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I heard last night that they found the shooter based on his cell phone ping. He had exchanged gun fire with the cops earlier in the day. And he was dead when they found him. They won't say much more than that. They removed the body and what other evidence they could find but the fire was...

Just about 3 sides of my place is bordered by BLM. That is good and bad. But at least I don't have to worry about some urban dweller buying it. What ranch land around here sold to outsiders has been purchased for them to hunt on. It still gets leased to ranchers to graze on.

As much as the urban dwelling people were scared of the idea that there might be a rattle snake in the yard I have to wonder. It has been nearly 7 years since I last killed one that was actually in the yard. But what would they think about a bear in the yard? Especially a sow with cubs. Like...

We didn't have a rattlesnake show up. Some of these town people are terrified at the idea that there are rattle snakes here.

We ended up with 15 people. Our garage is 2 car wide but a lot deeper. We planned from the start to pull the cars out and set up the food in there. Most of the people just lined up their chairs in there. It got up to 60 degrees that day. I saw some sweaters and vest etc but not everyone...

Typical eastern Oregon rain. Not enough to settle the dust. It wasn't Nicky who go the wind. It was Ned Jr in Colorado. I made the same mistake. Saw the big N and assumed it was Nicky. But I read it and wondered how Nicky got that much wind when it barely blew here. Went back and looked...

We invited a bunch of town people from church out to have a picnic in our back yard today. Figured to do it before it got too hot. Well, I got that part right. The high for today is forecast at 57. It is 57 right now it might hit 58. Been in the 80's for 2 weeks. I have 20 people coming out...

Years ago I worked in a log camp in SE Alaska that was owned by Seventh Day Adventists. Not a lot of pork on the menu. They had beef bacon. Seemed just fine to me. Of course running up and down the hills all day packing a 40 pound chain saw will work up an appetite.

One of my neighbors in college was from John Day. We had a farm management class together. I remember he brought in a Grant County map. It was color coded. Land owned by his Dad, Land owned by his uncle. BLM allotments of Dad's and a different color for uncles BLM. Same with forest...

We use to go through there every year going the Kimberly to the orchard. Great upick peaches. But the trees we planted here started producing so we haven't driven up there in a couple years.

So I ran up on the hill and took a few pictures of this fine species. It doesn't harm cattle to eat it but 99% of the time they won't eat it. What it does do is take over and out compete everything. These pictures were all taken up in the area which burned. You will notice burnt off sage...

I am thinking about giving B a bad time about all his white top. Tell him he must have found a market for white top seed. Combine his place and make a killing. There is a lot of it that came up in the fire area. Some big patches that they will have to spray with a drone. Way too steep for...

Hoary Cress. it also has a scientific name but I don't know what that is.

The wind died down enough that I actually got some spraying done. It seems to be a great white top year. I am not able to kill it all but I sure got a lot of it yesterday.

I got the idea thinking about a neighbor who had pasture chickens in the early 60's. He caught owls and hawks that were killing his chickens. Of course back then kill those birds of prey was perfectly acceptable. I never caught anything but the dog food stealing magpies. I recently changed...

They were flying into the dog kennel to steal dog food. I got a few shooting at them. Then I noticed they would land on top of the posts. I set old muskrat traps on top of the posts. That got a lot of them.

I don't see many crows on my place. A few ravens who keep their distance. But war has been declared on Magpies and I am slowly winning.

The wife is down in Goldendale right now. The north side of the Columbia Gorge. Every evening she calls me and she says the wind is really blowing there. The saying down there is the wind blows 360 days of the year. The other 5 it is just changing direction.

Well that is a couple minutes I won't get back. What a bunch of BS.

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