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2017! Our Year in Review

Happy Holidays from our outfit to yours.

2O17! Our Year in Review!

2017 at the Circle L Ranch

Cody & I Celebrated 19 Years of Marriage

Cade 15 Years old

Kason 13 Years old

Ryder & Reata 7 Years old

Cody and I celebrated our 19th wedding anniversary in the air. I got to be the pilot. It was amazing.

Our Family Favorites:

Restaurant: Ole’s and Taco Johns

Food: Beef and Cheese (And Herseys Chocolate Bars)

Activity: Riding Horses

Color(s): Red, Lime Green, Yellow, Pink

We welcomed these new members to our Ranch:

Goats (The kids wanted to expand some more on their Goat Business)

Kason Kept a Puppy we raised (Blue)

“Blue” Kason’s project, I mean working buddy.

Colts (Cody wanted a couple projects)

Kittens (To keep the mouse population down)

A few Heifers and a couple Bulls!

We added this Longhorn to the herd this year. He is quite the character. We are excited to see his babies.

Cade’s Highlights:

He’s in 9^thGrade.

He’s taller than Mom and almost his Dad

Plays Football & Basketball & Track.

He is active in FFA and 4-H.

He is active in FCA.

Has Excellent Grades.

Reserve Champion Breeding Heifer of the 2017 Morrill County Fair.

2017 Morrill County Fair Rate of Gain Champion-Steer

Bought a couple show heifers. (I can not wait for this adventure)

He is on his 2nd year of training his colts.

He broke his nose in football and had to have his tonsils and adenoids out.

His future plans include going to college in Ag, a few classes on mechanics and coming back to the ranch.

#12 Cade Loomis 2017 -2018 Bridgeport Bulldogs Picture Credit to Kevin Myers

Super Proud of these two young men. Pictured with Cole Faessler

#88 Cade in Bridgeport Football High School He had a great season.

Cade and his heifer at the 2017 Morrill County Fair. This heifer was Reserve Champion Breeding. She is expecting a baby in March.

John Covalt and Cade. Cade bought a steer and a heifer from John. He is our 86(I think) neighbor. This steer was 4-H Champion Rate of Gain. He also received a purple ribbon. Cade had a great year with his red cattle.

Kason’s Highlights:

He’s in 7^th Grade. (Hard to believe that he is in middle school.)

Plays Basketball and Football. But his favorite is football.

His future plans include playing Nebraska Husker Football and coming back to the ranch.

He is on his 2nd year starting his own colt.

He is training his own dog, Blue. He is doing a very good job.

Has Excellent Grades.

He also bought a show calf heifer. (I am excited to see what this business adventure will take the boys)

He broke is foot last year in football but we didn’t know it until this year when he started 7th grade football. He was on crutches and in a boot for 8 weeks. He is tough for sure.

Kason and his basketball team. These kids are a great group.

Kason showing his steer at the Morrill County Fair. He kept this steer out of his own herd. He got a purple on him.

Kason at the fair. I would say he has a pretty good thing going with his beef herd. Wouldn’t you?

Reata’s Highlights:

She is in 1st Grade and love everyday.

Loves anything Horse.

Loves to Draw and Color.

She is getting tall.

Her future plans include being a rancher and a teacher.

Reata’s favorite place is on the back of a horse!

Helping Cody wrestle calves at branding.

Ryder and Reata showing Goats at the fair.

Ryder and Reata showing bucket calves at the fair. These two happen to be baby jerseys.

Ryder’s Highlights:

He is in 1st Grade and really likes it.

Loves anything that has to do with the Marines and guns and knives.

His future plans include joining the Coast Guard and then becoming a Marine. O, and he wants me to add that he will be flying helicopters!

O Ryder!! He keeps us on our toes for sure. Photo Credit: Kevin Myers

Fun Family Facts:

We hosted a whole school, K-12, for the Eclipse. We had over 200 kids and adults on the Circle L.

Just one of the photos of the Eclipse on the Circle L Ranch. It was AMAZING.

A photo of what the Circle L Ranch looked like heading into the the total Eclipse.

We attending a cold, fun Wyoming Cowboy Football game with some great friends. We had a great time.

I attended Young Cattlemen’s Conference. It was a 9 day trip that started in Denver and ended in Washington, DC. It was quite the eye opening experience. We tour McDonalds headquarters, Chicago, and the our capital. You can read more about that here.

This was highlight of the Year for sure. I am beyond humble for the experience of being in the Western Horseman. Thank you for all the support and thank you Jennifer Dension for the opportunity

I was featured in the June Western Horseman magazine!

Have you ever been to the White House? If you answer is no, you should get it on your list. This trip was amazing and I am thankful that I was one of the Nebraska Young Cattlemen to attend.

