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On Friday night, Cindy and Gus and I decided to make a quick trip to Medora, for the annual poetry gathering. So we got up and ate a quick breakfast on Saturday morning and were out of the house  before 7 am. I set up in the saddle and nudged White Lightning (Cindy’s little FordContinue reading “Medora”

Went out this evening and played catch with a grand daughter. Man, I am old and out of shape! Green grass is popping. Brandings are underway across my country. We got a fresh born foal the other day. We weren’t really expecting it, but that’s what happens when young stallions run with mares! And thatContinue reading “Spring has sprung!”

Still building on the chute and corrals. We got some continuous fence put in where old planks had broke and rotted off. Looks good. I used to make all my corral fences like a windbreak, but then cussed the drifted snow in the corrals. So now I make them fairly open. They stiff drift inContinue reading “Spring works”

We are in the undertaking of rebuilding our old loading chute. It was originally built by my father and then repaired and added on to over the years. It has gotten a little scary to use,  tho’ one of the owners of cattle we summered last year, told me not to change a thing asContinue reading “Whew!”

Yup, we had one! Sure didn’t get as bad as it looked like it could’ve. I think we got almost a foot of snow. Kind of hard to tell when the wind drifts it. Probably one of the easiest ones I have been thru’. A large part of that is because I didn’t have aContinue reading “Blizzard?”

Awhile back the locals had a fund raiser for Chance, the son who broke both wrists and then his house burnt down. A fine young lady from Belle Fourche, Naomi Bennett ,donated a custom made, 100 % pure beaver fur hat, to be auctioned off, that she makes at her business, Put A Lid OnContinue reading “New Hat”

On Tuesday last, my bride and I made a flying trip to Billings, almost on a whim. That is where I get all my leather for saddles and chaps from, mostly. I do have a couple neighbors who usually have some chap leather on hand and I can run up to their house and buyContinue reading “Road Trip”

Here is an old memory. We had been calving and were kicking some pairs out of the calving lot. There was about a foot of crusted snow on the ground. Dad had been feeding with the tractor and I was along to open and watch gates. My older brother was on a horse. I wasContinue reading “Daring do!”

Last summer, we had a young man from a large city come and stay with us for a month. He was 16 and had never evidently done anything much of a physical sort. 16 and a half, as he was quick to tell you. And also he told everyone we came across his name andContinue reading “Problem people”

I was hoping we were done with below zero temps. One thing about this area, if you don’t like the weather, stick around awhile, it will probably change!  I fed more hay than I wanted to so far this winter. And don’t tell me spring is almost here. By the calendar it is, but IContinue reading “Brrrr!”