Jan 27, 10

Today Cindy and I have been happily married for 20 years.

 

And then about 12 years that were just kind of so so! 🙂

Went out to harness this morning and my team has escaped and went out with the wild bunch. So I plugged the tractor in and I will capture them another day as I have to go to town today.

It’ thawed all night and it is a skating rink out there this morning. Yes, yes, we are getting a January thaw, at least for a few days!

Just another….

beautiful day on the prairie!

Sun is shining.

Wind is blowing.

But……

 

it was over 32 degrees when I went out to harness and feed!

 

Ahh. January in west Dakota. Gotta love it!

I have been working on getting the check’s in the Quicken file. Sure amazing ow much money passes thru’ my hands and then right out to the bills.

Got the gig at the Stockshow in Rapid, tomorrow evening. Supposed to start at 5 or so I guess. Then another on Sunday. Ought to be fun and they are giving me and Cindy a room for the night if we want it. So we can stay and make merry into the wee hours of the night.

 

At our age, that is like, 10:30 or so. 😉

Some thoughts

Another beautiful day in West Dakota. Sun is shining, 29 degrees and just small breeze of about 28 mph, moving some soft snow around. I suppose if you was a wussy or a girly man or just wasn’t used to it, it would seem kind of nasty, but we on the High Plains are used to this kind of weather and relish it! Bracing! Makes you feel like a he man!

Some thoughts while I was out feeding this morning with the team:

Laura over at Fetch My Flying Monkeys blog, (she is on my blog roll off to the side of this, but her blog is not for the faint of heart!I read it every day and sometimes several times a day. But be careful before you go to bad mouthing her as she has dinosaurs and flying monkey’s and was trained to kill in the Armed Forces of the good ol’ US of A!) has been going on and on about George Clooney. Like he’s something special. Oh, he can act a little bit and he’s got that over the hill scruffy, gray speckled beard that some younger women with a father complex seem to like, but other than that he’s just another run of the mill, liberal Hollywood dufus. I mean come on! He’s never had but one decent movie and that was O Brother Where Art thou. The only reason he was any good in it was that the Cohen brothers must have used a cattle prod on him to finally get him to show some real emotion. And I admit, he had some worth remembering and quotable lines. But I just don’t see it. I guess there are no accounting for tastes.

But all this made me think about that paragon of southern womanhood who upholds all the claims to class and good nature and outstanding beauty, America’s sweetheart, Sandra Bullock. Now that’s a women!

She is on my list. Matter of fact, she is at the head of my list. You know the list. Each spouse is allowed so many other people they could have a fling with, and the other spouse can’t say a word. I think your allowed like 5 or so. Anyway, Sandra is at the top of my list. ( I think Tom Selleck is at the top of Cindy’s and she got to meet him, so I am way behind!) And I am told Sandra owns property not to far from here. So the chances are good that one day I could actually meet her, and sweep her off her feet, so to speak, with my jolly good nature and older man , rancher/cowboy style good looks and charm. (hey, it’s my dream so shut up!)

And the best part? The older she gets, the better chance I have! 🙂

More snow

Coming down lightly, but it is starting to accumulate. Kind of a white world, but fun to feed with a team in falling snow and little to no breeze. It was 22 when I looked, so not too bad. Chance is supposed to be coming to pick up Hope today. She and the boys have been in Rapid at her sister’s the past few days. Hopefully the snow won’t bother them coming and going back. I built him a set of saddle bags as he will be calving some cattle soon down at his job. Sure glad we ain’t supposed to get any until after the 1st of April. Right now, 1st of May looks like a better option!

By the way, for those of you who have commented and haven’t seen it come up, I just went thru’ and found these past comments and for some reason wordpress thought they might be spam. so go and look and most of them are on here now. I had to delete a couple as they were spam or some kind of nonsense. For all you new people who have commented, thank you. Nice to know some people read this drivel! 🙂

For the birthday “boy”.

Hard to believe that 30 years ago I rushed Cindy to Deadwood and about 5 pm (not quite an hour after we got there! ) our fist child, a son, was born. Happy Birthday Fr Tyler! May you have at least 70 more! All be joyous! Just like you.

And wasn’t it nice of Mother Nature to give you  a slightly snowy, blustery day, for it? 🙂

When the good Father was a small child, he delighted in telling people he was born on the 21 of January and that his mother and I were married on the 27 th. He always failed to mention the wedding took place two years before his birth. :0

1/20/11

Same old same old. Work on some leather, feed cows, you know.

Hasn’t been real warm, but not real cols either. I am still waiting for the January thaw. Even tho’ it will mean more ice, but we already have quite a little of that. Stupid Bob was chasing a cow this morning and before I got him stopped she hit a patch of snow covered ice and down she went, just skating along. Didn’t land too hard, and she got right up and I think she will be fine but it always makes me nervous, thinking about slipped calves and such.

Going in to town this afternoon for a doc appointment for a check up. One of them “over 50” deals! I can hardly wait! 😦

Then this evening we are hosting the Adult Ed for the church. Wonder what Fr will inform us of tonight?

1/18/11

Snowing.

Yayyyyy!

Not really.

Okay, I will take it as it is moisture and I can’t stop it anyway. But I am really ready for a January thaw!

We had a lite snow and then a lite rain and man was it slickery out there! Did chores, worked on some leather and went and got a horse trailer Chance had bought from a neighbor.

That’s about all for now.

Did I mention I would like it to get warm and thaw? From now until spring?