Category Archives: Uncategorized

To ashes, dust to dust… today is Ash Wednesday, the first day of Lent leading to Easter Sunday… some non Catholics have asked me what this is all about.. well for me, it’s a time of renewal… a time to remember that “from ashes and dust you came, to ashes and dust you will return”…Continue reading “Ashes”

Cold spell has seemed to pass, not real warm yet, but headed that way if you can believe the weather report.. I don’t put a lot of faith in them… been feeding with the team , looking for a different tractor and spending lots of time on the phone in search of said tractor orContinue reading “Things are looking up”

March came in like a lion… or a crabby polar bear!  Cold, below zero, snow, about 4 inches and more coming now, big ol’ flakes, and a little breeze this morning, but nothing like the wind yesterday… we got everything fed good and just come in the house. even got the old 756 to startContinue reading “Growwwwwllllll”

Colder, windy and snow… got the cows fed this morning and didn’t even have to plug in the team! Addy Bear is spending the day with us and we got the boys at bus time, now Gramma is making home made pizza, I been working on some wooly chaps and some new stirrup leathers forContinue reading “More of the same”

Colder, snow and the wind is picking up this morning…. decided to feed with the tractor that Chance and Ryan got running as I wanted to feed some of these straw bales and you can’t hardly unroll them have to just spread them out with the bucket.. got up the creek, down to the l;astContinue reading “Humph!”

Has changed a bit, colder, some snow, some wind, which I guess is normal.. I got right out and got the cows fed yesterday and then Delbert picked me up and we went up north and looked at a couple dogs…a male and a female, both young but started.. ended up, he took the femaleContinue reading “Weather”

At least for February around here… 40’s in the day, gettiong some wind, but that cuts the ice,,, it’s got Indian Creek running, forded it yesterday and today while feeding, it hasn’t washed any crossings out so far… stays like this it probably won’t.. Paul came down yesterday and got started on his saddle.. wishContinue reading “Nice weather”

Frosty out this morning… stiff breeze this morning and colder…got the cows fed and they and my team and the other horses all acted silly… wondered what was going on, well, this evening,Cindy called and asked me what the weather was doing so i went and looked and we had some snow falling, she saidContinue reading “Seems like spring”

When we went up to feed this morningg (Chance rode along) he noticed a cow trying to calve… she wasn’t real concerned acting, so when we got the bale unrolled we doubled back. Sure enough, it was one he’d bought with the head of a calf sticking out. Wayyyy too early. So after lunch IContinue reading “Uh oh…”

What a gorgeous day! Warm, not hardly a breeze and the sun shining… well at least it was when I went out to feed.. I checked the weather and saw it was going to be warmest a little after noon, so didn’t get in any hurry hitching up.  Putted around and did stuff in theContinue reading “Wow!”