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Cows…. Tate and I each got a few.. sale was real good. There were a couple of dispersions and the cows went for over 3000 a head… younger cows, but I’d hate to pay it…. There was a nice sized group at the funeral. It was of Cindy’s step father, I guess you’d say, thoContinue reading “More”

The cows. We sat and watched a sale over the internet on Saturday and Tate, Chance and I all got some cows bought, so today we drove up to the sale barn, used their chute and branded them… one of Chances jumped a tall fence and got out so we told them to run herContinue reading “Got ’em….”

But just a breeze so it didn’t seem so bad… Gus spent the day with me, he is still recovering from pneumonia and is’t quite 100%… we went out and strung the cows out with a couple bales, so they’d go back where the grass is, or at least the new ones.. then the horsesContinue reading “Cold”

And a cold one to boot. 10 degree’s here today.. got 4 to 6 inches of snow on the ground, roads weren’t real pretty but we got the calves shipped.. lots of bawling cows in the corral.. calves looked good, weighed good and sold good, hard to find anything to complain about! Now, we willContinue reading “Shippin’ time!”

Fog rolled in yesterday evening and a little drizzle and snow and wind this morning.. we went and lured all the cows and calves in close with a tractor and a bale of hay… they came on the run… we have everything close and be handier to ship in the cold tomorrow, if the weatherContinue reading “Weather change”

Got all the pasture cattle loaded and hauled off today and we also hauled a couple of Tate’s cows and calve who were fence crawler…  now…. get the calves shipped on tuesday, preg on wednesday, sell the opens and go to buying bred cows… somewhere in there we need to get an old track hoeContinue reading “Done”

I’ve been building a new bale wagon for my team, while cutting off an i beam yesterday I let the cut off part drop onto my foot… I was sure it was out of the way… but I was wrong! Chance had some business to do in town so I decided to get an xContinue reading “Ouch”

At least interesting to write about.. just doing fall work stuff.. we will ship calves in a couple weeks.. may go help move some cattle for a neighbor tomorrow. Wind is howling and supposed to continue thru’ tomorrow evening and not real warm.. guess I will just have to put my wooly chaps on! BeenContinue reading “Nothin’”

Haven’t posted for awhile.. haven’t been doing too much exciting.. went and helped Q ship calves yesterday.. sure were nice looking.. had a nice visit with his brother Allen who I only get to see once or twice a year.. working on leather and a new bale wagon and odds and ends.. real warm yesterday,Continue reading “Fall work”

Got the horses in yesterday morning, caught up Wren and Rill and took them to the Amish out west of here.. the guy was not at home so I just left them, he called yesterday evening to discuss what they had already done and what I wanted done with them.. he’ll call me back inContinue reading “Runnin’”