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Spring is the season of life, but it is also the season of death..not all that are born make it…but the majority do. While feeding with the tractor this evening, Jack, Chances dog, ran under the front wheel of the tractor. I hauled him to the kennel, hoping maybe he’d be alright… he wasn’t.. soContinue reading “Life…. and death”

so far… got some more snow, but the wind hasn’t blown real bad… doesn’t look like we had any thing in the night while Chance and Hope checked on them…Cindy went in yesterday afternoon so she wouldn’t be snowed out of her work… maybe she should have waited until this morning, tho’ I haven’t heardContinue reading “Not too bad”

for the next blow coming in… as well as we can… doesn’t look like it will get too tuff until tomorrow sometime…we have the pairs in the tree patch and the drop bunch in the hog pasture, so I guess we are set for the evening… no calves so far today so I suppose weContinue reading “Hatches are battened..”

this morning. chance brought a new baby and his first calf heifer mother into the shed about 3:30… when i went out at 5 he was sucking. I found another heifer starting to calve so brought her in and put her in the other shed so as to not bother the other cow/calf…so far, notContinue reading “Chilly”

We had wind yesterday, but not real cold… but seeing as it was supposed to snow and/or rain, we kept the cows in close. No rain or snow to speak of. I check before dark and at 11 pm… nothing. Chance and Hope were checking in the night and i got up at 5:30 andContinue reading “Hmmmm…”

Went out to check cows a bit after 6 this morning and found a heifer who was calving and nothing showing. So I drove up and told Chance to get the corrals and shed ready for her and saddled up Mijo and rode out and drove her in slow. we got her caught and tiedContinue reading “Dang…”

Went out and fed a bale to the cows…seems like they appreciated it…no calves yet today as I write this at 4 pm…I went out about an hour ago, fed them another bale and a half,. fed some to the horses in the corral and outside, swapped out horses for tonight…I fed one of theContinue reading “Storm… continued”

Supposed to be coming in…. maybe a foot of snow and winds to 35 mph…we have some light drizzle, the ground is wet and the grass is short but green. As long as it’s wet and amounts to some moisture I sure ain’t going to complain…Cindy rode along and we lured the cows into theContinue reading “Storm”

Hope gave me a ride in to town the other day and i brought the car home that Chance had been using while getting is pickup’s fixed. Then she gave me a ride in on Saturday so i could meet up with Cindy and we went to Rapid so we could set up and doContinue reading “Runnin’”