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Grass and cattle look great! The feet, miserable for cows and caretakers alike to deal with! Guess I'll stick with our dry, native grass (mostly Big and Little Bluestem) and other native northern plains grasses. Never have planted much except to get some more uniform hay crops. This was a much...

Congratulations to you and your docs on the recovery! May you stay on the cancer free road. It affects way too many people! I've battled thyroid and breast cancer, and just had a skin cancer removed from my nose. Strangely enough, a younger woman from our area was in the dermatologist office...

Best wishes for great success in your exciting new venture, Mr. and Mrs. MYT! Looks as if you stirred up memories of early married life for some of us on this site. The photo's of your scenery with that mountain off in the distance to greet you each day, and returning to familiar and historic...

It's great to have your photo's again! But looks like 'Mother Nature' thought she had to show off with more snow than you may need right now to celebrate your photography!!!! Or is it all needed and welcomed to re-charge your lakes and the Oglalla acquifer? We only have two 'helpers in...

Thanks for the 'pasture and related activities' tour, Soapweed. I turned down an opportunity to do that here a couple of days ago. I thought I was too tired to enjoy it, and have regretted missing the fun of one of our spectacularly beautiful fall days seeing some of the 'back side' of the ranch...

We did something similar, FH. Went to the matched bronc ride in Philip, SD Friday night. The broncs were excellent and made the cowboys look a little less so. Several were from the Calgary string, and really fired. Some very good cowboys bit the dust a little early and others didn't look as good...

That calf on the table looks like a nice solid calf! We are winding down calving, too, a little later than we prefer after a Mid-March start for the cows. Hope we can tighten that up next year. Do most ranchers have that "next year!" mindset??? Three of our crew have been to several brandings in...

There were quite a few individual black families who homesteaded across SD, but I've not heard of specific nor segregated communities like that one. Several families came to this general area and descendants remain today. They were, and are, good neighbors and friends. mrj

Soapweed, you should be an expert on which is the best features of those Rangers! When the talk of getting one of our own gets more serious, we will know where to go for advice. It will be nice to have your sister nearby to substitute for the 'grandma' of the house while Peach is gone. Bet she...

Thanks for the photo's, Soapweed. Our 'Fall Color' lasted about 15 minutes and was minus the Cottonwoods as they got a rust in late summer and turned black. Especially all along the Bad river and most of the tributaries on the south side of the river. We had to count on the Red Grass, and it...

I will add my congratulations to Sunflower, and add that her wonderful smile brightens the day! It is also great to hear from you, nonrancher, beef eater! mrj

Fantastic art there! Do you know 'the rest of the story' of the saddle and the artist who achieved the beautiful work of art? mrj

Soapweed and family, it is great to have the photo's again! You must all be having such a great time with those 'grands'. We just celebrated the third birthday of our first great grand girl and her baby sister was six months old on that day, so have started celebrating 'half birthdays', too. I...

Sure hope you get some of the snow storm predicted for the Rocky Mtns. It has been a pretty good, open winter, but awfully cold lately. Some young guys helping build our new barn have put in some miserable days. Looks like they finally finished with the roof yesterday, when the temp. might have...

Fun to read your posts. I have grandkids ages 10, 17, 21, 22, 24, 25, and 30, the last two being the boys, so can relate to your 'experiences'. The boys are married, with the oldest having two little girls one who will be three in May, and the other three and a half months old. We were recently...

Re. "two out of three paying attention" could also be "and one is watching the road intently". Great photo's, as usual. Such pretty sky pictures are pretty easy for us in this part of the country. The events at Bowring look like lots of fun. Hope we can get there someday when they are having...

We had a friend in nw SD who said any day the wind isn't blowing is a beautiful day in SD. It could be cold or most any other condition, but if there was no wind it was a beautiful day. And I'm sure most of his days were spent out working on his ranch, so he pretty well knew what he was talking...

That is a beautiful scene, JodyWy. Is that snow, or just 'moon shine' on the ground? Pretty, but I'm just not ready for snow! Not even on your mountains because there is only the rest of Wyoming and a third of SD between there and here and we sure don't need any snow. That scene isn't a whole...

The pics of the kids and their puppy reminds me of when our now 30 year old grandson got his first puppy from his great grandma. The kid and the pup spent at least a year fighting and biting each other before they really fell in love with one another. Sad thing is the pup got run over about a...

I feel a little out of place posting on this subject, having never posted a photo. Sure do enjoy them when others do, and hope to get more into taking pictures soon. Have people been able to post photo's here taken on their phones? I need a new camera, or maybe the battery, and haven't really...