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Warmed up.. sure is ice to be in the 30’s and 50’s after being 20 some below for awhile… of course it was a little warmer during the days.. got up a little below zero… I must be getting old, as I can remember when we had 2 weeks or a month of below zeroContinue reading “Nicer weather”

Man, it went by kind off fast… how does that happen? Driest year I have ever seen… no grass left to graze to speak of, so we are feeding all they need… got about 5 or 6 inches of fresh snow the other day and night.. been down to 26 below for lows the lastContinue reading “Happy New Year”

Coldish and gonna get worse.. High barely above zero today they say and in a couple days the high is supposed to be below zero and the low in the 20 plus below range.. takes a lot of feed to keep cows warm in this weather… Was a pall bearer for Ardis Smiley.. the funeralContinue reading “Brr double rrr”

Tate and I took off about 3 am on Monday and headed for Sioux Falls.. got there in time for my flight to Orlando to where Chance had been working.. the work he was doing in hurricane recovery had dried up so he was headed home.. I got a fairly cheap flight so I couldContinue reading “Adventure”

Last Friday we had a man come out bringing a new to us pellet stove… he had worked on ours a couple times and the place he worked for always encouraged us to just buy a new stove as they were so much better.. in conversation, with the man who installs and works on them,Continue reading “Hmmmm….”

Just a touch of fall I the air, out there today, snow and a slight breeze up to and over 50 mph, they claim… I got the cattle fed behind protection last night.. all but the bulls.. they are usually behind the windbreak at night anyway.. of course, most weren’t this morning.. found some offContinue reading “Wheeeeeoowww”

Here it is December and the weather is hard to beat… wars up into the 40 ‘s and 50’s during the day, we have had some pretty stiff winds, but that is SD…people who don’t like cold and hot and dry and windy, probably shouldn’t live around here… just kind of been ding horse..putting about..TateContinue reading “Another nice day”

Another year has rolled around.. time to stop and reflect on the past and plan for the future.. we got some calves sold.. did well, all things considered.. we have had an extremely dry year.. drier than anything on record since 1960 where we live…but we managed to get all the cattle thru’ the dryContinue reading “Thanksgiving”

Not much to write about… I went back east and got another trailer load of hay a few days ago.. I don’t think I will be going for any more, tho’ am trying to find some cheap trucking to bring some more in.. supposed to ship some calves this next week.. I have been feedingContinue reading “Same old, same old”

Hay, that is.. got up at 3 a.m. this morning and headed east.. got back there in 5 hours, got loaded and headed home.. took me almost 12 hours total time over, load and get back.. was 12 hours by the time I got it all unloaded…only stopped to fuel up or go to theContinue reading “Haulin’”