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Looks like we got about 2 or 2 and a half inches of moisture out of this last storm.. good chance for more all thru’ the week and into the weekend… We had a wild night Sunday night… Tyler and I went and checked at 10 and found a cow having a backwards calf, soContinue reading “Moisture”

Boys checked cattle in the night, I got up at daylight and went out, every thing seemed ok, for what we have.. about 6 to 8 inches of snow and some wind out of the north.. I thought the wind was supposed to pick up even worse as the day went along so i tookContinue reading “Snow”

Last week we got some rain.. we were at a branding and got the first bunch done, but didn’t do the second bunch… then the next day we had to wait until afternoon to do another ranch, the next day or so.. we had good weather yesterday, so we did the ranch that was scheduledContinue reading “Spring in South Dakota”

Thursday Cindy had a doctors appointment and we had an appointment with the lawyer to finish up our wills, so Chance was going to take me in and meet Cindy, as he had an appointment to drop his pickup off for some work… we planned to leave about 11 am… Chance had a heifer calvingContinue reading “Hmmmm”

Got up to 70 or so today, I suppose, not hardly a breeze.. Boys and I kicked a bunch of pairs into the next pasture and kicked the first calf heifer pairs out… I fed and then took the big forklift and hauled rocks.. almost tipped it over on it’s side.. Molly was riding withContinue reading “Real nice”

Cindy qwoke me up at 4 to let me know we had no water… I went down and threw the breaker on the pump and there was a snap… that’s when I looked at it and the pump and the pressure tank were leaning over, all broke off from the water lines…. hmmm.. not sureContinue reading “Oh, fun!”

Chance and I went and kicked a bunch of pairs north into the next pasture.. brought home a cow of Tates who’s stoopid and never knows where her calf is.. not sure what the deal is this time, but we got some milk out of her, brought the calf in and fed a little toContinue reading “Same old same old”

We get some calves, we kick some pairs out, we kick some pairs across there road, we get some calves, we kick some pairs out…… etc…. oh, yeah, and the wind blows! 😀 I did sneak off on Sunday and ran down to Hill City for a jam session… had fun, heard some new stuff,Continue reading “Spring routine”

Went and checked cows this morning then drove to Sturgis andy took Cindy to an appointment.. I dropped my glasses off to get repaired from the last wreck they got into then sat and read until she was done.,  we hurried over to another appointment we had then picked up my glasses and got someContinue reading “Another day…”

I rode out this morning in the wind to see if I could kick some pairs out of the drop bunch or maybe some across the road that we kicked out yesterday.. I rode up west and set my gates and there they were!  5 pairs laying and chewing their cud just wanting to crossContinue reading “The best laid plans…”