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Got 3 today and one was a cow we had and bred/..  the rest been bought cows…I have been checking for awhile.. kind of nice to see some calves fro my effort! Real warm weather… 70′ s I suppose.. supposed to cool off a little but nothing to drastic.. cloud and chance of rain., I’llContinue reading “Calvin’”

Warmer, in the 50’s  and supposed to keep warming… Mass schedule switched to Sunday morning at 10 and we had a house full.. Got another calf yesterday out of a cow Tate bought… Chance ear marked it and said she is a real good mama! That’s okay, coyotes won’t be a problem then… wind isContinue reading “Spring weather”

We have sunshine and warmer weather.. mud and springtime weather… oh, I am plumb happy about it, but after all the whining I have been hearing about how hard of a winter it’s been.. I just hope your all happy! 😉

But not much of one… Wind started blowing pretty hard Sunday evening and snow started a bit before 7 Monday morning.. didn’t get a lot, maybe 4 inches, but how can you tell when the wind blew like it did.. never got real bad, no calves… Chance and I sorted off 4 and put themContinue reading “Blizzard”

Supposed to get up to 60 by this afternoon, then cooler and snow and wind coming tomorrow afternoon, night… wheee, spring on the Northern Plains… Tate and the girls came out this morning and he helped me run the cows in and we sprayed them with wormer and lice control… ran out of the wormerContinue reading “Warm…”

Same old…. warmer weather then it cools off, get a little snow and then it melts off… most of the neighbors are calving, we are the only ones not… and that is a bit odd… the boys bought some cows that were supposed to start in March, so it was claimed and doesn’t necessarily meanContinue reading “Same old….”

Friday evening Cindy and I ran into Sturgis for a birthday [party for Gus who turned 7 on Saturday.. Saturday morning we ran back into Sturgis to watch Gabe wrestle at Districts. two very hard matches which he lost on both, but he sure worked hard at it, the second one he lost in overtime…Continue reading “Running…”

Windy, but warmer..up in the 50’s anyway… just came in from feeding cows.. been switching them over to evening feeding for calving.. lots of mud, mud, mud! Sure gives the team a good work out, slopping thru’ it.. worked on some leather today also..a pair of angora chaps, they are a lot of fussing…

I added a new page to the top of this blog, go check it out, newest saddles and leather work… old page was getting big and took a long time to load, so this is where I will be adding any new saddles or leather items I build… got several on order, need to getContinue reading “A new page”

The rural schools had their Oration contest today and the music teacher asked me to come over after and do some poetry and music and work with the young kids learning guitar.. it was fun for me at least, hope they learned something…  Paul was down yesterday afternoon and got more done on his saddle.Continue reading “Music”