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Feeding in the snow and blowing and cold with a tractor with no cab reminded me of this poem. It’s an oldie but a goody! Hope you like it! I wrote it back in 1993 at Christmas time. It’s all true. The Gift It had been bitter cold, for three long days The wind blewContinue reading “Your second gift”

And here is my gift to you. Only one of many, go and read this, right now! It is wonderful and someday will hopefully be a small part of a greater book! From my friend Jim, probably one of the greatest writers of our time, in my view! http://werdfu.blogspot.com/2009/12/greetings-from-north-pole-part-vii_25.html

Blowing good out there with gusts up to 40 mph. Here’s some pictures from today. I went up west with the tractor and got two old bales and hauled them home and the cows followed me just like I planned. We were without power from 12:30 pm until a while ago. I had the generatorContinue reading “Still Wintry”

Southeast breeze blowing and they are always cold. I hauled a bale out to the calves and unrolled part of it with the re-built bale unroller yesterday. Seemed to work great. I unloaded the left over part of it at the corral for the colts and team or who ever is in the corral. SoundsContinue reading “Wintry!”

I got Gramma to go along with me to feed calves with the team yesterday. We even drove up the crick and looked at the bean to see if I needed to take more up. Worked on my bob sled and some leather too. For supper I made tortilla’s (smiling country’s recipe) and Cindy madeContinue reading “12/22/09”

First off, this will be a rough look and just hit averages as to my opinion. Land in my area recently sold for a high of $560 an acre. This land will take about 20 acres to run a cow/calf pair for a year, tho’ maybe with these newer larger cows, it might take aContinue reading “Ranch economics”

I was just over at Linda’s blog and there was a comment about cost and expense and income of a rancher. Would anyone be interested in a rough over view of that, for this area? Also, I went to Punkin Center today for a part and some other doo dads and ran onto our stateContinue reading “A question for my readers”

Another nice day. The wind hardly blew. I wish I had burned my dump. Sounds like we got some snow coming next week. So far we are still pretty white. The snow hasn’t melted and crusted too much so the cows can still graze. My big tank at the corral has been running over andContinue reading “12/19/09”

While visiting with a man who was born and raised in Poland and who’s parents still live there, he mentioned that his father was in the hospital for the last 3 weeks with pneumonia. This brought up socialized medicine, as our country is trying so hard to get, evidently. You remember Poland. The country whoContinue reading “How’s that?”

A friend and neighbor has been on trial and I just read that he won! It’s nice to know that justice can prevail! Chance and I shot and dressed a big steer this morning and hauled him to Newell to the butcher. We ate a bite after dropping him off and then stopped back atContinue reading “Great news!”