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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”

We feed cattle every day. Calves are weaned off and out in the lot east of the headquarters. Supposed to get some snow and wind today, so brought them in from the pasture, east of that lot and locked them in behind protection. They had tore out some fence between the lot and the shelterContinue reading “Winter chores”

Today Tate Chance ands I sorted some cattle around, moved most of the bulls down to Tates, sorted a couple calves off the cows that got back in after we weaned and a couple thinner cows off and moved the cows back up the creek. It was windy and raining on us as we movedContinue reading “Cattle work”

I had my annual birthday yesterday. Who would have thought I would live this long? Colder today. 0 early and probably 10 or so now. Supposed to warm up in a few days. Warming up is relative.. when it gets above freezing we will think it is pretty nice. But our southern friend think itContinue reading “Older and colder!”

About 3 to 4 inches of fresh snow out there this morning..but not much wind. I guess the Good Lord knew I wanted to feed the calves on clean snow!