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Feb 19/2023. Spent a Sunday deep cleaning the house while Brian hauled the girls to a barrel race in Grants Pass, Oregon for the day. They all competed in barrel racing and pole bending – Maisie and Tater had the shining run of 14.098 seconds to WIN 1st place in youth and the open (adults too) with the fastest time of the day! There were 105 contestants so it was a long day of barrels – and then they all competed in poles. JJ had a beautiful pole run with Stretch and is really improving! They got home late but I had a steak and potatoes dinner waiting to feed the tired, happy crew… who were all excited for a clean house too! 😚

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Feb 18/2023. Happy 12th birthday JJ! You’ve always been our wild child. Named MaryJane… you quickly earned the nickname JJ for your spunky, quirky, fabulous personality. You have always had your own style, often with clothes a few sizes too small. 😂 You are a great story teller and performer but you prefer to only share those gems with those close to you. You used to hate the spotlight but have gotten used to performing and rocking rodeo events. You are funny, kind, smart and very confident in who you are are. I hope that never changes. You love you family, your friends, building Legos, shopping, rodeo and your horse Stretch. We love you. 1️⃣2️⃣

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Feb 12-18/2023. Maisie got to spend a week with Mariella – a good friend who has become a mentor for Maisie. Mariella is a senior and it’s her last year of high school rodeo. She sold her sweet mare “Tater” to Maisie this year and has helped coach her through learning and clicking with Tater to be smoking really fast runs and getting so much improvement! Mariella’s family are also our partners Passalacqua winery with Five Marys wine and have become really good family friends. Good enough to keep your kid AND her horse for a week AND taking her to a barrel race!! (4.5 hours south of their house, which Maisie ran the fastest time of the event at but hit a dang barrel!) Brian and I drove down to Healdsburg to pick her up last night (6 hours south of us) and stayed at the winery and had such a nice Saturday morning brunch with Jason, Jess & Mariella! Maisie had the best time and is so lucky for this friendship. Rodeo people are such good people… and even better when they make amazing wine and become great friends! Headed home with a happy, sleepy, grateful Maisie girl – I love that she got to spend this week on her own for memories she will always keep. ♥️ @mariella.passalacqua @passalacquawinery Thank you!!

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I’ve never seen Brian put more heart, thought, time, stress, and paperwork (oh the paperwork!!) into anything like he has the past two years to design, build and start operating our on-ranch USDA certified harvest facility. We’ve been officially operating for about three weeks and had our first harvest date for another ranching family last week. So much goes into this process every single time, for every animal – to complete the California Dept of Food & Agriculture’s brand inspection, the USDA and FSIS (Food Safety Inspection Service) in-person and extensive oversight on everything from checking sanitization, temperatures, pre-mortem inspection, harvest procedure, post-mortem inspection and organ inspection – as well as humane animal handling and just making sure it’s all done in the best manner possible for the livestock and for a quality end product. This has been no easy feat. But Brian doesn’t do anything he’s not proud of. And we were both so proud to be able to harvest, dry-age, butcher and package beef for the first of many other ranchers doing the same thing we do – where attention to detail and a great end product matters! @rockinghcattleco @high_noon_beef_co thanks for trusting us with your beef! @m5entrepreneurs

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Feb 14/2023. Brian turns 5️⃣1️⃣! The girls stayed up late the night before decorating the kitchen for his birthday table. Only the best for their Foss! (When he turned 45 they nicknamed him Fossil. It stuck.) We cooked a yummy dinner at home with steak, veggies and potatoes and good wine. Maisie is away with her rodeo friend/mentor Mariella – we missed her but she’s having a great time! also, remembering back to a year ago today, when I actually surprised him with all of his siblings and spouses and good friends at a surprise party at the burgerhouse. I still can’t believe I pulled that off without him knowing! I tried the same thing for his 40th birthday but he totally knew – so this one was a big deal. 🎉 We love you Foss! ❤️ (here’s his birthday ode from last year / had to share again ;) Happy birthday to the one who lights up our world – @heffbrian!! He’s a rugged, tough, sweet and kind Valentine’s baby and there’s no one else in the world like him. He can fix anything, he loves his girls fiercely, he tenderly cares for every animal on this ranch, he works so hard everyday, he puts family first and always has. He is smart at solving problems, efficient at coming to the best solution, he calmly mediates issues and does it all with a smile behind that mountain man beard. He’ll read books even when his eyes are barely open, he’ll play guessing games for hours on a car ride, he is calm and patient and loving with his daughters even when it’s stressful situation or emotions run high. He has the messiest desk and pick-up truck around – but somehow knows where all the important things are when we need them (ok maybe most of the time :) We love you Heff! ♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ #heffbrian #heffturnsfifty #m5birthdays

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APRICITY : (n) The warmth of the sun in winter (my new favorite word to describe a very beautiful and welcomed thing!) ☀️ Traded out the cold days and dark nights of winter ranch life for a few sweet days of sunshine and warmth and family. I’ve been slacking on my daily posting and story sharing and email sending and business working and all the things… but I’m soaking up every drop of this goodness.

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Jan 29-31/2023. A busy few days with some big things happening! Francie and I made a trip to Red Bluff for some fresh haircuts with our friend @morgandene! We tried to start Maisie’s Kids Cooking Show on Instagram live with her first guests Fran, Lois & Martha from @ballerinafarm but IG had a glitch and you couldn’t go LIVE together with a good connection so we each did our own and the girls made a delicious spaghetti meal! Kids COOKBOOK coming soon. We also had a big week with our first official on-ranch, USDA inspected and certified beef harvests. This took YEARS of planning and so much thought and paperwork and hurdles to jump over under and through. It’s really amazing to harvest our livestock right here in the ranch with no trailering or relying on outside facilities. Brian has done SO much to get us here and has had long days all week setting up our systems and managing the compliance and daily operations which include a USDA inspector from the United States Department of Agriculture here on the ranch for every harvest from start to finish. It’s been an intense week of work but we are proud to be where we are! Oh and we also got to celebrate Karl’s 16th birthday and Tess hasn’t missed a cold morning of duck season on the ponds yet! 😊

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Wanna cook with the M5 girls and the @ballerinafarm crew!? It’s the first KIDS COOKING SHOW live on Instagram this afternoon… come join us! More details in my stories… see you there!

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Jan 28/2023. Our big lamb working day – the girls rounded up some hard working friends and they rounded up all the momma sheep and lambs in the corrals. They sorted off the lambs and kept them in a smaller pen while the mommas went out to pasture to eat. One at a time they catch a lamb, identify if it’s a boy or girl and hold it until Brian is ready for it. He checks it’s out to make sure everyone is looking healthy and the youngest ones who hasn’t yet get docked tails, a tetanus shot and banded if it’s a boy. We usually ear tag every lamb on this big work day but they sent us the wrong ear tags (huge ones for calves!) so no ear tags for now. (It’s not as essential that we know which lambs go with which moms like it is for our calves) Finished a long day of sheep work with a Burgerhouse lunch, girls exercised their horses, I switched the washing machine out from the little house for the one that won’t work in hopes of starting two weeks worth of laundry (it’s working so far!) and paid a visit to Bruno at Hale Dairy for some fresh milk to make some butter for the girls’ cooking show debut Monday! Ended the night where we always do – cozy by the fire until Brian went to bed and the girls and I all cuddled up in Francie’s bed to watch a little Survivor. #m5yearinphotos #m5january2023 #ranchlife #navajochurrosheep #lambworkingday #m5sheep #m5lambs

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