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But we have ben doctoring sick calves…lost a couple… not sure why we go through this every fall.. seems like everybody does… we caught and doctored 7 yesterday and 7 today, tho’ one of those was a steer we cut last week and his bag was stolen up huge… almost looked like a foot ballContinue reading “Still nice weather”

Got up to 60 or better today, south wind blew, but wasn’t bad… I did some jobs around here this morning, getting ready for cattle working on Saturday, had to go get some special bolts for the chute so drove Teddy and got his oil changed.. been over a year.. not sure how many miles,Continue reading “Nice weather”

Cool, trying to rain… we have doctored on some sick calves, so it must be fall… we spent most of the day at school with Gabe and Lige for grandparents day… it was fun and interesting to see what they are learning and how they are teaching them.. hope this rain keeps up.. we areContinue reading “It must be fall”

Woke up yesterday to about 2 inches of rain in the rain gauge. Praise the Lord! We sure wanted some and tho’ it made muddy roads it sure helps the country… I have been fighting pain in both my feet for years and Cindy has mentioned (some might call it nagging, I won’t!) that IContinue reading “Rain!”

They say travel broadens a person… dang sure easy to broaden when you travel like we do and eat like we do, tho’ this morning when I weighed myself I was a few pounds lighter… sure could have fooled me as we drove over 2000 miles and mostly just sat, ate or slept (sure wishContinue reading “Travel”

Went to a horse sale last weekend. Bid on a couple colts but evidently my taste is too good in horses as they went higher than I was willing to pay. Went to another one today… part of it was a dispersion sale… mares went pretty high and again colts were higher than what IContinue reading “HORSE SALES”

Loaded up early this morning to go help the neighbors with fall shots.. took Hub to ride. Hub is 6 or 7 and had sporadic training… it was a great day to ride him.. lots of cows to sort off and much up and alley and a gather and moving pairs later.. wore me outContinue reading “Cow work”

Went to the wagon ride Tuesday after stopping to get my pickup alignment checked… spent the night and came home last night, got up this morning and me and some minions went and gathered bull, brought them to the corrals and sorted 4 off to go south and 2 to go u north. Ari wentContinue reading “Bulls at work”

Went in to town yesterday afternoon, for Cindy’s sisters wedding.. she was a beautiful bride..we are getting old, Cindy had to work today so we left fairly early.. got home about 10:30.. we were going to move some cows today but one calf was missing.. not sure how we did it, but we have aContinue reading “Warmish.. must be July!”

We’ve been having a great summer.. rained a lot.. people have been having a hard time getting hay put up between the rains, until the past week or so… grass and hay everywhere,,, sure looks better than last year! The boys found some pasture away from here, so we sorted pairs last week and weekendContinue reading “It’s been awhile”