Here and up in Washington it was when the bleeding hearts out law hound hunting for cougars. The cougar population exploded and deer population dropped. I wonder if there is a connection?
You have to be somewhere near the line between Columbia blacktails and Sitka blacktails. Neither one is anywhere near a mule deer for body or horn size.
I did see some alfalfa for $270 a ton. But it was in Hermiston which is probably a $30 haul from here. So $300 a ton laid in. Can't afford to feed old cows for that much.
I watched a bunch of about 150 head bred cows sell on Thursday. No one else must have hay. They sold pretty cheap for...
My son brought his business/hunting partner and family with him to hunt. Partner's first mule deer and his wife's first deer. While Dave's guide service worked out for them my son made a science out of missing deer. He missed 6 good bucks over 8 days. He ended up shooting a little spike up...
It is raining again right now. Not hard enough to amount to something like Sunday but it is more moisture. Yesterday I said something to Bert about the cows staying out to Christmas. He said that would be great. The hay guys who are sitting on their hay would have to turn it loose and it...
When one of my cousins got married some of her new husbands friends chained a ball and chain to the grooms ankle. A bowling ball with an eye bolt through it. Chain short enough that he had to stoop over to carry the ball.
On two separate weddings rodeo cowboys I knew turned loose a greased...
I got an inch and a half. Combine that with the 0.6 I got on Friday makes 2.1. About 20% of the annual. It would be nice to get some of this at a time of the year when it would really help. But the river hasn't come up too much so a lot of it soaked in.
The wind has to come from the east or southeast to get a run at my place. Every other direction I have big mountains or hills to block it. Today it was from the southeast. There was places against one of the lower hills where I was in the leeward side. But the mouth of any of the draws off...
It is 46 degrees, raining hard, with a 20 mph wind, and gust to 40. I had to feed the calves. Today would have been a good day for a cab on the tractor. But...... neither tractor has one. Reminded me of all those years on the coast. Not good memories. More like nightmares. And I...
It is raining again today. The wind is blowing and it is colder today too. And the weather radar shows snow above about 5,500 feet. Lookout, Little Lookout, and Pedro are all showing as snow. Sheep Mt behind me is 5,100 and it just shows as rain.
It started here about 11:00. I was headed out toward the corral. The sky just opened up. I turned to head for the house. There was a flash of lightning and an immediate roar of thunder. In a bit it slowed to a steady rain. About 6:00 it stopped. I checked the rain gauge 0.6 inch. It is...
This sign is along highway 97 near Goldendale Washington. I have heard that 100% of the WADOT road crew from Goldendale either quit or was fired because of Gov Inslee's vaccine mandate. Some of them must have put it up on their way out the door.
This is on Satus Pass. No road crew on Satus...
We had a different one earlier this week. So around midnight on Monday the wife said she could smell skunk. She went around a closed any open windows. Tuesday morning there was a slight skunk odor outside. Then Tuesday afternoon I was walking up the driveway along the corral fence. There...
I hate to think of how many saws I have worn out. I started out long enough ago that I ran Stihl 090 with a 42 inch bar and occasionally hung a 60 inch bar on it. Cut an awful lot of timber with a 075. The power head on those things weighed 36 pounds empty. Add a 36 inch bar and chain, they...
Go to work in the big timber and you will find nothing but Stihl or Husky. And the Stihl will out number by about 10 to 1. As memory serves me this tree was 8 foot 10 inches inside the bark. With about a foot of bark. I have fell bigger but this one I happened to have a camera with.
I wasn't complaining or intended to complain. Just a list things that went wrong. I am truly bless and I know it. I thank God every day for the life I am blessed with because I certainly don't deserve it.