Mid October 2012

[Soapweed]

My dad showed up at the corrals as we loaded calves on trucks.

The sand is soft in the corrals. Dust is an ongoing factor.

The crew

More of the crew showed up.

A well attended meeting where a bureaucrat is telling us that the post office will at least go to shorter hours, and probably be closed altogether. :roll:

Sorting replacement heifer calves

Sunflower and Goose hold the herd

Yellowstone from my perspective

Cows and calves on the move

Through the gate

A smidgen of fresh grass saved back for weaning. The right side of the fence has had no cattle in it all summer, but it still has almost no
grass because of late freezes, little or no rain, and a multitude of grasshoppers eating what was there.

Kosmo Kid shutting the gate

While staying astride his horse

Yellowstone, half Tennessee Walking Horse and half Quarter Horses. He's a pretty good horse.

Cows about ready to realize their calves are no longer with them

The cows have been sorted

So we are taking them home to lock them in the dusty corrals

Heifer calves being weaned

They will stay on the clean ground where there is still a little bit of grass.

 

[Shortgrass]

Merriman and Rush must be on the same list.

 

[EastWind]

The Heifers look like they came of the cows in good shape, any moisture in your forecast.

 

[Faster horses]

You have done a good job managing those pairs, Soap. They certainly don't look droughty. They look good.

Your dad looks a bit chilly in that first picture!

Sorry about losing your post office. That's gonna make it pretty inconvenient for those in that get their mail in small towns. Even here they have cut back the hours the post office is open.

 

[Soapweed]

You have done a good job managing those pairs, Soap. They certainly don't look droughty. They look good.

Your dad looks a bit chilly in that first picture!

Sorry about losing your post office. That's gonna make it pretty inconvenient for those in that get their mail in small towns. Even here they have cut back the hours the post office is open.

I suppose one way or another, the bills will still arrive in everyone's mailboxes. :wink:

What the Post Office should do is to contract that business to private enterprise. I guarantee that a private business could either turn the postal service into a profitable deal, or someone else could. The government should just step aside and allow this to happen, and try their best not to strangle this or any other business with undoable regulations.

"Obamacare" should take a lesson. If the government run postal business cannot be run profitably, a government run medical business for sure can't be run profitably. Government needs to protect our borders, and then more or less get out of the way so private businesses can succeed.

 

[Faster horses]

You have done a good job managing those pairs, Soap. They certainly don't look droughty. They look good.

Your dad looks a bit chilly in that first picture!

Sorry about losing your post office. That's gonna make it pretty inconvenient for those in that get their mail in small towns. Even here they have cut back the hours the post office is open.

I suppose one way or another, the bills will still arrive in everyone's mailboxes. :wink:

What the Post Office should do is to contract that business to private enterprise. I guarantee that a private business could either turn the postal service into a profitable deal, or someone else could. The government should just step aside and allow this to happen, and try their best not to strangle this or any other business with undoable regulations.

"Obamacare" should take a lesson. If the government run postal business cannot be run profitably, a government run medical business for sure can't be run profitably. Government needs to protect our borders, and then more or less get out of the way so private businesses can succeed.

Well said, Soap. :clap:

One of our hunters years ago was a mailman in Minnesota. Boy, could he tell some stories of how the post office ran. He delivered the mail on foot and he was not allowed to cross the lawns, had to use the sidewalk and if he couldn't get his mail delivered in a certain amount of time, the PO hired another person. Same with sorting the mail. If they couldn't do it in an allowed amount of time, another person was hired. They couldn't sort faster and there was someone there timing them. :???: This was back in the late '60's, early '70's.

 

[Dreamin Big]

You have done a good job managing those pairs, Soap. They certainly don't look droughty. They look good.

Your dad looks a bit chilly in that first picture!


I suppose one way or another, the bills will still arrive in everyone's mailboxes. :wink:

What the Post Office should do is to contract that business to private enterprise. I guarantee that a private business could either turn the postal service into a profitable deal, or someone else could. The government should just step aside and allow this to happen, and try their best not to strangle this or any other business with undoable regulations.

"Obamacare" should take a lesson. If the government run postal business cannot be run profitably, a government run medical business for sure can't be run profitably. Government needs to protect our borders, and then more or less get out of the way so private businesses can succeed.

Absolutely :agree: :clap: