Back for my 200th post

I have been working some long hours this week, so haven't had time to keep up with all my blogger friends. We had a long day at the cattle auction, the highlight of which was a group of these extra big, extra wild Charolais steers and bulls. One of them stood in his pen in the alley before he was sold, following every move of the young fellow who was loading cattle into the sales ring, swinging his head from side to side, and charging at him time and again. Creepy! In this picture a pair of them are coming out of the sales ring; one of our brave girls is at the door ready to close it and me, I'm up on the fence -I didn't know if they were going to try to leap the fence or not- then I had to scramble down and close the gate that you can see in the foreground. We made sure the alleys were clear, then sent them down to their pens ; they went full tilt, with the pen rider hard on their tails and got them penned without incident. The one that was hunting the young fellow got sent straight from the sales ring (where he tried to climb in with the auctioneer) to a pen; we didn't try to contain him, just sent him straight down to a good strong bull pen. At the end of the day, the last 4 or 5 were some of these, so we ended the day on an adrenalin rush too! I love my job.... really I do. I'd rather do this job than my other job, cooking in a restaurant.
All the horses except Chickory got their feet trimmed yesterday. I won't have time to work with her today, but tomorrow she will get some attention. I really need to get her halter broke before the snow hits so that I can turn her and Peppy out with the other two into the winter feeding paddock and put Beamer in the pen they are in, as it is his winter pen.