Getting some Wanch work done

I brought K8 and a few of the older boys home from Scout camp during lunch time last week, so K8 could castrate our last bull calf. We should have done it when it was younger and smaller, but I toyed with the idea of selling it with his momma, Nutella. With the price of beef increasing, we'll now keep this guy and sell him by the pound next year.

All three boys are Life Scouts, and all three live on farms that raise cattle. All they need is a sharp pocket knife, a bottle of iodine solution, and a can of fly spray. It took them longer to catch the calf than it did to castrate it.

K8, Taylor, and Daniel. Another day of fun in the sun.

David, in the middle, helped chase the calf from the pasture into the corral, and served as the cameraman.  After a quick bite of lunch, back to camp. You may be wondering where K6 and K7 were during this operation...

Not to worry, they also were accomplishing a bigger chore, working up on the hill, painting the last of our steel fence posts. This is our southwest corner boundary. Can you figure out what kind of tree is to the right?

From here, they travelled along our entire fence line painting any posts that were missed last year. All they needed was bug spray on their legs and shoes, rubber gloves, a brush and can of paint. They also carry machetes with them to cut out brush and poison ivy, and to kill snakes. They can now scratch off another chore from my long "To Do" list. I am happy each time the boys get these tasks done, because it means our farm continues to improve in functionality and looks. With school starting back up in a week, we'll get fewer tasks done.