Double Heart Ranch

A beautiful spring

leegaddis — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:47:29 +0000

This has been an amazing year for spring flowers. We were blessed with lots of late winder and early spring rain and I’ve never seen more color at the ranch and all over the Texas Hill Country.

We’re about to the end of the season, it’s getting hot and beginning to dry up as Texas does in the summer, so we’ll begin mowing soon to reduce fire danger. As we do, we’ll be seeding flowers for next spring so let’s keep our fingers crossed for another great year.

Busy in the garden

leegaddis — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:04:04 +0000

After a busy couple of days hosting visitors Gay and Jane Crisan spent most of Sunday working the Double Heart Ranch garden. Potatoes, carrots, peppers, tomatoes and a huge fresh garlic that they baked for dinner. Gardening was only briefly interrupted to help haul hay.

Plums are wonderful.

Llano Parade

leegaddis — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 23:20:53 +0000

We where proud to step off this morning in the Llano, Texas Rodeo Parade. Joining us was a team of executives from Microsoft and our Managing Directors from New York and San Francisco.

Beautiful morning and a great parade. A special thanks for official greetings from County Judge Wayne Brascom and Jannelle Grey. They made our guests feel most welcome.

May and Belle performed perfectly and we won 3rd Place in the parade.

Roping at John Simmon’s

leegaddis — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 22:52:06 +0000

We had clients and members of our management team in from all over the country this weekend and our neighbor, John Simmons, was kind enough to invite everyone over for a friendly roping event last night.

The company was good and the light perfect. Above it a wonderful shot of one of the Quarter Horses getting in position to run a calf.

John provided roping lessons for Lisa and Ian. Lisa did way better.

MoCo!

leegaddis — Sat, 29 May 2010 16:17:54 +0000

Our old hay cutter finally played out so we purchased a new John Deere MoCo. This thing sounds like a 747 when it gets going. State of the art cutting and conditioning and at amazing speeds. Rides like a high dollar German sports car.

Turn on the radio, turn up the volume, crank down the a/c and cut some hay!

Second Place Isn’t Too Bad

leegaddis — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 20:14:42 +0000

Watch Gay before we step out at the Burnet Bluebonnet parade. She’s proud of her ribbon.

Legacy Sale

leegaddis — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:28:53 +0000

Hardy Vaughn and Gay Gaddis at the Longhorn Marketing Alliance Legacy Sale in Fort Worth. We had a great time talking cattle with the best people in the business. And we enjoyed sharing our family ranching photo collection with everyone.

Miss Quixote’s Legacy

leegaddis — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 14:24:38 +0000

We are pleased to introduce Miss Quixote’s Legacy. The Double Heart Ranch provided retirement for her famous great grandmother, Miss Quixote Especial, one of the legends of the breed, and mother to BL Night Chex. This outstanding heifer is out of one of our herd sires, Scorpio, owned in partnership with Mike Bowman’s End of Trail Ranch. This little heifer has a pedigree like a southern debutante, from Boomerang to Heavy Hitter.

Born March 27, 2010

Snow!

leegaddis — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 21:26:32 +0000

Rare occurrence for us in Central Texas – snow that sticks. Cold February day. Hardy took this picture from the ranch house.

On Our Way to Fort Worth

leegaddis — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:52:29 +0000

We’ll be attending the Legacy Sale this weekend in Fort Worth.