12-9-10

Real nice weather. Kind of a chinook blowing. Got up over 40 today.

I went down to the Baptist Church at Punkin Center a little after 12 and played and sang Christmas Hymns. Read a couple winter poems for them. Everyone seemed to enjoy it. They do this once a month and it’s mainly the older folks who come and visit and play some games. Nice deal and it was fun to take part.

Yesterday while practicing Gus got his guitar to practice with me. He even had to get himself a piece of paper to look at like I had! Here’s a couple pictures.

12.8.10

Grampa had a helper today to do chores. Hope brought Sam and Gus out yesterday and stayed over for a spell. So I found some old chaps of one of Gus’s uncles or his dad’s to help keep his legs warm and we went chorin’. He was a real big help!

December 7, 10

Pearl Harbor day. Good time to remember we are never completely safe. And take actions to be prepared. Kind of like the Advent song we have been singing, “Prepare Ye the Way”.

Such a gorgeous day out there that even Gramma went with me to feed and chore this morning. She claim’s I only married her for someone to open gates, so I made her prove it!

Fed around here then took some bean up west to the cows. Here’s some pictures.

 

Monday 12/6/10

Another beautiful day, tho’ pretty darn crispy this morning!

Got the cattle fed and then went up to the neighbor to the west and loaded and hauled calves to Philip, for tomorrows sale. He took a trailer load also and then he will take a truck load tomorrow.

After we dropped off the calves and ate a bite I stopped and put some checks in the bank then went to the grocery store. Because I always carry a pistol in my pickup, it’s my habit to always lock my doors, except when at home. I have an extra set of keys hanging on the flipper switch for tilting the wheel. Normally I just stick them in my pocket in case I screw up and forget to take the keys out of the ignition. Today I screwed up and forgot to take the keys out of the ignition. and also forgot to take the keys off the flipper switch. Damn!

Luckily, the place I bought Teddy at was just a block down the street, so I called them on my cell phone and they knew the serial number for the pickup so they cut me a new one. It worked!

Now I have an extra, extra key! And it only cost $22!

Wow!

How cool is that?

Not!

I hate getting old and losing my mind. 😦

Now, off to watch the WNFR on TV! 🙂

Sunday Dec 5, 10

Boy is it a beautiful day out there! Sun is shining, making the snow all sparkly. About 27  above as I write this. Not hardly a breeze. Makes me want to hook to a sleigh with the team and give somebody a ride! Maybe when Cindy gets home, or tomorrow.

Fed the calves, old cows some hay and opened the gate so they can go pick. seemed like the old cows figured out they will get fed some bean in a bunk, so they ought to all come in tomorrow morning for their bean. Might just mix some with salt and self feed them like I do the cows up the creek.

Been printng off lots of music from the Hymn book. Goit a young feller who is starting to play bass with me at church and his sister now lives close and was at church last night. He wasn’t there so I sent his music off with her so she can practice and I printed more off for him this morning. She plays the violin and her new husband also plays some instrument but didn’t find out what. I suggest they have a house warming/jam session so we could practice and she sounded up for it. Sure is great to get these young folks in church. Especially when they have kids. They worry about the noise their kids make but us old folks don’t. They ain’t gonna learn nothin’ if you wait to take them when you have rigid control of them. And church (at least ours, anyway) seems to be good for people. Young and old alike. I know my week sure goes better when I’ve been to Mass.

And I have to go play some Christmas songs for some folks this week. Also I volunteered to play music for another small church on Christmas eve before we have our Mass. They have no musician, and while I ain’t a very good one, I can pound out a tune that they can follow along with singing. and who don’t like to sing Christmas song, beside the Grinch? 🙂

Bet my fingers are going to get sore with all the practice, but hell, if I played as often as I should they would be in shape anyway! 🙂

Any of you know the song, Alleluia, Hurry the Lord is Near? Man! We rock out on that one! 🙂

12/3/10 Afternoon

Went out this afternoon and saddled up Pilgrim and brought the cows in and sorted off a few who are older and/or thinner. None are in bad shape yet, but it’s easier to keep them in good shape than to try and get them in good shape. Especially them ol’ gummer cows. Also I sorted off the butcher steer. Bob and Shadow were good help. Here’s some pictures.

12/3/10

Huh, I forgot to update the blog yesterday. The satellite guy came and brought a new receiver so we can receive high def TV. I was impressed. Really makes a difference. And he programmed the remotes so they work on both TV’s. Cool. But we lost all the programs we had recorded. Mostly shows for the grand kids. Oh well, I will just have to watch and record any ones I see. It’s not like they don’t play them over and over.

I did manage to work on a saddle a bit and get my chores done. And last night was the first performance of the NFR. I am recording all of them so I might re watch the saddle bronc riding at lunch. Yeah, that’s a good plan!

12-1-10

Nice day out there. Harnessed and hooked up the team and fed calves. Saddle horses was standing there at the corral so I caught Pilgrim and rode up west and changed some gates so the horses can go north and I can turn the calves east if I want to. Checked the bean for the cows and they are finding enough green grass under the snow that they ain’t too interested in it. Wren and Rill were standing at the corrals when I got back so I kept them in so they can see what being a draft horse is all about. Now on to leather work.

Tuesday Nov 30, 10

This ol’ month is about shot.

Lite breeze coming out of the northwest this morning that is slowly dying down. Got some small drifts out there but not too hard.Sun is shining bright and last I looked it was about 20 out there.

Called in the team and harnessed them up after trimming their bridle paths and spot for the collars. Hauled part of a bale out in the trap for the calves. Got some leather waiting for me to work on it.

Built a new top for the bar yesterday afternoon. Used three 2×10’s. When I smoothed them up, I sure made a mess of fine sawdust Cindy and I had to mop  and sweep up. Fr Tyler is headed this way and Gramma has a roast in the oven.