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Got a skift of snow yesterday morning.. didn’t amount to much..feeding the cattle a little hay once in awhile to try and stretch the short grass we have, ..Gabe went wrestling yesterday afternoon and pinned 3 opponents… the other kids all had B Ball.. they played good.. didn’t really pay attention to who won orContinue reading “Not much new”

Of the flu bug, it seems.. wasn’t feeing the best on Thursday and by Thursday night  I realized I had the scours… dang.. and no bolus pills the right size! Cindy babied me as best she could with 6 grandkids here…. I stayed away from them as best I could.. I hate passing on sickness..Continue reading “Tis the season”

Yesterday. Delbert came over and helped.. we had 5 grandkids saddled up and they all helped..Tate and Chance and Hope and I all rode also, so we took the field with a large and wild contingent and the wild bovine never stood a chance! Went good. Chance and the adults plus Gabe sorted at theContinue reading “Worked calves”

Up before daylight, got Mijo saddled and loaded and drove north about 45 miles, we gathered the pairs and yearlings and got the calves stripped off and then I shoved al the calve thru’ the chute while they gave 3 shots and pour on… 1:30 before we were done and the vet showed up toContinue reading “Long day”

Helped a neighbor on Thursday and another on Friday to ship their calves, windy and cool both days, looks like fall is here… hope winter holds off, not much grass left but what there is, isn’t very tall, so would like to get it before it is covered with snow… Cindy and I went toContinue reading “Shipping time”

I took off last Monday afternoon and went to Martin, staying the night with Fr Tyler.. he drove me on down to Merriman Neb the next morning where we met up with Marty Blocker at 5:30 am… Marty and I spurred Silver and away we went, heading for the Poetry Gathering in Durango, Colorado…. weContinue reading “Whew!”

We took off the other morning and went back to Aberdeen area and got to flat bed loads of hay, behind the pickups, Tate’s and mine… Chance rode with me… long day but good hay and they pulled good..then yesterday morning Tate and I took off and left Chance and we went back on theContinue reading “Winter feed”

Tho the calendar tells me it is still summer, it isa fall for us… working calves, cooler temps… Cindy and I drove to Ft Pierre to go to their Heritage Festival, on Friday.. Chance, Hope and kids went also. Chance, Gus and I were to perform… went good, Gus did a great job.. Addy BearContinue reading “Fall”

We had a nice stretch of color weather but it stopped yesterday and they are saying it will be a warm weekend.. I got some chinking done in the mud room today, I forgot how bad it wears me out.. need to finish one wall but have to wait for this to dry so IContinue reading “Warmed back up”

Sept 2nd today… where did the summer go? Chance and I went and helped a neighbor the other day who had to move cattle because of the drought.. he was told he had to move his cattle, at the last minute, so us and some others went over to a big pasture on the gumboContinue reading “Fall”