What do they do in the Winter? A look at Hunewill Staff and how they stay out of trouble in the Winter.

  We in the Hunewill Family are so fortunate to be able to work with such a great staff at the ranch in Bridgeport in the summer. So, I thought I might share a few of the things that those great members of the Hunewill Ranch staff are doing this winter.

 Wrangler, Benny Romero is working in his shop in Bridgeport on woodworking projects.  Here is a picture of  some saddle racks that he constructed to take to the Winnemucca Ranch Rodeo the first weekend of March.

A look inside Benny's shop.

Wrangler, Jay Joseph is helping watch Stan Hunewill this winter. Stan suffers from Alzheimer's and so we have five great caregivers who help make his life at home safe and pleasant. Wrangler, Raymond Gaffney and kitchen staff, Ashley Murray are also helping with Stan.

Ted Holloway, our wagon master in the summer just built this beautiful door to his underground root cellar in Smith Valley. No it isn't a gold mine despite the pick in his hand.

 

Ted training a big draft colt to pull a tire. Preparing it to become part of a team.

This week Dwayne and Dee Leonard are delivering  some of Dwayne's photographs from the Hunewill Ranch Cattle Drive in November to Chicago, Illinois. The photos complete with Dwayne's handmade wooden frames will hang in a restaurant owned by a Hunewill Guest in downtown Chicago.  Speaking of Dwayne I hear that he and wrangler, Sallie Joseph, are working on a calendar with her cowboy poetry and his ranch photography. We'll have to see if we can find out more about that great sounding project.

This week wrangler, Sierra Hunewill, is home in Smith Valley on spring break from Baylor University in Waco, Texas.  She, Ashley Murray, Sim Quintero, Dalton, Rhiannon, and Aspen Wright all helped load bulls last Sunday at the Snyder Livestock Bull Sale in Yerington, Nevada.  Hunewill Ranch also bought three red Angus bulls at this same sale.

Leslie looking at Bulls at the Snyder Bull sale last Sunday.  The ranch bought three Red Angus bulls- which is the predominant breed here on the ranch. Incidentally these are Wagyu bulls she is looking at in the photo. Wagyu literally translates as "Japanese Cow." We don't raise any but Leslie and I were tossing around the idea of breeding them to our first calf heifers. 

 

So this is a look at some of our great staff and what they are doing when they aren't working at the ranch. Of course this is only a few of the many so stay tuned and we'll try to catch up with others.This week's blog was brought to you by Megan Hunewill.

Ashley Murray and Sierra Hunewill at the Snyder Bull Sale. Ashley is a junior at University Nevada Reno and Sierra is a freshman at Baylor University in Waco, TX.