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Well, we just got home for another great Cowboy Christmas Concert at Lead at the Homestake Opera house. Great line up of entertainers and the crowds all said they loved it. We had a couple of sold out shows and one almost sold out. The weather might have kept a few away. Saturday was kindContinue reading “Cowboy Christmas”

Been a little chilly the past couple days, but its is the 11th of December. Got some more loads of hay in, in the past couple weeks. Looks like we will have enough to get us thru’ for quite awhile, maybe to spring. We got some snow and it somewhat covered up the grazing, butContinue reading “Winterish!”

We had friends and family come out.. cold and windy… some of the kids hadn’t been on a ranch before so they went along to feed the bum calves. They seemed to enjoy it. Some of the horses were in getting a drink so, they got to see some and pet a horse. Supposed toContinue reading “Thanksgiving”

Chance and I left at O dark thirty this morning and drove back to Hoven, pulling Tates smaller trailer and got some bags of extruded soybean to feed the cows and calves.. it is very high protein and fat and the only grain that doesn’t chance the CLA in beef, which is the good stuffContinue reading “Getting feed”

Been warm and not much of even a breeze, the last couple days. Supposed to stay this way into next week, tho’ looks like we do have some wind coming. But it is SD and we almost always have wind. Unless your relying on a windmill for water for the cows! Cindy and I haveContinue reading “Nice weather”

Bundled up and saddled up and went north this morning to gather cows to preg. Cold and biting wind. we got them gathered and went to stuffing them down the chute for the vet to preg. Got done about 2:30 and went and ate lunch. Pretty good day, we kind of got a little outContinue reading “Brrr”

Cooled off the past couple days and got some snow off and on, but so far it has melted during the day… had a half inch of moisture ninth rain gauge the other day for rain and melted snow… still awfully wet and muddy. This year is one for the record books. Supposed to stayContinue reading “Cooler weather”

I went over and helped a neighbor pair off his heifer calves and bring them in and wean them.. there were 4 of us horseback.. worked good and was fun. I took Gabe and Gus and we went North pretty early Saturday morning to help trail some cattle home for neighbors. I need to goContinue reading “Cow work”

Not sure how much snow we got.. 6 inches to perhaps a foot… rain/snow gauge shows a bit over 6 inches, but it was blowing pretty good all the time it was snowing, so not sure if it is right.. cattle seemed to weather it.. Chance and I got the bale unrolled on the backContinue reading “Kind of wintery”