Been real hectic around this country lately. We are chasing the few spears of hay around that are worth cutting, and trying to stay cool. Our range and hay is about completly dormant, and the drought is rearing it's ugly head again, after a good start this year. Yesterday, it was in the low to mid 100's, and we had lightning caused fires most of the afternoon, and into the middle of last nite. We started out about half way between here and Liberty Belle's ranch, on a smaller fire, then moved to a lightning caused fire that burned two barns and some corrals, about 40 miles in the other direction. They had that controlled about the time we got there so we went home. Then about 11 o'clock last night 50 mph winds started a small grass fire again out of the barn fire, so back over there for us. Then the lightning started another fire closer to our summer range, so back another 30 miles to the SE of here we went. :x That fire took some gettting to as it was an area with a lot of creeks and draws with lots of huge sage to dodge around. It was on a ranch that grazes lightly, so the fuel was incredible. It would torch the sage that was over waist high on me, (I'm about 6'3" tall), and burn pretty wild when the wind would whip up. Fortunately the winds had gone down to about half of what they had been earlier, and there were some light rain showers too that helped some. It could have been really bad had the wind been worse, as the old grass was just incredibly thick.
All in all we covered a couple hundred miles in the brush truck, and got home about 6 o'clock this AM. :roll:
Well, it was too hot to be doing anything else anyway. :wink: