Oasis in the middle of the Desert

[Anonymous]

As I've said before- this old Great American Desert relys on water so much...Water table is up this year- and the springs are really holding up good..

One of the springs that often is dry by this time of year- running a good stream out of the sidehill....

One of the two waterholes/fishing holes I drive by going to either of the pastures....This was a good perch hole until someone stuck northerns in it....

The other pond and Fish and Game camping spot...Both these holes are spring fed- and were created when they were dug out for gravel to build the old Glasgow AFB back in the 50's...

Even got an "outhouse on the hill"- which is handy when I have the Grandkids with me while checking cows......Fish and Game stock this with trout.....

Fifteen miles out in the middle of nowhere- and you run into the old Glasgow AFB which was closed in the 70's...It has one of the larger runways in the world- was used for B-52's thru the Vietnam period- and was once considered as an alternate landing strip for the space shuttle....Runway is now leased by Boeing for flighttesting...

Housing at the old Base (now called Saint Marie)....100's and 100's of housing units sitting empty - with about 200 occupied- mostly be retired military folks- many of which spend a lot of time at the fishing holes...

 

[Horseless]

I just drove that road by there on Wednesday on my way up to Assiniboia. I thought things looked good in your area. Not sure if that is your north place just off to the west of the mail box. If it is, it looked like you had some dryland hay to cut. A while back you posted a picture of a rock foundation of a building just south of the air base. Not sure how many times I have driven past that and never thought anything of it until you posted the picture. Then there is the Air base, what a waste! It is just shocking how large it is (or was) I have a cousin that is just as wasteful as the Fed. government. He went in there a bought the bowling alley, stripped it out and it is all stored on my place. But as brilliant as he is, he stored all the wood lanes outside and covered them with plastic. You could guess what they are like now. There was a big quenset he could have put them but didn't. I have been trying to get him to get the machines moved out, but they are still here. I guess maybe I can lay claim to them now.

 

[the_jersey_lilly_2000]

That's an outhouse? I thought it was a deer stand haha. Wondered why it had a stove pipe.

 

[Anonymous]

I just drove that road by there on Wednesday on my way up to Assiniboia. I thought things looked good in your area. Not sure if that is your north place just off to the west of the mail box. If it is, it looked like you had some dryland hay to cut. A while back you posted a picture of a rock foundation of a building just south of the air base. Not sure how many times I have driven past that and never thought anything of it until you posted the picture. Then there is the Air base, what a waste! It is just shocking how large it is (or was) I have a cousin that is just as wasteful as the Fed. government. He went in there a bought the bowling alley, stripped it out and it is all stored on my place. But as brilliant as he is, he stored all the wood lanes outside and covered them with plastic. You could guess what they are like now. There was a big quenset he could have put them but didn't. I have been trying to get him to get the machines moved out, but they are still here. I guess maybe I can lay claim to them now.

Sounds like you're going to have to set up a bowling alley in your quonset.. :wink: Until they closed down that bowling alley- I used to swing in there quite often...Buy the kids a coke- have a beer- and BS with some of the folks that lived there...Kids always wanted to stop for a burger....

Yeah- the place off to the west is Grandpas old homestead-where my uncle still lives... Most of my pasture is east of the highway- and now I have the underpass open so the cows can come back and forth to the creek for water...

We've been using those old hayfields as improved pasture- pasture there in the early spring and again after the grain is off...Easier to graze than cut because of all the rocks and gopher mounds...Until these July rains the only thing that was growing was the alfalfa-and I didn't even think there would be enough to graze- but now the grass is coming back good with the moisture- so should have some fall pasture to puss up those calves good....

Just for info- I heard one the SD cattle buyers was in that Hinsdale area over the weekend- and actually looking for some calves...Sounds like he may have got most up north that he usually buys contracted-- one figure I heard was $1.08 at 565 for steers-- $1.10 if they had all the shots.....


Jersey Lilly- yep thats the outhouse- and thats the vent pipe- but if you ever go in one of them on a 90 degree day you wonder if the vent is working...... :shock: :wink: