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    Took a Sunday drive

    A friend told us about where to pick huckleberries. They aren't ready yet but we decided to go drive up there to find the general location. Drove right past Nicky's place. We waved as we went past. I don't know if you saw us. We were told to go 10 miles up the Eagle Creek Road. We got...
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    Slaughter capacity

    Early this week the neighbor called over to Caviness about getting a load of kill cows in to the plant. He was told that the first available date was June 29. They told him the retail product was selling well. They are just short staffed and can't get anymore people to come to work. They...
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    Up the canyon

    We took a drive up the canyon mostly to get out of the house this evening. Had 5 bighorn rams run across the road in front of us. The wife want me to get a picture of one jumping the fence. Right. They were shooting out of the brush on the right side of the road. About two leaps and they...
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    Mosquitoes

    People worry about snakes but world wide many more people die due to mosquitoes. I am aware of and keep an eye out for snakes. Mosquitoes I try to keep out of my eyes. It has been fairly breezy the last few days. That sort of helped keep them down. This morning is calm. They are swarming...
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    Body condition

    About 7 weeks ago we branded the calves and hauled off the pairs. At that time there was 15 dry cows who hadn't calfed yet. We kicked them up on a couple hundred acres behind the house to calf. There has been no rain this spring so there wasn't much grass. It is a lot of up and down and...
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    Went to see new Granddaughter

    So we bail out of here early Friday and spent the better part of the day driving up to the Olympia WA area. Stayed at the son's place. The next day we had a family gathering for all of us who hadn't met the new granddaughter. Sweet little girl. No fussing or crying as she was held by Mom...
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    The Mighty Fall

    Has anybody been watching this whole mess with Easterday. I see now the Rabo bank has jumped in and is saying that the Easterday Farms Inc and Easterday Ranches Inc bankruptcy should be separate. I think it is because Tyson has the feedlots hung out to dry and wants money from the farm side of...
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    Calf check

    When we branded the dry cows were kicked up above my house. So every evening I go up to see if there are any new calves that I can find. There is 15 cows on about 300 acres of steep draws and tall sage brush. I have yet to find a new calf. They all look to be 3 or 4 days old the first time I...
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    Went fishing

    I have been complaining because the outboard motor on my boat is toast. I want to go fishing. Last week we were over by the Malheur reservoir. There was half a dozen people well spread out fishing from the bank. I said these people wouldn't all be over in the middle of no where fishing if...
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    Took a Drive

    The wife said lets take a drive over the Malhuer City. That is an old gold mining town from the 1870's or I should say the site of. The ghost town burned up in a range fire back in 1957. There is a well maintained cemetery with green mowed grass out in the middle of nowhere. So this stone...
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    Irrigation

    On a cool breezy May morning. And so begins every morning of my life for the next four and a half months. I normally change the water in the morning. After this morning I am thinking I should do this in the afternoon until the weather warms up. I told the wife that and she said what...
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    Bottle calves

    With this old cow one and done deal I have going on this year a person ends up with a few bottle calves. I had two this year. One from a cow that died and one from a cow who didn't have milk. Of course you keep them in case you need a graft calf. Well the cows went to the hills on Tuesday...
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    If I Were

    Yesterday morning I played the clip from Fiddler on the Roof where he is singing "If I Were a Rich Man". I was singing along and dancing around like he does. Made the wife laugh and she said that I must be feeling good. This morning I glanced out the window and caught a beautiful sun rise. I...
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    Moving day

    I have the only bridge on the river for miles. One of my neighbor's cows calf on the road side of the river and his range land is on the other side. This time of the year the river is too high for young calves to cross. So they herd the cows and calves up the road, down my driveway, across...
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    Blooming..... flowers and idiots

    The daffodils are blooming. The apricot tree is blooming. The Forsythia bushes are blooming. And it is snowing this morning. Not hard and too warm to stick but it is white stuff falling from the sky. And for some unknown reason some of the downstream neighbors decided that today was the day...
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    I remembered

    I got to think about something I witnessed 35 or so years ago. I have deleted the names and locations to protect the guilty. The characters in the story. #1 A man I got to know who was raised on a 800 cow ranch in Deer Lodge, Montana who at that time was working for the Federal Land Bank. #2...
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    27

    Yesterday my 27th calf this year was born. The cow who had this calf is #27. Had she waited one day the calf would have been born on the 27th. I am sure that this is some sort of sign. Not sure what it is a sign of but too many 27's to be coincidence.
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    Idaho Shag ?

    Question? Does anyone know what the breeding is on an Idaho Shag? I lost my good Border Collie a couple weeks ago. She was 14 and went every where with me. Today the neighbor comes over unannounced with a puppy. He has some real good Border Collies. He came to have a young shag bitch...
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    The Great Elk Ambush 2020

    The great elk ambush 3.0 was a success today. Over 100 elk to choose from. I shot a yearling cow. We will be eating good in the neighborhood this winter. And my hunting partner neighbors made what can be a tough job a breeze. I did get a close up look at the herd bull. Oh to have had a bull...
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    Finally got a loader

    I bought this Massey 390 while I was still over on the coast. Plan A was to mount a loader on it. But they wanted more for a new loader than I paid for the tractor. So after several years of trying I finally found a used loader in decent shape for an affordable price. It is a Farmhand F258...
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