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Went to the neighbors on Monday morning to help ship their calves. Went real well. Had a good crew, so it wasn’t unexpected. Also a real nice morning. Chance and I got the bred heifers in yesterday and after lunch Cindy helped us and we ear tagged and put individual brands on them. Came upContinue reading “Fall works”

Our large area, small population community, (like most of the areas in western SD) has a community hall. There has been one here since the start of the town back in 1908, I believe. Over the years several have set here. New ones built, old ones moved or torn down and a few years ago,Continue reading “Volksmarch”

It ain’t really fall yet, but people been giving the booster shots to calves. We did ours today, Eric and Quint helped us and Eli, Aricat and Sissy…good crew, cool morning done by noon. Cindy and I went over to Hullett, Wy Saturday and watched the bronc riding.. I still think it might be theContinue reading “FALL WORKS”

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”