Pigs flew

[kato]

... and the hot place froze over, so we decided it was time to take a holiday for the first time since 2003.

You don't really know just how stressed and overworked you are until you take a break. We took a good one. All the way to Scotland to find the family roots. And we found them too.

Here's some of what we saw,

This one's for Randy.

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I'll see how it posts, and then post some more.

[kato]

Not bad, but I think I resized it a little small.

[kato]

This will probably be too big. It's an air seeder, and I actually had to ask someone to make sure that's what it was. We were at the Royal Highland Show, in Edinburgh

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[kato]

That worked.. OK here's some more.

Some sheeps... more that you can count.
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[kato]

And this is where the family started farming .... 600 years ago.

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[per]

Nice Kato.

[grassfarmer]

Interesting Kato - so where is the last picture? looks awfully like some of the west coast just south of Oban.

[kato]

Good eye! You got it exactly right.

It's a beautiful place, no doubt about that. It's like walking back in time to see all the old stone fences and buildings still there. It was an amazing experience to see it.

[rkaiser]

Geez GF how big is that country of yers.

Awesome photos kato and thanks for the highland pic.

[grassfarmer]

I'm quite familiar with that part of the country kato - it's where my cattle breed was developed. Poor soil, rough terrain, 90 inch rainfall - where better to develop a breed of tough forage efficient cattle?
It looks like you spent your time among the rare breeds at the Highland - the post legged BB monstrosity, the wooly headed lambs of a breed I'm not sure I could identify accurately, the hairy Highlander.
I hope you saw the supreme sheep champion - the Blackface ram - shown by good friends of mine who are stockman of world class calibre. I hope too you had time for a few cool ones at the "Herdsmans". Wow,that ages me - it's 20 years since I was misspending my youth there - now it's my friends kids carrying on the tradition!