Some December photos

[RSL]

School Christmas Concerts (got to do 2 this year)
Ready to go

Ready to go night #2

Excited onlooker

Ready for our Church concert

It is a smaller but very important affair

Brought cows home off a bunch of swaths today. -25C when I hit the saddle this morning

Rounded up and out

New tracks to add to the deer trails

Frosty the snow horse

and the url of a short video off the horse (you can hear the snow squeaking under his hooves)
http://youtu.be/0m4NsWd5VoE
By the time I got home it had warmed up to -20 and I had my coat half unzipped. No wind and sunshine makes any day a beautiful day.

 

[Soapweed]

Cute kids and "cool" cattle drive pictures. How far did you trail the cows? It brought back old memories listening to the snow squeak. Thanks for taking us along, from the comfort of a soft chair in a heated house. :wink:

 

[gcreekrch]

You do have winter! Talked to Mac yesterday, said he has quit plowing the complete circle on his driveway as he can't keep up to the drifting.

Another freind who will be reading this from 30+ miles north of Lloyd called this morning. Didn't sound like as much snow there.

It will look real good when spring comes.

Kids had fun! :wink:

 

[RSL]

Cute kids and "cool" cattle drive pictures. How far did you trail the cows? It brought back old memories listening to the snow squeak. Thanks for taking us along, from the comfort of a soft chair in a heated house. :wink:

It is a couple of miles. We have one group of cows about 6 miles away cross country that will come home in late Feb/Mar. Like most places we run, the terrain is such that you can't get a trailer near the cows, so it is usually quicker just to run over on the horse and bring cows back on the trail that is broken in.
A couple of years ago we brought that bunch home in January through snow up to the horse's chest. I think that is the coldest I have ever been on a horse. We had to wait 2 weeks for a warm enough day and it was -30 when we started, it had warmed up to -25 by the time we got home, but the wind had picked up to 20mph. We punched our way in just over 3 miles found our cows and trailed them back home 6 miles. Dad got in the truck and trailered his horse home behind the cows for the last 3 miles.
I usually ride with an extra pair of socks in my coat, glove liners in my shirt pocket and if it is really cold an extra pair of gloves in my coat sleeve. When you get cold, it is awfully nice to switch out for a warm pair of gloves, or even socks.

 

[GM88]

Are they going bale grazing now? I love going to my kids Christmas concerts. Nice pictures thanks for taking us to your kids concert too.

 

[RSL]

Are they going bale grazing now? I love going to my kids Christmas concerts. Nice pictures thanks for taking us to your kids concert too.

More swaths. We won't hit bales for more than a month (barring a bunch more snow). Any swaths they don't get will be cleaned up in April/May, and let the grass get that much more of a start. Our other group is bale grazing on some stuff that we rolled and left sitting in the field, so the swaths didn't kill the winter triticale underneath.
I think my favourite concert was actually our little church one, held with no rehearsal. When our youngest gets to Sunday school the class will be more than 30% bigger. When I took the picture I realized it is the first one I ever took inside the church. The building was built in 1910 and the church is named after my Great Great Grandfather. Still a wood stove and volunteers light the fire and do the cleaning. We bring potluck lunch and have it together after the service each 1st and 3rd Sunday.

 

[Nicky]

Great pictures!! You sure have cute kids Billy has some pretty snazzy ties.

 

[starvin'dog]

We've got the hoar frost here too, for over a week now. What we've been missing is the sun, its been kind of gloomy.
If theres any truth to the frost/rain cycle maybe should start on an arc.

 

[R A]

Thanks for the pictures! I like a good snowy cattle drive! I missed my boy's Christmas program because of being sick.