workin' hard at the stock show!

a pic is worth a thousand words, right?

here's hans, working on making the heifer dry or fluffing the hair and making her pretty, i can't remember, we did a whole lot of both! the thing that looks like a vacuum isn't, it blows instead of sucks....

and when i say that we spent a whole lot of time washing, drying, fluffing and shining the girls, i mean it! they were washed or rinsed everyday, then they had to be dried, because as you can see, it was slightly chilly there...then after you wash or rinse them, of course there is all the grooming to be done! holy moly, I'VE never even had that much grooming. but they did look really good when it was all done. and our 3 girls were just in the sale. the show cattle usually have 4 to 5 people working on them at a time, all day long!

here's hans drying the heifer with a sham wow. yup, i'm totally serious! we spent more time trying to dry off the heifers than anything, so after watching the demo of the sham wow "up on the hill" at the trade show, we bought some and put them to really good use! they saved us a lot time, which was good because that morning that we used them it was cold and foggy.

check out hans' soaked rain gear. because there was limited space to wash cows and everyone washes their cows, you end up getting completely soaked. there was just no way to stay dry. you should have seen the people that weren't prepared with the proper outer wear!

this is my lil bro jake....or jakey, as i like to call him. (yes, i'm aware of the terribly composed photo as he has a pole sticking out of his head, but he's got such a cute smile!) he's giving one of the ladies some love . they are just that sweet....i kind of miss them. right now we're calving on the ranch (yes, i'll definitely have to post pics of that!) and the mom's aren't nearly this gentle. they would much rather you be a whole lot farther away! but the girls that we took to the show, mrs. t, paris, and purdy dirty, were so sweet and nice to be around. well, purdy had a bad day where she decided she liked to kick the boys....hehe. but paris was always such a love. she's the one that i miss the most. she liked to cuddle and snuggle and be scratched and eat cow treats.

and finally, here's me. it was my job to make them pretty and because i was working, i didn't have a whole lot of time to take pics. but hans grabbed my camera and snapped this one. i had just got done blowing her all off and she was ready to be spritzed and shined.

i have more pics from the show, but i'll be posting them later. :)