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80 some degrees today.Not bad for the first of August! Mares and fillies were in close to the corral so I suckered them in and worked with the yearling fillies this morning and with a 4 year old, a 2 year old and combed the rats nests out of Jam’s mane. Chance came this eveningContinue reading “Aug 1, 09”

The boys were playing in their kitchen yesterday late afternoon. Evidently Gus got the door to the cook stoke open and jumped on it, tipping it over on himself and Sam. Sam had a bruise and didn’t want to use his arm, so the kids took him to the doc last night, while Gus stayedContinue reading “Dog gone it!”

Rained last night. Ought to help keep the grass going for awhile. Looks like maybe a half inch or so. Went out to get a bull in yesterday afternoon. I rode Pilgrim, my 4 year old. We didn’t gt him. He was on a twisty, muddy creek and used it to his advantage. I finallyContinue reading “Wednesday 7/ 29”

When I ran to Belle the other day and got stuff to fix my water problem down south,I got 4 inch pipe and elbows. Chance and I went down yesterday to fix it and I realized that I should have gotten 3 inch. Senility is a bitch! So I stole Cindy’s car this morning andContinue reading “Monday July 27”

Check this out. Thanks Og for the heads up. http://mo-k-musings.livejournal.com/386506.html Chance and I rode young horses down south thru’ the neighbors, looking for lost yearling’s or a bull. Found neither. He rode a new horse we just got back from a kid. I had seen this horse at a friends and he mentioned that heContinue reading “Saturday July 25”

How do you decide who is and isn’t a friend? How do we establish the parameters? I met a lady some years back who contacted me to build a saddle to fit her horses back, that was having some trouble. I hate it when any of God’s creature suffer and when horses do, they usuallyContinue reading “Friends”

Rick ( a good neighbor and lifelong friend) came and helped me and Chance bring the heifer bunch in and sort out pairs and yearling’s and the bulls off. The owner will come tomorrow and get the bulls. All but a couple, we will keep with our cows. We then pay him lease and takeContinue reading “Moving and sorting”

We went on our annual golf/tripping day. We go to Deadwood for the beginnings of th Days of 76 rodeo and watch the single steer roping. Then we go and play 9 holes of golf. The group varies from year to year, but about anyone who wants in is welcome. We have a mix ofContinue reading “Ropin and golf”

I took off the other afternoon and drove down south east of here to look at a buddies ranch. I spent the night and then after looking it over the next morning, took off and came home. He had hay to put up. And threatened to put me on a tractor! Yesterday I hauled aContinue reading “This and that”