So much for escaping the Australian winter and enjoying a Canadian summer! The weather has been crazy this past week – we had about 6 inches of rain over three days earlier in the week; since then it’s been cold & windy; and we’ve even had light hail and snow flurries that dusted all the ridges with snow (& interfered with my lovely view of the Rockies!). This is a pic of it snowing outside our our worker's lodge. This afternoon we had more heavy rain (about another 4” was forecast) and a top temp of about 6C!!!
Despite the weather, I’m really having a fantastic time here at Remington and have been busy helping with a range of jobs – riding out to check calves daily; moving cows to new pastures; putting bulls out with cows ; tagging calves; sorting bulls; semen testing etc. I love it that we do so much of the work on horses – this last week it’s definitely proved much better being up high in the wet weather than on a motorbike! I have about another week here at Remington and hopefully (weather permitting!) this next week will be spent clipping cattle ready for their dispersal sale in October of their entire registered herd. A team of professional clippers has come to start clipping and I am so thrilled to be able to help out! We’ll be aiming to do about 100 head a day. The reason we’re starting on the cattle so early is that the sale will be conducted entirely by video, and they will need to take photos and videos of the cattle prior to the sale for the catalogues and video footage etc - a big job. I’m very excited to have a chance to help out with the clipping – should be a great week!
