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Another nice day. The wind hardly blew. I wish I had burned my dump. Sounds like we got some snow coming next week. So far we are still pretty white. The snow hasn’t melted and crusted too much so the cows can still graze. My big tank at the corral has been running over andContinue reading “12/19/09”

While visiting with a man who was born and raised in Poland and who’s parents still live there, he mentioned that his father was in the hospital for the last 3 weeks with pneumonia. This brought up socialized medicine, as our country is trying so hard to get, evidently. You remember Poland. The country whoContinue reading “How’s that?”

A friend and neighbor has been on trial and I just read that he won! It’s nice to know that justice can prevail! Chance and I shot and dressed a big steer this morning and hauled him to Newell to the butcher. We ate a bite after dropping him off and then stopped back atContinue reading “Great news!”

Yeah, I skipped posting for a day. Hey, even the Lord rested on Sunday! Dropped down to the single digits again, but supposedly it’s going to warm up into the 30’s and maybe even hit 40 by Thursday. Thats good as Chance and I need to butcher a steer and haul him to the lockerContinue reading “12/14/09”

Cindy needed to have some work done on her car so she left it in town the other day when I was in and rode home with me. Then she drove my old wreck until today. I had to run her in and then came home and started my day. Caught and hooked up theContinue reading “12/12/09”

I went in to Rapid City yesterday and did some shopping then on to Sturgis to pick up Cindy. Her car had a warning light on so she left it at a garage to get fixed. We headed over to Spearfish and did some more shopping and got some planks to work on the bedContinue reading “Friday 12-11-09”

Sounds like a headline from Alaska, tho’ we were colder than them the other day! December of 84 or 85, it got down around 25 below and stayed there for some time. I remember on Christmas eve, it was 24 below and the wind was blowing. I was trying to pitch hay onto a wagonContinue reading “Still cold”

“Baby, it’s cold outside” as my Mom used to say! 9 below out there as I write this at a quarter to 8 am. I plugged the tractor and the pickup in, tho’ I should go harness the team and pitch some hay on or unroll a bale as they will run with out beingContinue reading “Just sorta coolish”

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6:54 am, it is 5 degrees. About 2 inches of snow, maybe. Winter. Only good thing I can think of right now is that JJ won the saddle bronc riding last night!