Got the calves all sold yesterday. Well, the ones we hauled down. I kept the paints and a couple small ones and a couple heifers for Tate and Kass.

Calves weighed less than last year and brought more per pound so penciled out better.

My clutch went out after we got there and got the calves unloaded. Great timing is everything. And the Lord is looking after us.

Got a loaner from the dealership and they will look at it Monday and hopefully fix it at not to high a cost. I knew the clutch or at least the shifter was getting week and had planned to get it worked on after we shipped. Just hadn’t planned on doing it quite so quick after we shipped!

We kept the cows in yesterday and last night and we are going to go preg here in a bit.

Cool this morning but not bad for October!

Chance and Hope and boys got here yesterday evening. It is fun to have little kids in the house in the morning. Noisy, but fun! 🙂

We will go move some cows around today so they will be closer to gather and sort the calves off to go to the sale.

Sounds like it’s going cool off this weekend and i read murmurings of winter! Horrors!

I haven’t been doing anything to exciting. Picked up Cindy on the way down to Custer to see the kids and do a little fishing, on Sunday, with no luck.

Moved some cattle around on Monday.

Helped a neighbor ship their calves yesterday. Then Tyler came out and we looked for a turkey for him to shoot, with no luck. Then we killed a bunch of trap. He is supposed to go pheasant hunting this weekend. We are shipping our calves this weekend.

Sure has been nice weather but I think we had a frost last night. Not sure yet as it’s still dark. I transplanted 3 pepper plants and three tomato plants and brought them in the house and set them in front of the picture window. Hopefully they will all do well.

Shipping yearlings home today. I rode out yesterday and moved them a little closer to the buildings. Rained last night and supposed to rain a little more this morning. About .40 hundreds according to the weather on the interweb. Wind will blow, of course. Ahh, shipping time!

Got the pasture calves shipped. I messed up. We had decided to do them on Sunday but I got it mixed up. When we had them in and sorted I called the guy and asked if that was the right day and he said, no it wasn’t, but it would actually work better. So they came and got them and I got a bunch of bawling cows.

I will kick them out today and go start looking for a couple yearlings and setting gates so it’s handy to gather and ship the yearlings on Saturday.

Gee, maybe I better go check that Saturday is the right day! 🙂

 

By the way, if you are on Facebook, go check out the cute video I posted of Gus playing  his guitar and singing along.

Chance and Hope and boys were home this weekend. We shipped some steers on Saturday and just rode a little on Sunday. Cindy and I went to a party for the people she works with, on Saturday afternoon and evening. First time I ever ate Walleye. Not bad. Still tastes like fish tho’, but not real strong. We had a good time. It was fun to get to see Gus and Sam again too.

We are shipping some pastured calves on Wednesday and the rest of the yearlings on Saturday. Then our calves go the following week on Saturday.

Rode down in the grazing association today and helped gather and sort cattle.

Here’s some pictures. Remember to click on them to embigintate! 🙂

Jeffro, when you drop down into the Cheyenne at Bridger, you are just down stream from these pictures, a couple miles.

Worked on  re-building a fence yesterday. Got up in the 80’s so maybe wasn’t the best day. But I got it done. Scott Vance came down and looked at the steers that were summered here. We found a dead one. There was one who just had been a dink all summer and I think it was him, as this isn’t a very big steer. I need to go catch a horse and ride and look around at cattle.

Chance and I were going to sell calves on the 5th, but we’ve decided to wait a couple weeks as they haven’t really got the corn harvest started too much and we think when they do, the prices on corn will come down and calf prices will go up. Hopefully that is good thinking. And if we wait a couple weeks the calves will be a little heavier as there is plenty of feed.

Calm yesterday, but windy today.

Today is Tate’s birthday. Don’t seem like it was just 28 years ago today. I do remember that he made us lose some sleep even at that early of an age, as he was born early in the morning.

Kelvin flew home on Saturday. I will miss him around here. But he left some stuff, so I know he is coming back!

Had a great time at Hot Springs this weekend. Andy Nelson was the MC and Chuck Larsen from Saratoga and the Waggoners from up by Bowman were the other entertainers. Sure was a good show. Two weeks it will be Valentine and also Alzada. We have a party to go to on Saturday night so won’t make it to either one.

Weather is warm and windy. Looks like it will stay that way for a spell. Ought to put all the rain to work helping to green up the grass.

Rain. About an inch.

Kelvin and I and Rick drove over to Sheridan yesterday and then up to Custer’s Last Stand and then home on 212. Kelvin had never seen the monument. We didn’t stay very long but got to check some of it out. Great day and lots of pretty country.

Tomorrow we head down to Hot Springs for the poetry gathering this Friday/Saturday. Kelvin flies out on Saturday. It’s gonna be real quiet around here with out him here. I will miss my friend. He’s had a good visit and will be back in the future. I can’t wait!