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It's been clear and sunny out this way for the past week. The snow we had has went into the ground thanks to days in the upper 30's. It still hits single digits at night but hasn't been bitter cold. Thought I'd post a few pictures of how thing look around here. I have an 86 year old neighboring rancher that is one of the finest guys I know. He is salt of the earth and a great guy. I help him whenever I can. This mornin' I went out and helped him feed his cows. The frost on the meadow gives away where we came from.


The feed truck which Cal drives and I work as the bale proccessor.


Stringing out the oat hay for the cattle. He runs 70 odd head of crossbred cows on private meadows and some foothill country.


The gals had a good scatter to them. One honk of the horn and they headed our way.


Half the load was oats and the other half is tall wheat grass cut and baled before it gets to stemmy. It makes decent enough feed for being old rangy grass. The trick is get it while it's young and palatable. The cows slick it up.


Looking back toward Cal's home. It's a pretty spot to spend almost a century being a great steward of land and family. He is a fine friend!


The remnants of our snow where it drifted along a fence. It is still better than 3 feet in spots.


Now a few of the goings on around my own place. I started calving and have 4 so far. It is perfect weather for calving and I hope they all come in the next couple of weeks. A cow that I really like and her heifer calf.


A 1st calf heifer who had the first calf of the year for us.


Her bull calf soaking up the mornin' sun.


I had planted a bunch of posts and ties before the ground got frozen and I have been working on a stackyard and a division fence when the weather allowed all winter. I'll feed right out of the stackyard when I get the manger finished. I still need to add some mini-trackhoe tracks along the bottom as a toe kick.


A gate that will end up going into a finishing corral/calving parlor when I get it all finished.


And a shot of the division fence I've been working on. I need to get the last of the pine poles attached over the net wire and add a barb across the top. My work crew is lazy and not well motivated. I'd fire the guy but he works really cheap. :wink: Enjoy your evening.
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