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Rain gauge shows an inch and ten hundreds.When the sun comes out and warms things up, this ol’ grass ought to really go to town. The cool season grasses have really been growing, but the warm season ones haven’t had much chance to show their stuff yet. Oh well, it will come in time. TateContinue reading “Cloudy and cool”

50 hundreds when we went out and fed the calf this morning. Look at my new colt guy! Gabe rode Beaver when we went out and looked at cattle this morning, so we saddled up Crackerjack in the afternoon and he put the first “ride” on him. He got along fine.

We ended up with .60 hundreds of rain. If we’d get that much every week, we sure would have a good year. Wish I could send some to all those who need it. Gabe is staying with us for a fgew days while his Mom is off going to a graduation  of a nephew, soContinue reading “6/5/09”

Getting a nice rain as I type this. A buddy came up Sunday evening and we sorted and moved yearling’s on Monday, then loaded up and went to another friends about 50 miles from here. Set up his tepee and unrolled our bedrolls and spent the night and got up, gathered and branded a bunchContinue reading “Rain”

Branding, that is. Started in pretty good season but it was 7:30 when we got done. Just a lot of fiddling around here and there. One of them days. Got a small one tomorrow.

Another good one. When we got home Cindy wanted to go up and look at the mares as she said we had another foal. So we did and Suzy had a colt. So two fillies and a colt. I guess I can live with that. Too bad I didn’t want all these future broodmares! HeresContinue reading “Another branding”

Counting ours, which I shouldn’t. We were supposed to brand yesterday down in the breaks but we got a rain Saturday night so they pushed it back to Friday, if we can find enough help. They always ask me to find the crew and I am still short a couple of people. Too many differentContinue reading “12th branding”

Memorial Day My Great Grandpa fought in the Civil War Entered when he was 17 years old He fought on the side of the North He didn’t think folks should be bought or sold Grampa raised a family on a homestead Raised food during the First World War Never had to fight in the trenchesContinue reading “Memorial day”

Got it done. From the sounds of it, I thought we would get rained out. All the kids were here. Even Tyler, tho’ he pulled in late. Better late than never!

And it was a good’un! When I cam home I fed the calf and then rode up north and moved the steers and doctored a couple yearling’s. Need to sort some heifers out of the steers and steers out of the heifers. Kids are coming on Sunday and we will brand our little bunch. ThenContinue reading “Another branding”