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Jan 27, 10

Today Cindy and I have been happily married for 20 years. And then about 12 years that were just kind of so so! 🙂 Went out to harness this morning and my team has escaped and went out with the wild bunch. So I plugged the tractor in and I will capture them anotherContinue reading “Jan 27, 10”

Just another….

beautiful day on the prairie! Sun is shining. Wind is blowing. But…… it was over 32 degrees when I went out to harness and feed! Ahh. January in west Dakota. Gotta love it! I have been working on getting the check’s in the Quicken file. Sure amazing ow much money passes thru’ myContinue reading “Just another….”

Some thoughts

Another beautiful day in West Dakota. Sun is shining, 29 degrees and just small breeze of about 28 mph, moving some soft snow around. I suppose if you was a wussy or a girly man or just wasn’t used to it, it would seem kind of nasty, but we on the High Plains are usedContinue reading “Some thoughts”

Cool poster for the poetry deal at the stockshow

Check this out

I’ve been seeing this and finally saw the whole story. Pretty scary. Check it out if you haven’t already. The Poor Farm: Me, Too.

More snow

Coming down lightly, but it is starting to accumulate. Kind of a white world, but fun to feed with a team in falling snow and little to no breeze. It was 22 when I looked, so not too bad. Chance is supposed to be coming to pick up Hope today. She and the boys haveContinue reading “More snow”

For the birthday “boy”.

Hard to believe that 30 years ago I rushed Cindy to Deadwood and about 5 pm (not quite an hour after we got there! ) our fist child, a son, was born. Happy Birthday Fr Tyler! May you have at least 70 more! All be joyous! Just like you. And wasn’t it nice of MotherContinue reading “For the birthday “boy”.”

1/20/11

Same old same old. Work on some leather, feed cows, you know. Hasn’t been real warm, but not real cols either. I am still waiting for the January thaw. Even tho’ it will mean more ice, but we already have quite a little of that. Stupid Bob was chasing a cow this morning and beforeContinue reading “1/20/11”

WOO HOO!!!!!!!!

Cindy got the mail and brought in a package and look what was inside! Maybe if any of you are reeaaalll nice to me, I’ll let you touch my new blanket! 😛 Thanks bunch Lisa, I love it! And the 3 finger mitts!

1/18/11

Snowing. Yayyyyy! Not really. Okay, I will take it as it is moisture and I can’t stop it anyway. But I am really ready for a January thaw! We had a lite snow and then a lite rain and man was it slickery out there! Did chores, worked on some leather and went and gotContinue reading “1/18/11”