2025 has started with unusually warm weather, which has created opportunities to get some work done that we wouldn’t have had if the ground had been frozen. During the first few weeks of January, after morning feeding, Dad and I have been doing some light clean-up in pens, with him on the excavator and me on the tractor.

Many months at the ranch are a blur, in a good way. Dad and I don’t really have a day of the week—the same cows need to be fed and taken care of whether it is Monday or Sunday. So, it is easy to get caught up in the rush of things and let time fly by without remembering what happened. That being said, while writing this blog post, I tried to reflect back on how special November was.

As a young guy, I’m definitely not going to act like I’ve got it all figured out. One thing I’m confident about, though, is that it’s important to stop and appreciate what you get to do, where you get to do it, and who you’re doing it with every now and then.