Monthly Archives: May 2015

Set up portable corrals for branding this morning, tagged some calves, some were too fast and we will haves to catch them with a horse and rope.. took the head off a hydrant, down south, that froze up and broke last winter and replaced it with the one that was leaking behind the house, thatContinue reading “Another pretty day”

Went to Franks and branded today. Gabe ran a calf fork all during the branding and did a great job.. Tate borrowed Pilgrim from men and roped and did good, tho’ he sez he can’t rope… Frank told me to go ahead and rope also, so i put the saddle Tate had been riding onContinue reading “Roping fun”

Rain is softly falling, not much of a breeze… Cindy and I went to Mud Butte for Mass last night as she wouldn’t her able to go today…then we went to Tate and Kass’s for a birthday party for CC.. we had cake and ice cream on her real birthday, but this one had lotsContinue reading “A soft day”

When we were in town awhile ago, we bought some used baseball gloves and bat and balls… so this evening, all the grandkid, parents and Tyler and Gramma and I played ball.. sure had fun… the kids were getting the idea by the time we quit.. we need to get a better field than outContinue reading “Good clean fun.”

Went well, cold and windy when we started and just got nicer and nicer.. when I got home Tate and Chance and I went and sorted the pairs off the drop bunch and kicked the drop bunch back south, they will stay there, no more pairs kicked out until our later branding… then Tate andContinue reading “Q & J’s done”

We got Glen’s calves worked this afternoon.. there was 2.5 inches of rain in the bucket in front of the house this morning… we started over there a bit after 2 and got done about 7 this evening.. got rained on a little at the end, then it cleared off.. another bunch tomorrow if itContinue reading “Another bunch done”

It’s wonderful stuff. Praise the Lord! We are getting some and supposed to get more tonight… and into tomorrow! I love it. Chance and Lori and I made a flying trip to Sheridan and back today.. getting stuff for Lori so she can learn to tool and carve leather… had a great time, spent moreContinue reading “Rain!”

Looks like we got about 2 or 2 and a half inches of moisture out of this last storm.. good chance for more all thru’ the week and into the weekend… We had a wild night Sunday night… Tyler and I went and checked at 10 and found a cow having a backwards calf, soContinue reading “Moisture”

Boys checked cattle in the night, I got up at daylight and went out, every thing seemed ok, for what we have.. about 6 to 8 inches of snow and some wind out of the north.. I thought the wind was supposed to pick up even worse as the day went along so i tookContinue reading “Snow”

Last week we got some rain.. we were at a branding and got the first bunch done, but didn’t do the second bunch… then the next day we had to wait until afternoon to do another ranch, the next day or so.. we had good weather yesterday, so we did the ranch that was scheduledContinue reading “Spring in South Dakota”