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A big meal for both Canadian and American Thanksgiving. You know that gluttony is one of the 7 deadly sins.

Happy Thanksgiving to all except the Canadians who celebrated Thanksgiving a month ago. But some of them will probably double dip and feast again today.

This is fine but where was all this rain back in September when I would have done some good.

I was on the ballot for the local soil and Water conservation district. Watched the election returns until late last night. All they talked about was Trump and Harris. Not a word about my election. These news media people don't know what is important. I had to look up the results on Elkhorn...

If I were any farther from Portland I would be in Idaho.

I saw on the news last night that the businesses in Portland were boarding up. Like they are expecting a riot tonight or tomorrow. Is that a sign of an early election prediction? Sort of like Ground Hog Day or the Indians having lots of fire wood means it is going to be a cold winter.

I have "Heading up French Glen" by William Matthews hanging in the living room. I have had that one for over 12 years. My wife owned a ranch just south of there for about 14 years. A couple from church lives just west of there a ways. They walked into our house the picture stopped them...

Happy Birthday FH

I found out that along with no help for reseeding they can't help with fencing because I am in the grassland reserve program. So I come up with a brilliant idea. Get my neighbor to sign up for cost share and I will pay him for half of his portion of the cost. A great idea until I talked to...

Cameras and air planes.

Some has started up. Some where the sage brush was real thick it burned real hot and the grass was thin there isn't a hint of coming back. So for now I will wait. The other thing about seeding I could get some better species of grass growing. The previous owner had way too many horses and...

That is cheap. Here it is $3 or $4 a foot. So $15,000 - $20,000 a mile. I found out today that there is money for reseeding. Except!! Land enrolled in the grassland reserve program doesn't qualify. All of my land except the hay meadows is in grassland reserve. So they are paying me not to...

There is a rumor floating around that the owner of Oregon Trail Livestock Supply is going to get a semi load of fence supply and sell them at cost. His family owned a ranch just up the valley so he has close connections with all the ranchers. Plus it is good business. Sell supplies at cost...

I did a little shopping today. Pricing wire and posts. I wish I could get wire for $75 a roll. Prices I was quoted were $100 to $130 a roll. And that was buying in large lots, pallet of wire 27 rolls.

They are but they poop in the yard enough to make it look like a bear feedlot. The wife shovels off 15 to 18 piles everyday. Neighbor had a big fat cow die. I picked it up and put it in my bone yard which is over half a mile from the house. I am hoping the bear would rather eat beef than apples.

Wife saw the bear climb a tree in front of the house. Not the apple tree. It is a black walnut maybe 18 inches on the stump and about 20 feet from the house. As it got lighter out we spotted a cub and eventually the second cub. I tried to take pictures of them in the tree but it was still too...

There is enough apples on the ground that the bear should need to climb. But being bears they probably will.

With all these fires around the west you already can't find grass seed. Barb wire is going to be in very short supply too. Our fire they figure destroyed 1,000 miles of fence. Four strand fence takes 16 rolls per mile. So 16,000 rolls of wire just for our fire along.

Not an orchard. Two big old trees, one in the southwest corner of the yard, the other in the northeast corner. The house in between. First 2 pictures are the Gravenstein tree in the northeast corner. Apples are just now coming ripe. It is the one the bear is working on. The third picture is...

I went to the sale yesterday. I tried to give away my bear but had no takers. I explained that she is a good mother raising twins and an easy keeper. But the downside is that she is cinnamon and not black. So she wont make CAB (certvided Angus bear). Some people think that would dock the value.