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Attn. Shelly and other tough Northerners

Tap

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I have remembered in the last few days what it is like to calve in rank weather. It is not terrible cold (10's and 20's), but the wind chill has been horrid for late March. The point is that my hat is off to you tough Son of a Guns that reside even further north of here, that calve in mid winter. A few days of this and I am REAL sick of it. When you need to pull on your wool bibs to check hfrs. in the middle of the night, it is too cold. A light jacket and my hat is more to my liking.

Hoping for a Chinook, and nothing else. :wink: :!:
 

Shelly

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We're pretty much done calving now, and after the last few days with this wind and blowing snow, I sure am glad. It would've been awful tough on man and beast. Good luck to you Tap, hope we all get a chinook.

BTW, I'm having a hard time adjusting to your new name.
 

DiamondSCattleCo

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Shelly said:
and after the last few days with this wind and blowing snow, I sure am glad.

Ugh wasn't that rediculous? I don't know how Environment Canada measured it, but I had 4 feet of snow in 3 days, then it dropped to -30 for 6 days. The girls held onto their calves for us, which is odd. I expected to see a dozen calves buried in that 7 foot tall drift in the middle of the calving pens.

Rod
 

DiamondSCattleCo

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Faster horses said:
Those are mighty smart cows ya got there. Ours held on to theirs too, thank goodness.

:lol: I'm waitin for _somethin_ really bad to happen now. Generally for every 1 good turn around here, I get 10 or so bad :lol:

I shipped last years backgrounders today. Maybe the border will close again so my $900 calves will only be worth $400? Then I won't have to wait around with the sense of impending doom. :lol:

Rod
 

Shelly

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DiamondSCattleCo said:
Shelly said:
and after the last few days with this wind and blowing snow, I sure am glad.

Ugh wasn't that rediculous? I don't know how Environment Canada measured it, but I had 4 feet of snow in 3 days, then it dropped to -30 for 6 days. The girls held onto their calves for us, which is odd. I expected to see a dozen calves buried in that 7 foot tall drift in the middle of the calving pens.

Rod

I've got to get some pictures taken of my yard, and then try and get them posted on here. We've gone from piles of snow that were only a foot or so high, to mountains of snow that people could ski down!
 

DiamondSCattleCo

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Shelly said:
I've got to get some pictures taken of my yard, and then try and get them posted on here. We've gone from piles of snow that were only a foot or so high, to mountains of snow that people could ski down!

I wish I had a digital camera. I had the snow piled on either side of my driveway from the January snows. Banks were about 3 ft high. After the snow and blowing, you couldn't actually see the banks anymore. The hay yard was totally socked in, and my tractor/dozer blade couldn't move the snow. I finally had to hire in a guy with a snowblower to blow me a path. I'd lucked out and had hay in the yard here, so the girls didn't starve. If it hadn't been for that hay, I don't know what I would have done cause the snow blower guy was booked solid for 3 days.

:lol: I even got stuck with my snowmobile for cryin out loud :lol:

Rod
 

Mrs.Greg

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Even the snow isn't normal,its not light and fluffy,its like {for lack of better word :shock: }snot! Its hard to drive in ,you just sink!Lots of moisture in it I hope!
 

Shelly

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Husband can't even push it with his V-plow. He's been on the bobcat steady for days, it seems like we'll never get out from under all this snow. I know my yard will be flooded when it does start to melt! Going to have to put flotation devices on all the little critters just so they can keep their heads above water.
 

DiamondSCattleCo

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The young lad that runs the snowblower has got my business from now on. He was only charging $20/hr and he was able to accomplish in 1 hour what I couldn't even dent in a day with the front end loader.

Its super warm up here, so hopefully most of this snow is going back up instead of down. We had so much moisture last fall that we could never get rid of this stuff. My pens were so wet, ALL YEAR, that they never got cleaned. I had to clear more brush and do some fencing so the calves have a place this spring.

Rod
 

Tap

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Dang, you have to be careful what you wish for. I asked for the wind to go down, then when it did, it got down to 3 deg. F. from midnight on.

I am just going to quit trying. Or complaining. Ya right. :wink: :lol:
 
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