Monthly Archives: March 2009

Started with rain Sunday evening. By Monday morning the rain was still going and switching to sleet and he even had some hail! Almost dime sized, it looked like. I got everything fed good behind protection on Monday morning. Now as I write this on Tuesday, we set and watch the drifts pile up andContinue reading “Blizzard!”

One of the reasons we are in this mess….. Yeah that sure was a great administration, wasn’t it? http://mjperry.blogspot.com/2009/03/trillion-dollar-bank-shakedown-that.html#links

I know some of you will not go to links to check stuff out, so I will print this here for you to read. Not saying I agree 100% but I do feel much like this on my bluer days. And there have been many lately. This comes from here Just So You Know, JugearsContinue reading “Tell us what you really think…”

Went and did taxes today. Don’t ask!!!!!!!!! Spring blizzard coming in tomorrow evening and the next day or so. Looks like it’s going to be a humdinger. Off to Gus’s birthday party tonight.

I went out after I wrote the last post and fed Buck and Crackerjack and caught Pal, the little two coming two year old colt who is a grandson of Mr San Peppy and worked with him. Almost too gentle. Borders on lazy, but I imagine with some green grass in his belly, a lotContinue reading “Whew!”

Heidi (hope I spelled that right) over at the Milk Man’s Wife blog http://themilkmanswife.blogspot.com/ has inspired me with her latest post about farms and milk cows. Go read it. I decided that I need to do something similar and post more about what I do and why I do it here on our ranch. PleaseContinue reading “How we do it”

I took a big roll of smooth barbless wire and my plammers and walked up into the lane this morning and patched on all the broken wires behind the tree patch, where all the snow had drifted this winter. It was still stiff enough out that it wasn’t muddy yet. Most of the drift isContinue reading “Seems like spring”

Tho’ the water has about quit running thru’ the yard. I am going out in a bit and see if it is stiff enough to go give the cows a bale. UPDATE: Just came in and it worked out fine. Still was stiff enough and there isn’t much water running except in the creek. GotContinue reading “Still muddy”

New saddle pictures at bottom of the Saddle page on here.

Chance brought Gus up the other day and he was getting into lots of stuff, so Grampa fixed him! But then I got worried he’d fall and couldn’t catch himself. So I fixed that too. Ahh, that’s better! 🙂 Then I was told to post cat pictures. She moved them into a drawer where IContinue reading “Pictures”