Monthly Archives: November 2014

Cold ol’ wind a blowin’ out there… boys got some more cattle bought yesterday, so they went today to brand them and get them hauled home.. I drove over to the Amish and gt my team back.. he had only gotten them drove 10 times, in over a month, but they sure are better thanContinue reading “Brrrrr, again….”

Tate was out of water this morning and we decided it was the well, he ended up gong and getting a new electrical part for it and got it going then e headed to the Hills to look at cattle chutes and go to a cow sale.. usually they sell the bred heifers first andContinue reading “Another sale”

Got pretty warm, melted some snow, cows are out grazing, just a real nice day.. putted around and did some odds and ends this morning.. Tate helped me this afternoon and we took a power steering pup of an old motor to use on the new bale wagon.. I need to find a splitter… orContinue reading “Nice day!”

Cows…. Tate and I each got a few.. sale was real good. There were a couple of dispersions and the cows went for over 3000 a head… younger cows, but I’d hate to pay it…. There was a nice sized group at the funeral. It was of Cindy’s step father, I guess you’d say, thoContinue reading “More”

The cows. We sat and watched a sale over the internet on Saturday and Tate, Chance and I all got some cows bought, so today we drove up to the sale barn, used their chute and branded them… one of Chances jumped a tall fence and got out so we told them to run herContinue reading “Got ’em….”

But just a breeze so it didn’t seem so bad… Gus spent the day with me, he is still recovering from pneumonia and is’t quite 100%… we went out and strung the cows out with a couple bales, so they’d go back where the grass is, or at least the new ones.. then the horsesContinue reading “Cold”

And a cold one to boot. 10 degree’s here today.. got 4 to 6 inches of snow on the ground, roads weren’t real pretty but we got the calves shipped.. lots of bawling cows in the corral.. calves looked good, weighed good and sold good, hard to find anything to complain about! Now, we willContinue reading “Shippin’ time!”

Fog rolled in yesterday evening and a little drizzle and snow and wind this morning.. we went and lured all the cows and calves in close with a tractor and a bale of hay… they came on the run… we have everything close and be handier to ship in the cold tomorrow, if the weatherContinue reading “Weather change”

Got all the pasture cattle loaded and hauled off today and we also hauled a couple of Tate’s cows and calve who were fence crawler…  now…. get the calves shipped on tuesday, preg on wednesday, sell the opens and go to buying bred cows… somewhere in there we need to get an old track hoeContinue reading “Done”