishing this sunday because he is slowly coming out of lockdown. we tried a couple of ponds but no luck so we tried our new pond to see how big the fish are getting HUGE is the word colby used. we caught 16 crapie and 2 bass they were very nice. Here is a pic. of the bass and crapie. he seems to be happy.

The new Beach is what come to mind when colby and I returned from fishing. Emma told me that she needed some shade in the yard so she planted some shade. Only Emma! Is what I thought...had to show andrea, she thought something had to be going on when Emma went by the window with the umbrella. till next time vance

spring Fever

Hopeful we have seen the last snow for the winter so we made the best of it by giving rides on the sled behind the 4-wheeler.the kids had alot of fun about all they could say is go faster or emma would say colby fell off I think she had something to do with that.

A fifty degree day in march is like a eighty degree day in may you've gotta love it. so i've been out side doing some spring cleaning and fixing of my own. pic of the lights that work once agian in the garage. see there on.

Do you see what i see ,oh ya green grass can't wait

Just another day

Hi everyone back to the com. not much going on but work come home work eat play with kids go to bed. Don't have a lot to say but i'll post a picture. hope you enjoy it.

ice storm in south missouri

this ice storm in south missouri can not be summed up into words, but if it was the only one that I can think of is tragic. This a pics. of a dog at JD Plunkett's one of the happy customers we got power to while in hytie mo. This was one of the few animals we saw down there. notice the downed powerlines in bottom of the pic.

this is a picture of guess who, yours truly tying in the new powerline

This was a great moment the pole that i am on below has a transformer on it that feeds one light down the street in the town of hayward while tying it in i hooked the light up on the way down. two days later when we turned the power back on to some people, low and behold i see the light come on. talk about a good feeling. the next day on the way to work on another piece of line the words Thank You were wrote on a cardboard box set at the side of the road. Those words made everything worth it.

more pic. of downed poles and some ice

HOME SWEET HOME is what we call this place the first night there. Hope you have enjoyed some picture of the storm.

coming home to the family was the highlight of the whole trip. vance

Roping fever

I think I have roping fever,so i'm going to try my luck friday night in a ten head match roping in Iowa. this winter has been so long and cold that I just have not had anytime to rope or just do anything with the horses besides feed them. I keep thinking warm weather is just around the corner maybe next week. here's some roping pic's from this past summer.

Life with Colby

The big talk latey is western cattle for those of you that asked him what he wanted for christmas was western bull and cow. guess what ya your right the real thing is now on the list for his birthday. So everyone let's see you come up with a herd of herford cows and a bull by may. He's a blast to work with. Someday he'll be a good aset to the farm, he's already a huge help. see he's aready learning how to drive the tractor.

he's got a hayrack and a good boss. this is the hayrack we redone this summer.

He's got the pen's to hold his cows,and the boss right behind making sure things are done right.

This a pic. of colby with his western skull mike,and jesse Gray give him for helping at the roping pens.

More Ice Fishing/ Emma's pony

Sunday was a great day for fishing also and we caught a lot of fish almost a full five gallon bucket full. here some pics. that everyone likes to see. Don't let the pic. with the bucket mess you up there was another bucket to.

this is the final result yummy.

this is Emma's little pony we finally got her weaned and home so she can spoil her. she tells me she will take care of her every day we'll see. she also rode along when we picked her up tonight. she looks like a fuzzy little fur ball with legs short legs.