2/10/11

Warmer and windy. Supposed to get up in the 30’s and then 40’s and stay that way for  awhile. I hope so. Might get rid of some snow and ice.

My Halfy’s are officially a team, this morning. Hooked on to a bale that was froze down and when I winched it up it pulled the front of the wagon way up high in the air. When I stepped up there in front I couldn’t even over balance it. I took a hold and spoke to them and you want to talk about scratch and dig together, from one side to the other until they got it popped loose. Man! It was cool! I just love it when a team really works together as a team!

2/9/11

Glen Long’s birthday. wonder why some people’s birthday’s stick in  my head and others don’t. I’ve known Glen all my life and them people’s birthday’s seem to stick.

Chilly out there. Zero when I first looked. Now it’s four above and a lite wind blowin’.

Boys got up so I made them some breakfast. Bacon and eggs and toast. One ate his bacon and part of his egg and toast, the other aye his egg and bacon but no toast. Sure beats the hell out of cereal!

Off to the tax man later today. Oh wheee. I don’t know if I can stand the fun !

Well, I better go harness up and get them cows fed.

2/7/11

Two seven eleven. Kind of has a ring to it!

Snowed last night and this morning. Couple more inches of fluff. Chance and Hope and boys came out yesterday afternoon. They have a tax appointment this afternoon and then Chance is taking his trailer back to Nebraska with him. guess the boys are going to stay here while they are gone then Hope will come back for a few days. My tax appointment is Wednesday.

Supposed to get colder, but doesn’t look as bad as was earlier predicted.

Watched most of the Super bowl. As always, the commercials were the best. I really didn’t care who won as I am not a sports fan, but I was kind of cheering for the Packers as I do know a few people in Wisconsin.

I heard Oprah and Ellen DeGeneres had a side bet and if Oprah lost she had to give her TV channel to Ellen. Wonder if she welshed? Maybe she was rooting for the Packers? Anybody hear anything about it?

ICY!!!!!!

Rained last night and there are puddles on to of ice around here. Real, real, real slippery!

I am letting my chest waders warm up as I had them out in the red storage barn next to the house. When they do I will pull them on and go see if I can chop enough ice so the waterhole in the corral will drain away. Or at least get smaller.

Makes me wish I was sharp shod like my horses!

2/4/11

34 degrees and a warm west wind blowin’. Snow is getting mushy.

I did chores and then drove down to Rapid to Meet Hope and the boys. Had some mail and hamburger for her. She has been staying at her sisters down there. Chance is supposed to be home tomorrow night as they have a tax appointment on Monday.

We hooked up and walked thru’ the booths at the Stockshow and I had to buy Gus and Sam each a straw hat for this summer as their Dad said them cheap wool ones are too hot in the summer. Wish I could find them palm leaf ones that fit as they are fairly cheap and last a long time.

Not much man stuff there, mostly for women who probably have the check book anyway. Only a couple good tack booths. I did get me some gloves, a scarf and a new wool vest. I was home by 3 or so. Just in time to help Cindy pack in the monthly groceries she bought.

Supposed to cool off in another day or so and then hopefully warm back up. The cows were out grazing when I came home yesterday. They are getting tired of bales and want fresh feed and springtime weather. So do most of the rest of us.

Groundhog day

I hear he seen his shadow or not, whichever, but supposedly it means we are going to have an early spring. How in the hell can a rodent in Pennsylvania tell what it’s going to do around here?

Oh well, maybe we will have an early spring. I seen lots of spring blizzards in this country so I don’t think it has much effect on the weather!

Warmed up above 0 today and supposed to get up to 30 or so for the next few days and then cool off again. Of course the wind is going to blow.

I been feeding with the tractor the last couple days so as to feed up the drifted in alfalfa hay the deer are ruining. Got it all out to where I can feed the last couple bales with the tam and am ready to use them again. The other horses came into the yard just before this cold set in so I kept them in and been babying them. I put out a l9ot of hay for this little bunch of stock but that is the only way they can keep warm, so I will feed it if I got it and I refuse to starve a critter. Not like some I have read about. Sonsabitches!

 

Feb 1/ 11

I was gonn’a  put a new post up today but I can’t as my computer is froze up. literally from the cold!

11 below last night and still 11 below this morning . I think the thermometer is  froze up too! Brrrr.

Now, if the wind will just quit blowing. Supposed to be down to 25 below by tomorrow morning and then warm back up to 9 above. Brrrr!

Did I mention, brrrrrrrr?

A story

I keep forgetting to tell you all about.

When I catch my team in the morning, I let them walk into their stall where I have a bucket in each manger with a little grain for them. Then I go out and grain the colts and some other stuff.

Well, when I came walking back into the barn the other morning, on the day the team had escaped, they had grain in their buckets from that day so when I went to catch them and they were gone, I didn’t add any, just turned them in their stalls.

I walked into the barn and Ron is standing about halfway back out of his stall, looking at the manger kind of funny. I walked up and looked down in his bucket and here was a little, fat mouse in the bucket. I wonder who was shocked worse, that poor little bitty ol’ mouse or that big fat horse who stuck his nose in that bucket? 🙂

Ron has been real careful about sticking his nose in the bucket ever since. Wonder if the mouse tried to bite him? 🙂

Reminds me of Dumbo! LOL

Sunday Jan 30, 11

I got my chores done yesterday and then ran in to Spearfish to watch Gabe wrestle. I’d forgot how many people show up at them things! It was fun to watch and all them little people running around was fun, but we sat at the top of a huge gym and it was sweltering. With the odor of sweaty children! Man, I had forgotten what that was like. I guess I am more of a hermit. Too many people for my taste. You couldn’t hardly walk.

Then I went and picked up Cindy when she got off work and we ran up to Deadwood to met fiends fro back east, but they were still putting around in Rapid, so we drove back to Spearfish so Cindy could see and hold Arabelle. Then back to Deadwood and hooked up with our friends. Had a good visit and did some gambling and ate too good.

We headed back to Sturgis where Cindy stayed with her mother and I headed home. My first experience at driving on black ice. I went to turn and the car didn’t turn very well! So I slowly drove to Cindy’s mom’s apartment and when we got there I stuck my foot out of the car and man was it slick. but didn’t look it. I started for home very slowly, every once in awhile I’d stomp on the brakes to see if the road conditions had changed any and as I went east they just got better and better. By the time I was to the Belle Fourche river bridge about 15 miles out from Sturgis the pavement was fine.

This morning there is a cold south eastern breeze blowing and it’s cold in the kitchen. I am supposed to meet Cindy at Punkin’ Center when she gets off work and we will drive to Rapid to do a poetry gig. Snow this afternoon and tonight is predicted. We will probably get a couple 3 inches. Cold too. Not much above zero tomorrow. If I hadn’t told them I would be there, I’d stay home. Oh well, I am always up for a new adventure!