Young Nebraska Cattlemen Hank, Adrian Smith-U.S. Representative, Jacob

Young National Cattlemens Hank, Deb Fischer-United States Senator, Jacob

Jeff Fortenberry- U.S. Representative Nebraska

The twins doing twin stuff. Like doing tricks off the back of Bozo.

We are really just a ranch family that has a lot of love. Just look at this picture. It pretty well sums up what we are. Crazy.Funny.Together.

You didn’t think I could post this post without a few Circle L Ladies in it, did you? These ladies are what make our ranch work.

Cody keeps busy with chores, riding colts and day working.

Cody was Top Hand at a local ranch rodeo.

Raised 20 puppies this year.

Raised over 12 baby goats this year. They are super fun.

Favorite Family Bible Verse:

And Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for with God all things are possible. (Matt 10:27 NJV)

Favorite Family Game:

Horse Racing- Marbles and UNO

The Circle L blog page went under construction this year. I moved it from blogger to wordpress. I am liking it better and I hope that you are too. My goal for the blog is to be friendly, provide you with stories, recipes, tips and love. Make sure that you sign our guest book.

With that, here is the top 5 blog post of 2017.

Circle L Ranch Blog Top 5 2017 Posts:

We had a pretty good year, we know 2017 would not have been nearly as fun without all of our wonderful friends and family. So thanks for cheering us on, praying for us, lending a hand, and providing us with love and laughter all year long. Sending you lots of joy, peace and love this season and for the next year, 2018! We would love to hear from you!! You are always welcome.
~Cody, Naomi, Cade, Kason, Ryder, Reata

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A View from the Skies!

Dream BiG, Never Give UP,
Obstacles are just Clouds on our minds Sky!
Getting ready for take off.
(Photo Credit: My Cowboy)

Today I thought I would share with you a little bit of the Nebraska Sand hills that we call home!
A month or so ago, My Cowboy and I had the opportunity to fly the hills with a neighbor.
I have to say that I can not wait to go again.
The adventure was amazing.
The pictures below show that God is still in control.
This year we have been receiving amazing amount of rain. The view of all the water was breath taking.
The little red plane gave us quite the tour!
I had to apologize to a few neighbors for not getting a picture of your place. I was trying to take pictures, and look and it doesn’t always work out together! I promise the next time I go up, I will take a picture.
Thank you, Dan for the ride.

Box Lake- This is one of our lakes. Who would like to go Boating.

Another photo of Box Lake. This lake has an old car on the beach,
it is currently under water.

Windmill. Look at all the rolling Sand hills.

Circle L Cattle.

Circle L Cattle

You can not see it, but where the trees stand is an old home stead.

A Neighbor- Steve and Darlene Martin-Rush Creek Ranch

A Neighbor- Todd and Shelli Micheal-Covalt Ranch

Roach Lake

This is a currently our road going in to the ranch house.

Another view of our road. The county was nice enough to put in
a ramp so that we can go around.

Our place that we call Home. Circle L Ranch.
Ranch Life spotlights the character of people:
Some turn up their sleeves,
Some turn up their noses,
and some don’t turn up at all.

I believe the windmill is working!!

The paddle boats.

Remember my lake post? Well here are a few of the lake from
the skies.

Yep, looks like someone lives there.
We are more than grateful that God is allowing us to be ranchers,
land stewards, parents, business managers, teachers, friends, and animal caretakers.

Some call it the middle of nowhere. I call it the center of our world.

Sand Lake

Circle L hay field.

What this World still needs is big open spaces with hay bales and cattle.

Murphy homestead.

A Neighbor-Aaron Vivion- Leo Sheep Company

Our Aunt Diana’s place. This place is part of the Loomis Heritage.

A Neighbor-Charles and Carmen Mulloy- Mulloy Ranch

My Cowboy and Dan. Thank you, Dan for taking us for a ride.

“When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it.”
~Henry Ford

We all have wings,
so let them fly.

We would like to say “Thank You” to Dan for letting us fly the skies with you!

Happy Wednesday, Friends!

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Circle L #2 Branding

We may not have it all, but we have each other.

I thought I would share with you all, a couple shots from our #2 branding. This year has been so different. It seems like everything that we do on “normal” years, we can not do this year.

This year has been so wet that we could not get into the house with a vehicle, we used a four-wheeler or a side-by-side for months to get in and out of our place.

Branding pens are under water, so we had to brand in 2 different bunches.

The green of our ranch is amazing and we are very thankful for the wet.

We are also thankful for All the help that came to the #2 Branding. We are truly blessed and there isn’t a day that goes by that we don’t thank God for what he has given to us.

Enjoy!!

Kason & Cassie

Megan V. and Hawk

Reata & Cary bringing the Circle L Cattle in!

Our little Cowgirl!

Freckles and red hair….We love our Kason!!

Ryder & Mama…. Mama we love you!

O Boy!! Is all I have to say.

