Bottle Calves...5 Years Old

Do you remember these two little guys?

Marv.....1 day old

Vern.....2 months old

In 2017 we raised Vern and Marv on bottles

Bottle Babies.....Marv and Vern

Vern is a beef calf rejected by his mother

Marv is a bull calf from the dairy

2017.......Vern and Marv.....8 months old

Just weaned from the bottle

( I think weaning was harder on me 

than it was them!)

2018.....Marv and Vern 18 months old

Here are the bottles calves today: 5 years old

Just for scale to show how big he really is...

Marv is in the center with 2 full grown cows

on each side of him...

Those cows weigh 1500 pounds...

he dwarfs them and they are very large cows !

Marv and Vern today...

They are so sweet and still know 

the sound of my voice

when I call them to come over for a visit. 

Enjoy the Video:

Videos of Marv & Vern as baby calves:

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Video of Marv sucking my fingers:

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LuAnn Kessi

Bottle Calves....4 years old

 

Do you remember these two little guys?

Marv.....1 day old

Vern.....2 months old

In 2017 we raised Vern and Marv on bottles

Bottle Babies.....Marv and Vern

Vern is a beef calf rejected by his mother

Marv is a bull calf from the dairy

2017.......Vern and Marv.....8 months old

Just weaned from the bottle

( I think weaning was harder on me 

than it was them!)

2018.....Marv and Vern 18 months old

2019......2 years old:

Vernie loves the new baby calves,

helping the mamas lick them clean.

Big Marv also loves the new baby calves

born every Spring.

2021.......4 years old

Big Marv and Vernie turn 4 years this Spring.

They weigh in at 1500 pounds.

Big Marv is so tall, he towers above our mama cows.

They are sweet and gentle and absolutely adore one another

and are never apart.

I visit with them daily when we check on

the cows and calves.

Just this morning Vernie had his entire head inside the pick up visiting with me.  He licked everything he could reach in the cab!

They are a lot of FUN!

Enjoy the Video of the Bottle Calves:

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LuAnn Kessi

Hand Piecing, Pears and Wild Fires...

 

The English Paper Piecing continues

on this Horse Quilt Panel...

Three of the four border sections are 

hand pieced together...

This is the fourth and final border 

I am piecing now...

I have been toting the borders around

in this Messy Painted Canvas tote bag...

When a hand piecing moment arises,

I pull a border section out of the tote bag and stitch for awhile.

Our pear tree in the yard

has been fruitful...

Pears....almost too pretty to eat !

Pear Freezer Jam

We pick a few pears each day,

some are shared with our little goat herd,

the rest will become canned pears.

This is the view just outside the front door:

A few of the cow and calf pairs have come up

to the yard fence...

The Oregon Wild Fire smoke blew into our

little valley a week ago...

you can see it hanging back in the timber.

Directly under the tree, is one of our 

3 year old bottle calves...

he is so tall, he towers above the yard fence.

Wild Fire smoke hangs in the timber at the edge 

of one of the hay fields...

We are safe from the fires here at home,

but nearly one million acres has burned

in Oregon so far this season.

The Dinner Plate Dahlias

are putting on a show in the back yard:

They are at their peak at the very end 

of the summer...

It is their way of saying Good Bye...

We are busy preparing for 

the winter months ahead.

The rain will be back soon and we must be ready.

More To Come !

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LuAnn Kessi

Feeding Cattle...

It's that time of the year...

Cow feeding time

Cow and calf pairs gather at the bale feeder

to get a bite of hay

This was our first year freeze branding:

Spring calves with their new freeze brands...

The freezing kills the pigment in the hair...

then the hair grows back white

Bottle Calf Update:

The babies are 2 1/2 years of age

This is Number 25....Vernie

This is the dairy calf.....Big Marv

They run with the main cow herd year round.

They still respond to my voice 

when I call them by name.

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when they were babies

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LuAnn Kessi

Calving...Spring 2019

Spring has arrived here in Western Oregon

The pastures are full of cow and calf pairs

The camellia bush is in full bloom

A new calf is born...

Mama cow cleans her new baby...

Vern...2 year old steer 

(bottle calf from 2 years ago)

also comes by to help clean the new calf.

An eagle perches along the river looking for fish

A calf snuggles up against mama

The calves gang up to play!

The grass is greening up,

the cattle are grazing more and eating less hay,

summer is on the way.

I continue to stitch Dresden Plate blocks...

I will share images.....soon!

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May Your Bobbin Always Be Full,

LuAnn Kessi