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    Spring development

    Fall is spring development time. 1. The tire trough in the approximate location it will be set. Along with a few plumbing parts stacked on it for the time being. 2. The trail down which the pile line will be dug. You can see that blue dam that is by the trough in the top center. 3. The machine...
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    Patty wants to chase

    Patty the puppy has turned into a cow and deer chasing machine. We are working on more control with the cows and stopping the deer chasing. On Saturday we moved 150 steers and heifers to this side of the river. This evening 50-60 of them came into the field in front of the house. There is a...
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    Doctors?

    After a year of getting bad information from doctors and PA's along with staff that did a terrible job. I took matters into my own hands and went to a urologist in La Grande. Fist saw him about 3 weeks ago. He did a great job of explaining the issue and said that we could keep up the...
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    The calves

    So there is 140 calves out in the front field. Primarily black but about 15 or so Char cross calves and about the same number of red calves. Well I hate to admit it in this woke day and age but some of the calves appear to be racist. There is about 50-60 feet between the irrigation ditch and...
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    Patty ain't scared

    The wife took the dogs for a walk up the hill. Coming back down they got to the spring. The dogs found a skunk at the spring. Patty ain't scared of some stinky old skunk. Try to spray me and I will show you who is boss. The wife had to give both dogs a bath. Patty ain't scared of water...
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    Calves off BM cows

    Today we brought the calves off the broken mouth cows plus so others to my place. There is 149 of them. About half are off the old cows the other half are from Bert's somewhere. 140 went out on irrigated hay regrowth. We cut off 9 peanuts that went into the corral where they will get...
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    My old picture and story

    The cool picture H posted got me to thinking about one of mine. The picture and the deer are no where near as good but I have a pretty good story to go with it. The first one is a picture of my Granddad with a deer tht my Dad shot. It was shot in 1940. The year before Grandpa told Dad he...
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    Shipped the broken mouth cows

    We gathered the broken mouth cows on Saturday. Shipped them on Sunday. They were processed on Monday. The checks came on Thursday. The plant has a rate they pay depending on carcass weight and grade. It runs from $1.49 to $1.30. On 32 cows I had 20 at the $1.49, 11 at $1.48, and 1 at...
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    Great Peaches

    Not Soaps lovely bride although I am sure she is great. These were U-pick peaches over at Kimberly. A little bit of a drive but we picked 102 pounds of peaches in about 15 minutes. Priced at $1.05 a pound. That is half the price at the grocery stores and fruit stands in Baker. We stopped at...
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    Garden produce

    First home raised cantaloupe. There is a bunch of them in the garden all coming ripe. I think we have had fresh corn on the cob out of the garden every day for the last week. Started giving some corn away. We have watermelon too. Jumped the gun on the first on of those. The chickens ended...
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    Colorful Morning

    The dogs were barking in the kennel which made me look outside. No clue what they were barking about but it got me looking in time to see a great sunrise. A beautiful start to the day.
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    Excitement in Baker

    So about 5:00 I decided to drive into Baker for a couple of things. About half way to town there was a state police car parked in the middle of the freeway. The trooper was out of the car looking back the way I had come from with what looked like binoculars. About a mile or so later I was in...
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    We are in the wrong business

    Yesterday I decided to the sale. I didn't realize that La Grande doesn't have AC. I also didn't realize they had a lamb special sale. So I got to sit through 600 lambs. Lambs weighing 90-110 brought $2.55 to $2.72. They say 5 ewe run on the same ground as one cow. Well 5 lambs fresh off...
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    Wolves

    The neighbor stopped by just now. Another neighbor and him have been riding through the cows pretty much daily. This last week they have found 3 confirmed wolf kills. One calf and two yearling steers. They are now waiting for a kill permit which they are suppose to get with 2 confirmed wolf...
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    On a Good Note

    I see cull cows are way up. Vale report said the bulk of cows sold for 72-80 cents with the top at 84.50. Heck shelly thin cows listed at 55 to 66 cents. And last week on Superior feeders sold real well. If the cow market stays up like this for a month my old broken mouth cow deal will pay...
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    Sunday Drive

    Yesterday to beat the heat we went for a drive. The AC in the car works great. We went up past the little town of Halfway into the Wallowa mountains. To the Hell's Canyon over look. Up at 7,000 feet it was a cool 88 degrees which beats 100+ at home. Drove down to Oxbow on the Snake River...
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    Roadside vegetation management

    The road side vegetation management team came to visit this afternoon. It is nice of them to trim along the driveway but we don't need them in the yard. Edna just mowed the lawn and they would probably eat her flowers. So down the road towards home they went with a little convincing from a...
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    Haines rodeo

    We went to the Haines rodeo today. I have been to a ton of rodeos. This one had to be the slowest sloppiest run show I have ever been to. We left after 2 1/2 hours and they weren't half done. I wont bother to go there again. One of my problems is the president of the committee is a friend...
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    Anniversary

    Three years ago today we moved in here. In some ways if feels like yesterday. In others it seems like a long time ago. The first picture was taken the first week we were here. The second one today. In the three years the house got a new roof on the two story portion. The entire down stairs...
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    Broke my shovel handle

    Before anyone gets any ideas about me working so hard that I broke my shovel, I didn't. This old shovel has been bouncing around in the back of my pickup for 3 years. It has come in handy for a lot of things. This morning me and the puppy were driving out the driveway to go the post office...
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