I think it was a Lays Potato Chip television commercial years ago that said something about not being able to "eat just one"! The oxen saga on the Law Family Homestead is following that line of thought. JW1 is expressing some interest in his brother's oxen team, and the two have actually teamed up to work in the woods together. CW drives the team and JW1 hooks the logs. They make a great little team. But JW1 is after a team of his own! So, this fall we followed up on a conversation I had with one of the Family Cow forum members online.

At one point she mentioned she had two steer calves out of her milk cows, born a day apart. I made the off-hand comment that if she ever wanted to sell them, we might be interested. Through the course of several conversations and events happening we purchased their steers. However, they live in the middle of Montana, we live in Idaho. So after some more maneuvering and phone calls and watching weather predictions, we worked out a plan for them to deliver the steers to my dad's place, roughly halfway between us, on a Thursday and then we drove up Friday, picked them up and brought them the rest of the way home.

This worked great, other than the fact we were deeply disappointed in not being able to meet these wonderful people in person!

So . . . (drum roll please) without further ado . . .

We are introducing . . .

Lucky and Salisbury, or Sal. Lucky on the left with the black nose, Sal on the right with the pink nose.

I couldn't go along due to milk deliveries I had to make, so I asked the guys to get lots of pictures for this post.

JW1 and CW holding the yoke that came with the steers. They were having a hard time cracking a smile as it was cold!

They're coming off the trailer at home just before dark.

Kit introduces them to Chestnut and Walnut, and the electric fence!

The sun came out the next morning for just a couple of minutes. Just enough time for me to grab a couple of pictures of them, before it started raining again. A perfect parting shot.