Jumping in!

At our year end meeting, one of our family goals for 2019 was to develop our own website. Well, holy crap, here it is May 2019, and I am just now getting around to creating the site! Forgive me if you find any glitches. I’m new to web design and am just faking it at this point. The purpose of having a website was to have one central source for all the various hats we Bucks wear. The biggest hat of all of course is ranching which pretty much consumes most of Rex’s and my life. Which leads to why it’s taken so long to begin this project. We have been calving, or as I like to refer to it— we have been in “the calving fog”. That translates to little sleep, long days, muddy boots, afterbirth drug into the yard by the dog, making tags, and hoping a heifer doesn’t decide to go into labor between the hours of 10 p.m. and 5 a.m. We are on the downhill slide now since our first calf dropped March 20th, and are now planning branding season which is another story. For today I will focus on getting started here. Rex and I are in the 15th month of not having any additional full time help. We are running more cattle than ever which is exciting and exhausting to be honest. Rex hasn’t had a day off the place since Darcey’s Harvard graduation May 25, 2018. He puts in 16-18 hour days without stopping for food, never complains unless I let a cow go by or mess up loading bales, and is optimistic when it comes to the quality of our cattle and the work ethic of our kids. I on the other hand do pause for my avocado toast lunch and gummy bears, love my Ranger, have listened to a wide range of podcasts as I feed, and have managed not to get fired. Guess that’s enough for now. Thanks for stopping by! and WELCOME TO WRAY RANCH! This is gonna be fun!….and hit and miss… because hey, life is going on.