This is a show My old friend Ernie Rodina is doing.  They have a whole network of different shows but this is Ernies.  Tammy visited a great guy to be around, and if you know the world of AQHA competition, Al Dunning knows how to win.

Its a fun show, with lots of helpful info.

If you read the scoop loop last week you will remember that wife Tammy was gone for a little over a week. You might also recall me telling about when a few years back, being gone and coming home to some bulls that were locked off water. I said I new immediately something was wrong.

Well she flew in to Billings at 10 p.m. a few nights ago and we got home about 11:30 after waiting for luggage and the drive home. I was bringing things into the cabin and making sure old dog Huckleberry was alright I went into the kitchen and Tammy was watering her plants. They looked pretty thirsty, and they were cactus.

I couldn’t believe it, and felt terrible. I never gave them a thought, and never even noticed them the whole time I was home alone. As soon as Tammy came in she could see something was wrong. No gate had blown shut, I had just not even seen the needs of the plants.

How much am I missing in this world, if I don’t even notice something in my own house that I spend lots of time with? We don’t have TV, so that’s not taking all my time. I read a lot, but I also spend a little bit of time just looking at the cabin and how it’s built and all the stuff we have in it like some nice bits, some rawhide, and the is a real nice Will James painting I study sometimes. But the only living thing in the house that really needs my care I missed.

So a valuable reminder that I need to become more aware of everything around me, especially the things that require my care and observation.

I don’t know if cactus have feelings, but I do, and I am not satisfied with my Stewardship abilities in the cabin. I didn’t do what was important. I didn’t “see it”.

It’s interesting how water or the lack of was the important thing in both scenarios.

The bulls recovered fine before, and I guess the plants are too. I’m not sure what they looked like before, but I’m figuring out what they should look like from here on.

We did that YouTube video several years ago.  If you know Ryan now,  you would not recognize him because he lost a bunch of weight.  Ron Gill and I are still doing Stockmanship and Stewardship for NCBA and this year the Chase DeCoite and crew at NCBA are stepping it up and offering a regional S and S program that will be a two day format.  Check out the website

“www.stockmanshipandstewardship.org”