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3? 4? Who knows? Big wet flakes been sifting down from the northeast for quite a spell. Couple inches of the new stuff, anyway. Lots of it melted as it hit. I put two cows that might calve in the corral/shed and the cow with the new baby. I’ll check on the others before darkContinue reading “Blizzard number……”

Heres one of the latest. Got another I’m working on but not too happy with it yet. Let me know what you think, if you haven’t already. Cowboy Poets? I don’t know nuthin’ about cowboys all I know is horses and cattle There ain’t no time to go to poetry events I’m too busy withContinue reading “Okay kids….”

Just got this again in email. If you’ve seen it, it’s worth reading again. I think we all need to copy and paste and send it to our people inWashington, as I don’t think they really get it, do you? A letter from the Boss: To All My Valued Employees, There have been some rumblingsContinue reading “So very true…..”

The other day while watching TV, they were talking about some bright lights in the east coast and explaining that it was most likely some piece of space junk, falling from the sky. They claimed that it would be traveling thousands of miles per hour. I thought anything that fell, reached an ultimate speed ofContinue reading “Just thinking…”

Did anyone get to prank anybody. I didn’t. Yet! Bwahahahahahahaha! I did get dug up west and hauled some bales home so I am feeling lots better about the next storm coming in this Friday. Hopefully it won’t amount to much, but right now my weather is calling for about 10 inches of fresh snow.Continue reading “April fools”

Out there this morning when I went to check cows and plug the tractor in. 16 the thermometer said. May. May would be a good time to start calving around here, I think. 🙂

I went out this afternoon to dig and move snow with the tractor so Cindy could get out to go to work in the morning and people could drive in. I pushed a load out of the driveway and across the road and dumped it in the ditch and when I went to bvck up…………..theContinue reading “Whew!”

March Blizzard 09 There’s an arctic knife cuttin’ ‘cross the snowdrifts scattered ‘round slicin’ a few flakes loose to blow ‘fore they slither to the ground that knife wind cuts into my cheek where my beard don’t cover skin my eyes are shutter’d about halfmast but my mouth has got a grin this March blizzardContinue reading “Revised a bit”

Is here! Snow coming in horizontilly as I type. Wind out of the north east and slowly coming around to the north. Chance and I sorted off 4 cows last evening that looked like they might calve and locked them in the shed. None had calved yet this morning. When I got up in theContinue reading “A new blizzard”