Wind has slowly been going down. Got out there this morning and finally got the bale unroller mounted on the tractor (no, we couldn’t do that in good weather. Why that would just make way to much sense) We had to re-work the hydrolics so iot would work. Dug around and got a bale on the back and headed up west while Chance rode up there to look around. Couldn’t cross the creek so came back and went another way and dropped the rear tire off the edge of the crossing. So here I set and wait for a neighbor to come help me get it out. All the livestock seems to have come thru’ in good shape from what we can see so far.

Thanks all for your thoughts and prayers.

I hear we got about 2 feet of snow. Big drifts, lots of them and where it blew the snow mostly free it’s a crusted over ice, but the cattle were trying to paw thru it. Horses had gnawed quite a bit of wood waiting in the corral.

All in all, we are very lucky, seems to me. Thanks Lord. 🙂

UPDATE- 4 pm. Just came in the house. Dean and Brad came and we finally got the tractor out! Hauled a couple bales to the cow/calf pairs and horses. Yearling’s get hay in the morning! It’s great to live in a country where you got good neighbors! Thanks Dean and Brad!

Seems like spring. Wet snow, and lots of wind. 40 to 45 mph with gusts much higher. Anywhere from 6 to 16 inches of snow. Nothing I can do for the stock. They are all in protection, but I am afraid they will blow out. Supposed to let off slightly tonight so in the early morning, (daylight)  we will be out and about and see what we can see. Winds are supposed to slowly die down thru’ the day tomorrow.

We lost power about 10 last night but we got it back about noon today! Yayyyy

! Thank you Grand Electric Power crews. Your the best!

Pray for us and all the creatures out in this, please.

Yup, we as Americans have proven that we can have a new leader without bloodshed. Some of us are happy with the results, some of are not. Life goes on and we can hope and pray that we as a country are heading in the right direction. When you sail a ship, they tell me you must go back and forth against the wind and “tac” to get where you are going. I guess we just took a correction against the winds of change. At some time we will decide when it’s time to take another.

One thing we can take pride in is that we have proven Martin Luther King Jr’s words and have got to the point where we judge a person by the content of their character instead of the color of their skin. So we will never have to worry about anyone of color being bothered by that again!

We can stop all those programs that give anyone an advantage because of race. That is a big step for this country!

We had some open cows as I knew we would. Puzzling too understand why the ones who are open are that way. I had 3 out of my little bunch that were all young enough and in good enough shape that I would have thought they would have been bred right up. Oh well, they all gave me heifer calves to replace themselves.

We have a winter storm coming in it sounds like so I was out a little after daylight riding and getting pairs where they need to be. I will go out after bit and give them some hay and also the yearlings up the creek, tho’ they really don’t need any yet. Maybe it will not get as bad as they are predicting. Kind of like the election. It might not be as good or bad as some thought!

No not election day, we are preg checking the cows to see which ones have calves in their bellies and which ones don’t. It’s good info to know.

We will go over and vote later. Kind of sad that our little state doesn’t have a lot of say in the big scheme of things, tho’ if it;s a tight race it can.

One thing about this country, who ever wins we need to just go on with life. Anyone who can’t win with a smile or lose with a smile is a spoiled rotten child and should be treated as such.

Many have thought Pres. Bush knew much more than many others believed possible.  This info should have been widespread after the yellowcake was transported to Canada.  Not from a Bush-hating Press however.

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On July 5, 2008 , the Associated Press (AP) released a story titled: Secret
U.S. mission hauls uranium from Iraq . The opening paragraph is as follows:

The last major remnant of Saddam Hussein’s nuclear program (a huge
stockpile of concentrated natural uranium) reached a Canadian port Saturday
to complete a secret U.S. operation that included a two-week airlift from
Baghdad and a ship voyage crossing two oceans.

See anything wrong with this picture?

We have been hearing from the far left for more than five years how Bush
lied. Somehow, that slogan loses its credibility now that 550 metric tons
of Saddam’s yellowcake, used for nuclear weapon enrichment, has been
discovered and shipped to Canada for its new use as nuclear energy.

It appears that American troops found the 550 metric tons of uranium in
2003 after invading Iraq . They had to sit on this information and the
uranium itself for fear of terrorists attempting to steal it. It was
guarded and kept safe by our military in a 23,000-acre site with large sand
beams surrounding the site.

This is vindication for the Bush administration, having been attacked
mercilessly by the liberal media and the far-left pundits on the
blogo-sphere. Now that it is proven that President Bush did not lie about
Saddam’s nuclear ambitions, one would think that the mainstream media would
report the true story. Once the AP released the story, the mainstream media
should have picked it up and broadcast it worldwide.

