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Up town earlier and priced some new barb wire at Orschelin's and WOW :shock: !! Guess I should've been buying more 10 or so yrs back. I seem to remember being able to buy it for about 35.00 not all that long ago (or is oldtimers setting in)? :lol: . I got a price of 66.00 up town and no...

Little calf that my Emily calls hers Emily and her little kitty Stewart Warming it up Still a little chilly Getting warmer Darn finally getting toasty We are down to the last 6 cows to calve and have been trying to get the pastures ready for summer. We burned that one off to try to make it...

We have always just gotten by with the basic kind however my oldest (10) is showing interest in hunting and I would like to find a better set of binoculars. I realize the sky is the limit but my conservative side says 150.00 or less would be a good spot to look at so I wouldn't be scared to let...

The Dead Cow and Vet School . . . First-year students at Texas A&M's Vet school were receiving their first anatomy class, with a real dead cow. They all gathered around the surgery table with the body covered with a white sheet. The professor started the class by telling them, 'In Veterinary...

My family was very lucky as this went about 6 mi to the NW of our house. There was a number of homes and out buildings damaged but no one was hurt (just badly scared)... http://www.crh.noaa.gov/crnews/display_story.php?wfo=oax&storyid=15011&source=0

The Mrs was cleaning/defrosting the deepfridge and found a couple prime rib roasts and she hasn't ever cooked one. Does anyone have a good recipe for prime rib? We have a couple but not really sure if they are the one to use.. Hate to mess up any prime rib... :) :P Thanks...

Been calving for a couple weeks and some calves from both cows and heffers. Out of the heffers we are only 3-5 two of them have lost their calves. The first loss was a heffer that was walking down a small hill in the calving pen stumbled and fell while she was walking down the slope toget to a...

Was just wondering how everyone heated your house? We have been working on ours over the last couple yrs and so I built a new chimney and installed this new wood furnace and also a new high eficiency (propane)furnace. Try not to use the propane much but the wood is the greatest thing since...

Down the road I go...... Shiny Tree's Crispy Grass Cold post Got to eat might as well be a good meal like Steak..... :lol: 8)

Last friday I took some old cows to the sale barn. They did well and have served me well but were getting old and nearing the need for some dental help.... :wink: I took a couple shots of the barn and them in the ring, plus a couple others..... Here is a shot of the barn and the parking lot...

Well we actually got to get away from home for a VACATION..... 8) It was one of the best I have ever had. We went to Valentine and went canoeing down the Niobrara on Thrusday. I had never been canoeing and it turned out to be a great time. Here is a shot of the crew... The weather was great...

Finally got 2nd cutting dried up and in small square bales. I hate handling them by hand but with my little helpers we can move a bunch of them in pretty short order.. :wink: Here is my square baling rig. Hate to admit it but the baler/accumulator is a almost older than I am.. :shock: It...

Well finally got a chance to start wheat harvest. Isn't like I have a lot to do (somewhere about 200 acres) but with everything else, I like to get with it and get it done... I started off this year doing about 80 acres for my uncle who doesn't have his own combine. I started out the day with...

The Mrs has decided we need a vacation and has come up with this idea to go canoeing down the Niobrara. Have friends out near Sargent and so would like to meet up with them and spend a day floating down the river and maybe an additional day or two around Valentine. It sounds like a good idea...

Oh what to do on a Sunday afternoon...... It was so muddy that I almost got stuck trying to get this little field cut..... :shock: I flipped the hay on wednesday afternoon as it was so wet under the windrow it wasn't likely to ever dry out.... Oh and notice the windrows..... That darn wind...

Sara decides to help by bringing the four wheeler around for me.. Cody helping set a heavy corner. His tractor driving is getting better all the time.. Getting ready to dig another hole.. Finally we are going to have some really nice new fences to enjoy. I have been at it the last couple...

I wear Tony Lama cowboy boots for work and I really like the 4013 Style that are simply a tan/brown boot with a good heavy sole. Does any one know of a place that keeps big sizes on hand I wear a 15 A and it is usually a deal were I call and order them and wait like 3 months to get them.. I have...

I have been teaching my oldest ( age 9) to drive a tractor... He has known how to start,stop, turn on and off the pto and lift and lower the hyd since he was just about 4-5. I work by myself most of the time and thought it would be good that he know how to do that stuff just in case of a...

Does anyone have a good way to unroll barb wire. I would like to use the 4 whlr and a trailer to unroll 2-3 rolls at a time or a person pulled one roll cart of some sort for the tough spots. I have tried several methods like the rod and two person carry, the plate across the back of the box and...

In the part one of trees I wrote about the mechanical way of getting rid of trees well there is a much faster way of getting rid of them. It is faster but not necessarily the most predictable way.. On Friday a friend of mine called on me to help him with a project. He was needing my help with a...