The wind is starting to calm down this evening but it is below freezing, oh well, as long as that wind calms down things are pretty good outside as far as work goes. The seasons change and so do we. As I write the cattle let out an occasional beller out back of [...]
Monday evening and the wind is howling outside, temperature is plummeting fast and tomorrows supposed to be a cold one. But today was one of the most beautiful days this October around here before the wind switched in late afternoon. But that’s history. I was going to post last evening but we went [...]
The week is ending and it was good! Now at least if we’d be hit with a blizzard it wouldn’t be a disaster. And I’ve seen big snows this time of the year, the last one being in “91†I believe. That one dumped about three feet of snow here and I remember [...]
The last cows are now officially home with their calves plus the steers for butchering have arrived back home today also. The field by my house is crowded with cattle, cows and calves and bulls, they are still all together so it’s a pretty sizable herd a hundred feet away from the house. [...]
I was reading over at the Kansas Milkmaid blog a bit ago about their small town or should I say rural church and that got me to thinking. That is my favorite subject in the world to write about, but I hold back so I don’t overload the old blog with to much [...]
Day time consists of cattle work, moving more cows home, mounting gates and getting ready to catch some steers for sale and butchering. Four out of five cowherds are home now, one more to go and next comes weaning time. Music to my ears and to all the neighborhood for as far as [...]
I have a rule to never blog when I’m really tired or down or stuff like that. But rules are made to be broken and I always break my own rules anyhow so what the heck. Not like it’s the first time. But blogging is getting harder and harder as time goes [...]
There! An evening when I’m not busy or dead tired, a rare event around here. It’s been so busy around here trying to get things under control, the weather hammering away for three days straight last week, wind roaring, snow flying, you name it, but it’s done, or at least that one [...]
Looks like a cold winter coming, can tell by the signs. I haven’t seen any wooly bear caterpillars yet so can’t tell from that, and I never checked the sizes of the muskrat or beaver houses, so I can’t tell from that. But one sure fire way to tell is when the [...]
Moving hay home, that time of the year again. Gotta get it home in case we ever have a winter like the “old days†again. If that would be the case I don’t need bales scattered about here and there along drifted up fence lines and such. Much easier to move them on [...]