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It has been up to 70 degrees here the last couple days. That melts the snow. The hill behind the house is 4,700 feet tall. A couple days ago there was snow down to around 4,000. Now there is barely any clear up to the top. The reservoir is dang near full so the dam man has been dumping 650...

Well it is a 3 calf morning. But not a black calf morning. Normally buying these one and done cows it is a real rainbow herd. Not so much this year. There is 4 red white faced cows, 4 solid red cows, and Charlie the Charolais. The other 55 are all either black or baldie cows. None of the...

It is not often that the wife calls you while at the sale and says stop on your way home an pick up some chicks. I am getting older and it is not as easy to pick up chicks as it once was. So I stopped at Oregon Trail Livestock Supply and got 10 Barred Rock pullet chicks.

The wife was disappointed when she decided that at 72 she was just too old to go sledding. I pointed out a hill with a gentle slope and lots of run out but she declined. Then yesterday late afternoon I pulled up in front of the house. There was a big snow ball in the front yard. She was...

Wishing a very Merry Christmas to one and all.

Last week I had a cow show up over in Bridgeport. That is about 15 miles from here by road and it is about 10 miles by road the other direction to where she was turned out. If she cut the corner and went in a straight line it is about 20 miles from A to B. I planned to take her to the sale...

Compared to last week today was a pretty short sale. I got 2 cows bought. When I got home I glanced at the brand release paper. Right off I noticed something. One of the cows I bought came from a neighbor. A lightning C on the left rib. We will have to make sure we get that cow branded and...

Last Thursday I hauled in a kill bull and cow for B. Left the house before 9:00. Got to the sale a little before 11:00am. Watched a couple thousand feeders sell. Only got one cow bought at about 7:00pm. They got done with bred cows and started in with kill cows at about 7:10. Dashed to the...

My son came to go deer hunting last Friday. Brought his youngest daughter with. That 11 year old girl is a deer spotting machine. Season opened on Saturday. All he was seeing was spikes and 2 points. Today would have been his last day to hunt. Yesterday morning he headed up the hill on the...

It is not just everyone who has a pet bear in their backyard and a pet coyote in the front yard. The wife says we live in a zoo. Except it is us caged in the house with the critters looking in the windows to see what the people are doing. The bear is in the yard daily. Most days it shows up...

I found a machine which will roll up old barb wire. Looks to be a good machine which can roll up a quarter mile of wire in just a matter of a few minutes compared the time doing it by hand. There is miles of fence needing to be replaced after the fires. I am wondering what it would be worth to...

With all the fences and the vast majority of the grass burned up cows are wandering free. Fire tends to jump around and leave little patches which didn't burn. So as the cows graze off those little patches and no fences left to hold them they migrate off to find grass. Being the first place they...

We went to the Pendleton Roundup yesterday. If you have never been there it is a huge arena. Five acres of grass with about a 40 foot wide dirt track around the outside. It gets and is western. There is a 18 (?) inch tall plastic rail on the inside of the track. That rail gets taken down...

The fire brought down a lot of wildlife. There is no where left for them in the hills. So this evening I had 2 people tell me that they saw a black bear sow with 2 cubs on my property which they saw from the road. A bit ago the dogs were barking in their kennel. The wife went out and shined a...

The one and done cows are all done. With the grass shortage because of the fire it was time for them to leave. They were on some irrigated pasture which is going to be needed by some long term cows who will be coming out of the hills shortly. The cows were going to go direct to the plant but...

Took a drive yesterday and bought a new flaker feeder. It hauls and feeds out 2 of the 3x4x8 that I feed. It is operated remotely with a key fob. Push the right button and things happen. You set a bale flat on the table on the rear. It tips up on edge in the feeding position. Drop the...

There was a lightning strike at about 8:50 this morning. Started a fire and the fire just blew up. I thought they had it at around 3:00 this afternoon. The west edge got away from them. It is sort of headed this way. Although it looks to be climbing the hills to the south east of us. I was...

Hay is all in the stack yards. Irrigation water is running all over the place. The thermometer looks to be just under 110. It is out on the deck and I am not walking out there to get an exact reading. The wife is doing laundry and hanging cloths outside. She said it is working a lot faster...

We went to a friends house for a BBQ and visit with friends. Stayed and watched the fireworks in Haines from their yard which has to be 3 or 4 miles from Haines. After the fireworks we gathered up our stuff and left. When we got to highway 30 I was shocked. I hadn't thought about this The...

The hay hit the ground yesterday and the day before. It is supposed to be in the 90's with a 10-20 mph wind and humidity in the low 20's. It will dry good. By the time it gets baled it is supposed to be in the 100's. So I get to haul and stack hay in the hot weather. Two tractors. One in...