Author Archives: dennisranch

It has been awhile since I wrote in here. It is hot this morning and going to get hotter… why is it that hotter is so hot, until you eventually get used to it, start doing your outside work earlier, taking a siesta until it cools off towards evening and then hoping for a niceContinue reading “Hot”

It was brought to my attention that I should add a link to get to my other two sites, that I update frequently.. one is instagram… and you can find it here… https://www.instagram.com/robertdennisranch/ And the other is a Facebook page, called Stay at Dennisranch and the link to it is here… https://www.facebook.com/Stay-at-Dennis-Ranch-100532484834363/ For some reason,Continue reading “Attention”

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”