Feeding time 🌾 after the time change to wintertime sure looks a little different — gone are the pretty sunsets, replaced by pitch-black nights and the sound of sheep crunching hay in the dark. 🐑🌒

And let me tell ya, for a beginner farmer that first winter’s a real challenge, just a warning going out to all that have romantic feelings when seeing my posts popping up! Farming in daylight’s one thing, but farming in the dark? And soon in ice & snow? ❄️🥶 That’s a whole new level. But you can’t skip it, can’t pause it, and the animals need you, so you sure can’t run from it — you just face it head-on and keep moving. Winter’ll always test you, but after that first one, at least you know what’s waiting for you the next time around.

But no matter the season, ranch life’s never easy. It’s tough, raw, and full of worry and loss — but it’s also beautiful in ways words can barely touch. Out here, every heartbreak is matched by a new beginning, every hard day by a quiet victory. The bond between you and the animals is the purest form of love. It’s a life built on contrasts — its own kind of yin and yang.☯️

This job never stops — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days, there’s no ‘ill’, ‘sick’ or ‘I don’t feel good’, I remember cold winter days cleaning stalls with having around 40 C/104 F fever or filling up feeders one day after a surgery — and it still won’t pay you for all the time you pour into it. But the truth is, our kind doesn’t count hours, we aren’t doing it for the money anyways. The real reward runs way deeper for us — like the trust shining back at you from an animal’s eyes, the first green sprout pushing through the soil, those hay bales or wood tucked away dry before the storm hits or the moment new 4-legged life is born without complications. That’s the kind of reward money can’t buy. 🐴🌿

That’s what makes us ranchers & farmers a special kind of breed — stubborn, strong, and proud to live this life for real, literally grabbin’ life by the horns. 🤠💪 And I wouldn’t trade it for anything. 🔥

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