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As Dennis Miller used to say on his TRV show, “I hate to get off on a rant here”, but…… We get a three day doozy of a blizzard. How long has it been since we had one of those in this country at Chriustmas? Been awhile. Setting here this morning reading all the commentsContinue reading “Whiners”

I went out yesterday about 3 pm and started diggin’ the tractor out and feed the stock. The wind and snow had let off just a bit. I will go back to it today after the sun comes up. Probably a lot of people will show up here sometime this afternoon.

This is the 3rd day of this. Just talked to a friend down south west of here not far from Cheyenne Wy and it sounds like they only have about an inch of snow and lots of wind. We have a drift almost as high as the box on my Dodge Ram 3/4 ton pickup.Continue reading “Still a blizzard”

Feeding in the snow and blowing and cold with a tractor with no cab reminded me of this poem. It’s an oldie but a goody! Hope you like it! I wrote it back in 1993 at Christmas time. It’s all true. The Gift It had been bitter cold, for three long days The wind blewContinue reading “Your second gift”

And here is my gift to you. Only one of many, go and read this, right now! It is wonderful and someday will hopefully be a small part of a greater book! From my friend Jim, probably one of the greatest writers of our time, in my view! http://werdfu.blogspot.com/2009/12/greetings-from-north-pole-part-vii_25.html

Blowing good out there with gusts up to 40 mph. Here’s some pictures from today. I went up west with the tractor and got two old bales and hauled them home and the cows followed me just like I planned. We were without power from 12:30 pm until a while ago. I had the generatorContinue reading “Still Wintry”

Southeast breeze blowing and they are always cold. I hauled a bale out to the calves and unrolled part of it with the re-built bale unroller yesterday. Seemed to work great. I unloaded the left over part of it at the corral for the colts and team or who ever is in the corral. SoundsContinue reading “Wintry!”

I got Gramma to go along with me to feed calves with the team yesterday. We even drove up the crick and looked at the bean to see if I needed to take more up. Worked on my bob sled and some leather too. For supper I made tortilla’s (smiling country’s recipe) and Cindy madeContinue reading “12/22/09”

First off, this will be a rough look and just hit averages as to my opinion. Land in my area recently sold for a high of $560 an acre. This land will take about 20 acres to run a cow/calf pair for a year, tho’ maybe with these newer larger cows, it might take aContinue reading “Ranch economics”

I was just over at Linda’s blog and there was a comment about cost and expense and income of a rancher. Would anyone be interested in a rough over view of that, for this area? Also, I went to Punkin Center today for a part and some other doo dads and ran onto our stateContinue reading “A question for my readers”