That never happened, due in large part, I believe, to the fact that the
mainstream media would have to admit they were wrong about Bush’s war
motives all along. Thankfully, the AP got it right when it said, “The
removal of 550 metric tons of yellowcake, the seed material for higher-grade
nuclear enrichment, was a significant step toward closing the books on
Saddam’s nuclear legacy.”

Closing the book on Saddam’s nuclear legacy? Did Saddam have a nuclear
legacy after all? I thought Bush lied? As it turns out, the people who
lied were Joe Wilson and his wife.

Valerie Plame engaged in a clear case of nepotism and convinced the CIA
to send her husband on a fact finding mission in February 2002, seeking to
determine if Saddam Hussein attempted to buy yellowcake from Niger . The CIA
and British intelligence believed Saddam contacted Niger for that purpose
but needed proof.

During his trip to Niger , Wilson actually interviewed the former prime
minister of Niger , Ibrahim Assane Mayaki. Mayaki told Wilson that in June
of 1999, an Iraqi delegation expressed interest in “expanding commercial
relations” for the purposes of purchasing yellowcake.

Wilson chose to overlook Mahaki’s remarks and reported to the CIA that
there was no evidence of Hussein wanting to purchase yellow cake from Niger .

However, with British intelligence insisting the claim was true,
President Bush used that same claim in his State of the Union address in
January of 2003. Outraged by Bush’s insistence that the claim was true,
Wilson wrote an op-ed in the New York Times in the summer of 2003 slamming
Bush.

Wilson did this in spite of the fact that Mayaki said Saddam did try to
buy the yellowcake from Niger . The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
disagreed with Wilson and supported Mayaki’s claim. This meant nothing to
Wilson who was opposed to the Iraq war and thus had ulterior motives in
covering up the prime minister’s statements.

It was a simple tactic, really. If the far-left and their friends in the
media could prove Bush lied about Hussein wanting to purchase yellowcake
from Niger , it would undermine President Bush’s credibility and give them
more cause for asking what other lies he may have told.

Yet the real lie came from Wilson, who interpreted his own meaning from
the prime minister’s statements and concluded all by himself that the claim
of Saddam attempting to purchase yellowcake was “unequivocally wrong.”
Curiously the CIA sat on this information and did not inform the CIA
Director, who sided with Bush on the yellowcake claim. This was made public
in a bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee report in July 2004.

Valerie Plame also engaged in her own lie campaign by spreading the
notion that the Bush Administration outed her as a CIA agent. Never mind
that it was Richard Armitage – no friend of the Bush administration – who
leaked Plame’s identity to the press. Never mind that Plame had not been in
the field as a CIA agent in some six years.

The truth is, due to their opposition to the war, Joe Wilson, Valerie
Plame, the mainstream media, and their left-wing friends on the blogo-sphere
engaged in a propaganda campaign to undermine the Bush administration. Now
that Saddam’s uranium has been made public and is no longer a threat to the
world, do you think these aforementioned parties will apologize and admit
they were wrong?

Don’t count on it.

The rest of the American people should hear the truth about Saddam’s
uranium. It is up to you and me to inform them.

As far as the anti-war crowd is concerned, the next time they say that
Bush lied, we should tell them to “have the yellowcake and eat it too.”

For verification of this information, click on this link:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334/ <http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25546334/&gt;

the work and the life I live leave a lot to be desired.

When it’s 20 to 40 below zero and I have to go out and feed and care for livestock, tho’ I feel like I really did some good and helped some of God’s creatures, it just ain’t a lot of fun! Granted, I haven’t had to face much cold or snow for quite a few years now.

Putting down my old horses who will suffer from the cold is another job that I am glad I am able to do, but sure isn’t any fun. But I console myself that I am doing them a favor and that it helps remind me of the sanctity of life. I hate to see anything suffer, animals especially, so I tend to help along any suffering creature I come across.

But then there are days like yesterday. November 2nd and warm. 60’s, light to moderate breeze (anyone not living in these parts would call it a wind, but around here we don’t call it a wind until it raises the chain off the ground on our wind gauges. If you don’t understand about that, let me know and I will explain our wind gauges) and sun shiny skies. Good neighbors and friends and a bunch of calves that needed worked.

We headed and heeled the calves to lay them down for their shots and wormer. What a great day! We had good roast beef sandwiches when we got the cattle gathered. A cute little red haired girl of 2 years old to entertain us all and just a greaqt time.

Sometimes I wonder what the poe folks is doing! 🙂

Not real scary, but cute!

Go read it!

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