Monthly Archives: March 2014

Supposed to get up to 60 by this afternoon, then cooler and snow and wind coming tomorrow afternoon, night… wheee, spring on the Northern Plains… Tate and the girls came out this morning and he helped me run the cows in and we sprayed them with wormer and lice control… ran out of the wormerContinue reading “Warm…”

Same old…. warmer weather then it cools off, get a little snow and then it melts off… most of the neighbors are calving, we are the only ones not… and that is a bit odd… the boys bought some cows that were supposed to start in March, so it was claimed and doesn’t necessarily meanContinue reading “Same old….”

Friday evening Cindy and I ran into Sturgis for a birthday [party for Gus who turned 7 on Saturday.. Saturday morning we ran back into Sturgis to watch Gabe wrestle at Districts. two very hard matches which he lost on both, but he sure worked hard at it, the second one he lost in overtime…Continue reading “Running…”

Windy, but warmer..up in the 50’s anyway… just came in from feeding cows.. been switching them over to evening feeding for calving.. lots of mud, mud, mud! Sure gives the team a good work out, slopping thru’ it.. worked on some leather today also..a pair of angora chaps, they are a lot of fussing…

I added a new page to the top of this blog, go check it out, newest saddles and leather work… old page was getting big and took a long time to load, so this is where I will be adding any new saddles or leather items I build… got several on order, need to getContinue reading “A new page”

The rural schools had their Oration contest today and the music teacher asked me to come over after and do some poetry and music and work with the young kids learning guitar.. it was fun for me at least, hope they learned something…  Paul was down yesterday afternoon and got more done on his saddle.Continue reading “Music”

To ashes, dust to dust… today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent leading to Easter Sunday… some non Catholics have asked me what this is all about.. well for me, it’s a time of renewal… a time to remember that “from ashes and dust you came, to ashes and dust you will return”…Continue reading “Ashes”

Cold spell has seemed to pass, not real warm yet, but headed that way if you can believe the weather report.. I don’t put a lot of faith in them… been feeding with the team , looking for a different tractor and spending lots of time on the phone in search of said tractor orContinue reading “Things are looking up”

March came in like a lion… or a crabby polar bear!  Cold, below zero, snow, about 4 inches and more coming now, big ol’ flakes, and a little breeze this morning, but nothing like the wind yesterday… we got everything fed good and just come in the house. even got the old 756 to startContinue reading “Growwwwwllllll”