Cassie

Yep, he is growing up into a fine, young Cowboy!

Kason & Cassie… That is all I have to say!

Megan V.

Ryder & Tripp… Do you see what they have?

I don’t know but I really like this photo and wanted to share it with you.

Wild Flowers are so pretty.

BEEF… Builds Beautiful Bodies!!

Seth

Aaron

Cole… Love this kid.

Coote M….

Lori and Preston…This is his first branding.

Cody I.

Little Miss Taggert.. Isn’t she a cutie?

Todd M.

Cade… Where has the time gone? He is growing up way to fast.

Cole.. Cade and Cole started preschool together, and now they
are starting Middle School together. Where in the world does time
go?

Cary

Johnny.. Thankful for this neighbor. I often call for advice.

I really like this photo. It reminds me
that we all have a past, a present and a future.

Tom and Coote

Terryn.. Friends like her, make me want to be a better.

Cade… Is it sad that he can out rope his mom?

Wayne.. Lori I think we should keep him!!

Lacce and Porter. This was his first Branding

Ty & Chrome

I really like this photo also. It reminds me that it takes TEAM
Work to make things work. Thank you Cody, and Tom for all
you do for us.

Aaron V.

Tom T.

Dean and Wayne… We will keep them both!!

Seth

After branding a few of us went to the Circle L Lake!!

Cole in the paddle boat.

Ryder

Wayne & Lori

and then we shot some clay pigeons. All in All it was a good day at the Circle L!!

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In Response to “Water we going to do?”

Post author By Naomi Loomis
Post date June 4, 2015
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In Response to “Water we going to do?”

This picture is as close I can do to show you how large the lake really is.

My friend over at Faith Family and Beef asked “Water we going to do?” This is my response to her.

I say “When God gives you a lot of rain, buy a paddle boat and go swimming!”

Circle L Ranch has received around 20 inches of rain in the month of May. We have lakes where there has never been water. This is just one of our new lakes. I would like to show you around. We now have lake front property!

Yep, you are not seeing things. We bought a paddle
boat for our Sandhill lake. We are calling our new
lake Circle L!

Reata and Cassie enjoying some sun!

Starting our little adventure.

To give you an idea of how big this lake is, I decided to a series
of pictures. This is Picture 1

Photo 2

Photo 3

This is a gate post floating in the water.

Photo 4

Photo 5

Cord and Kason

Lindsie and Kason

Fence Line in the Lake

Charlie became a water dog!

Cassie and Cade in the Kayak.

Kason, Ryder & Cole

Can you believe it? It started raining. I really like rain drops in
water.

This is how the Loomis boys get to the Circle L Lake.

Ty & Cary!

We all had so much fun. It is hard to believe that we are boating in our back pasture!

Kaigan loved swimming.

Ryder

Reata

Petey even enjoyed himself.

Red

Logen

The view is amazing. Sandhills and Longhorns

Soap weed under water

Circle L Longhorns

This tie is competly under water

We would like to invite you all our Circle L Lake. Isn’t it beautiful?

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Covalt Neighborhood Gathering

Post author By Naomi Loomis
Post date May 29, 2015
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Covalt Neighborhood Gathering

Communicating……………(Photo Credit to Cary)

I know that I have said it before and I am going to say it again, “I love Brandings!”

I thought I would share a few shots with you.

Brandings

Brandings are a Tradition.

Where you meet your neighbors.

Where you can find a smiles, handshakes and advice.

Brandings are Important.

The cattle depend on us.

We are insuring the health of the calves.

Brandings are Special.

I am thankful for them all.

Brandings are a Tradition.

~Naomi 2015~

Johnny Covalt and Jim Gilroy.

Joe Pigotti

Dave

Wrestling at the finest.

Cade

Aaron Vivion

Ned Loxterkamp

Tonya

Erin

One of my Cowboys!

Tripp

Ol Grey & My Cowboy

Kason

Can almost reach her stirrups.

Kason. I love his freckles!

Tripp~ Isn’t he a cutie?

“We are going lizard hunting!”

Cary

Mark

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Johnny~I am thankful for his advice, his example,
and friendship.

Lizard hunting was a Success!

Ol Grey.. Just kinda like this horse.

Cade & Nichols pulling calves to the pot!!

Father/Son Cowboys

Post & Wire… It is how the West was Won!

Johnny & Todd~ Two great people, that I am glad to have
them around!

Happy Friday dear Friends!!

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Mulloy Neighborhood Gathering

Post author By Naomi Loomis
Post date May 20, 2015
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Mulloy Neighborhood Gathering

Charles Mulloy

I thought I would share some photos from the Mulloy family branding.
I have a couple things to say about this branding.
1. I appreciate this family so much. Thanks for letting our family help you.
2. I have to give credit to Steve Peterson for taking a lot of these photos. Thanks Steve!