Monthly Archives: April 2016

Worked on leather this morning, Cindy went to work, a little before noon, her “part time job’ where she used to work.. I worked on the forge all afternoon and into the evening, getting some cool stuff built, but sure wears an old fat man out.. Chance went with me to check cows tonight, heContinue reading “Typical spring day”

April…. showers???  Didn’t know they meant snow showers!!! Oh well, we need the moisture..doesn’t seem to be bothering’ the cattle too much but they will sure enjoy it when the sun comes out… rain, mostly, got to have it to make cow feed…   Worked on the forge this afternoon, Chance finished his set ofContinue reading “Hmmmmm….”

Some wind, kind of cool.. I spent most of the day working on an addition tom the corrals.. I had gotten some poles from a friend, old high line poles.. Tate picked me up some long posts, I dug holes and Fr Tyler helped me set the posts and tamp them… I used the tractorContinue reading “Another day on the prairie”

I saddled him and let him stand while I did some other stuff and then worked him afoot in the round pen for awhile, taught him to walk by me and to walk up while I stood on an elevated plank/catwalk.. stepped on and away we went. He is real nice. Thanks Dustin Dennis, youContinue reading “Hub”

Cindy and I did a calf check yesterday morning, caught Crackerjack and loaded him, a saddle and chaps and headed to Dustin’s. We left Crackie for awhile for Dustin to train on and brought Hub home.. he put about 45 days on him and he’s pretty nice… he could do about anything offs him heContinue reading “One thing and another”

KInd of cold and snowy this morning, but no wind.. by this afternoon it was just mud and green grass. Had three new babies out there this morning… got another one about mid morning.. pretty big day for no more than are supposed to be calving.. everybody was fine.. I fed out behind the houseContinue reading “Beautiful day”

We’ve had rain and snow and wind for the past few days… nothing real fierce… we gathered all the calving cows and kept them in the lane behind shelter belts, but yesterday evening the cows were tired of being locked up.. they got the gate open and let themselves into the small pasture where theContinue reading “Kind of a blizzard?”

When I went outside this morning and the wind wasn’t blowing! Amazing….. Cindy and I just came in from going and finding branches and sticks for the rails on the bannister.. cut a bunch of dead diamond willow and then picked up a bunch of rotted off fence posts.. not sure what or where weContinue reading “I about tipped over..”

Only up around 60 mph.. scattered a bunch of our boards up by the new house and we were hauling them in, fighting the wind. Real good day to do an explanation of how airplanes fly, I’d think… or to fly a kite! Got the rest of the boards up in the ceiling of theContinue reading “Slight breeze”