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Today is Gabes 14th birthday…man, I am getting old.. I notice it with this winter.. I can think of lots worse winters.. Chance claims last year was colder, longer, but I don’t remember that.. ah, the beauty of losing you mind, with age!But this one seems to be dragging on and on… Yesterday just asContinue reading “Cold…still”

Been having some water problems at the corral and Chances house… got to cold in the basement of the old house and it caused the pump to malfunction.. we got it going again day before yesterday.. then yesterday afternoon, Chance noticed he had no water.. usually happens when the cattle are drinking a lot andContinue reading “Long day”

23 as I write this at non… no breeze to speak of.. It got cold enough to mess up the pump in the old house, so there was no water to the corrals or at Chances last night.. the boys put a couple heaters around it and this morning it still wasn’t working.. we wentContinue reading “Nice!”

Here it’s been from below zero to barely above for a week or so and supposed to warm up a little today and tomorrow, and our thermometer sez’ it is 23 above…not sure if it is wrong or not.. seems pretty nice out there.. cattle standing around soaking p sunshine, not hardly a breeze.. weContinue reading “Weird”

9:30 am, -1 degrees, a stiff breeze making it feel colder.. snowing with about 2 inches of fresh fluffy snow… it keeps this up, like it is supposed to according to my weather, it is going to make me think it could turn in to winter!

Groundhog day, they say… we don’t have any so it doesn’t make any difference.. I don’t trust him anyways… Nice, got up to 50 or better… we went and got some protein for the calves/thin bunch and then moved the other cows down south.. better grass there than where they have been. It is slickeryContinue reading “Feb 2. 2019”

Got up about 50 today and water is running this afternoon… pretty cool! Cindy has been sick for awhile now and is finally getting better. She can smell things again! She is pretty excited about that. We ran in to town today to get more pellets for the stove, groceries and a beef we hadContinue reading “Warm”

Bit nippy out there this morning.. 0 when I looked…and still wind. Ahh, the wind..on the up side, I just read on Facebook , a story that claimed the extreme cold might keep the Emerald Ash Borer , a little bug that is supposed to kill all our Ash trees, at bay. So… we gotContinue reading “Brrr!”

Well, we had a great time in Hulett. Chuck Larsen and Paul Larson and I had did a show out there this afternoon. D & K rode out with Cindy and I and we had a great visit all the way out and back. they all said they enjoyed the show. We stopped in SpearfishContinue reading “Sat. Jan 26, 2019”

Got pretty chilling, night before last. Around zero… bit windy and not real warm yesterday but then warmed up into the 20’s in the night and supposed to stay that way today and warmer tomorrow and Sunday. Headed over to Hulett, tomorrow for a gig there in the afternoon. Sounds like D and K areContinue reading “Friday, Jan, 25, 19”