A&B Ranch

𝐒𝐎𝐋𝐃! $𝟐𝟓,𝟎𝟎𝟎 — We've never sold a dog higher here in Levelland. Congrats to Shauna and Kyle Dillard and "Dax."

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Nick Greaves Solo 8 Hour World Lamb Shearing Record Attempt. 03/08/2024 3rd August 2024 Nick set the new 8 Hour Solo World Lamb Record of 764 on his family farm in Amerton Staffordshire.

In the high desert ranges of southern Idaho, 1934 meant Basque herders alone for months with sheep, no company but stars and dogs.
One lonely summer, a herder named Domingo Alzola carved a small aspen-wood sheep on a ridge to mark his camp.
Next season another herder found it, added a shepherd figure. Soon arborglyphs multiplied—names, dates, poems in Basque, figures of home—left for the next lonely man to find and add to.
They called themselves the Basque Sheepherder Carvers (though they never met).
Year after year, while wages stayed low and letters from Euskadi took months, trees spoke. Herders read old carvings, felt less alone, carved new dreams—wives waiting, dances remembered, hopes for America. Through snow, wolves, and silence that rang in ears, the aspens held—company without voice.
By 1939, thousands of carvings dotted the ranges, now protected. The carvers left legacy. Those knives cut forever. Elders said the trees felt warmer than any campfire because carvings were left by lonely hands, read by the next lonely heart, and proved that when the range gave only solitude, men could still speak to each other if they just picked up a knife and told the aspen who they were.