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Wind has been blowing out of the south east for three days.. really getting up there at times.. spreading the flowers pollen I guess. Chance had to run in to town today so Sam stayed with me and Gramma. So Sam and I went up and took some wire off a fence that needs tornContinue reading “Windy”

This is the time of year where the cows get shots and the baby calves get worked.. when I say babies, I don’t mean new borns.. no they are big enough to give as good as they get! We went to one on Thursday, got the first bunch worked while it threatened rain… got theContinue reading “Branding season”

We needed to get the drop bunch across the road and on to green grass, so this morning after we watched Mass on TV, a bunch of runt cowhands and Chance and I went out and brought them in and sorted off the yearlong heifers and the dry cows (the drop bunch will be gettingContinue reading “Sortin’”

Hope you all havre a Happy Easter! We are getting a good start on calving and got snow and wind last night and this morning just the wind.. supposed to keep it up for several days, but supposed to warm up a bit as we get into the week… here is what happened last night…Continue reading “Happy Easter”

Weather has warmed up.. been a few real nice days in a row..we started getting some baby calves… I guess it’s spring…. Now, before you get all excited and think “Hey! No more winter!” Well… your kind of right.. no, winter is past.. but that doesn’t mean we can’t have some spring storms.. most ofContinue reading “Spring has sprung”

Yesterday while skiving leather on a saddle skirt I am building, I slipped and got my hand in the way of a very sharp tool… cut into my index finger.. Cindy and Chance thought it needed stitches, so against my will I went in.. sure enough, 6 stitches.. I do have to say that itContinue reading “Ouch”

Awful nice for March. Got up to 70 seems like and hardly a breath of wind.. a whole bunch of runt cowhands saddled up and wen’t with their father and uncle and grampa and we got all the cows in and sorted off the coming 2 year old, first calf heifers. There were a fewContinue reading “Beautiful day”

So..we march onward… When I went out to feed today, there were horses in with the steers, heifer calves and some cows in the pasture next to them, headed towards us.. so I hurried up and fed the grain to the steers (luckily the horses had no idea what I was doing) and then hauledContinue reading “March”

Got up to over 50 today! I needed to sort heifer calves from steers and as both the boys are off doing other things and all the grandkids were in school or sick, Kyle Brink came over and helped me. Worked good. We got the heifers sorted and out with the cows. The steer calvesContinue reading “Nice weather”

For the one or two of you who follow this blog, you have likely noticed that it has a changed a bit. Being thrifty in nature, I decided to rearrange this to help Cindy and I in the new adventure of a guest ranch. So the main page got changed. Hopefully for the best. SoContinue reading “New look”