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jodywy

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Daughter leaving for Laramie today, but then the hay been all raked her horse road down. Back when I used to make the trip we had CB talked with a service truck from Kemmerer to Green River , he knew I was going to School had me fallow him off the first exit to his service station and he fill my tank up no charge. Then there was a station in Rawlins ran by some Hispanic that used to herd sheep... they always gave me a big candy bar with a fill up.
The youngest is not going back to college this year; He got his LDS mission call and will go to the MTC in Provo UT Oct 20th. Then after a quick Spanish course he goes onto Costa Rica to finish out his 2 years.
Empty nesters again, no wonder this ranch is falling to pieces no cheap help.
 
Quite a feeling Jody. Ours haven't quite moved out yet but I'm sure finding out how much they've done around here over the years. The hay field looks a lot bigger when one has to do the cutting, crimping raking and baling alone. The lawns look a lot hairier than they once did also!

But then they were never ours to keep, were they! It's really rewarding to see them go out and make their own place in the world. They have an invincible outlook. Life will show them otherwise, just as it has the rest of us.
 
we rented a 2 bed room apartment flor them last spring in Laramie.Think my daughter's Border collie really missed her, when they came home that dog danced on her hind legs for about half an hour. Really missed them during calving and Lambing, they were good about night checks.
 
Like I posted in city-data-forum, I'm definately lookin for work...simple paycheck + bunkhouse accomadations is all I need. Nothing fancy, as long as 4-wheelers are'nt used to trail cattle. Have had my fill of those type places. Have ranch-related references available. My ad is posted in 'jobs' link of this website...has been for quite some time now...tryin to stick here in Wyo where I'm licenced and legal to drive. Your choice...there's alot of dinks out there...I don't consider myself to be one of them.
 
Well with a kid in college one on a mission, the wife works insurance, this old place is coppled together, been alot 0f 12 to 18 days sometimes of the year.... If I had a few ertra ten of thousands of dollars I'd buy a semi load of posts a couple pallets of net and barb wire, big load of wood stays, some poles and you could tear out and built fence, corral and stackyards. Don't feed with a team since round bales and spin those off with a tractor.
 
y'know...readin that make me think I'm goin about this all wrong...

...perhaps I should convert to Mormon, and maybe THEN I'd qualify for the rangerider jobs.

Ya think ?

Dang...took me 17+ yrs digging post-holes out on the fenceline to figger that out...

...guess I'm not nearly as 'bright' as I thought I was...
 
Up in these mountain valleys seem the only riding jobs are a bid range rider-fencer, or a hunting guide September thru early December, but then you have to put up with dudes.
Seem like ranching here is an irrigation shovel, fencing pliers and playing swather mechanic, hay pitcher, with only a couple weeks riding fall round up.
 
jodywy said:
Up in these mountain valleys seem the only riding jobs are a bid range rider-fencer, or a hunting guide September thru early December, but then you have to put up with dudes.
Seem like ranching here is an irrigation shovel, fencing pliers and playing swather mechanic, hay pitcher, with only a couple weeks riding fall round up.
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Seems some things are the same no matter where you go. :wink:
 
ltdumbear2 said:
Like I posted in city-data-forum, I'm definately lookin for work...simple paycheck + bunkhouse accomadations is all I need. Nothing fancy, as long as 4-wheelers are'nt used to trail cattle. Have had my fill of those type places. Have ranch-related references available. My ad is posted in 'jobs' link of this website...has been for quite some time now...tryin to stick here in Wyo where I'm licenced and legal to drive. Your choice...there's alot of dinks out there...I don't consider myself to be one of them.
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If you are still being picky about who you will work for and what you will or will not do you must not need a job very bad yet.
 
Have paid my dues on large outfits like the Padlock, Arapaho and Ellison Spanish Ranch, and have also wrangled dudes on places like Jackson Lake Lodge/Brooks Lake Lodge and the '6 3' in Livingston MT...

...know what I've gotten out of it ?

The dude-outfits think I'm 'too much buckaroo', and the cow-outfits think I'm 'too much dude-wrangler'...

...I call it 'no-mans-land'...which is why after 3-mos of burnin' up last calving season's wages in a motel in Casper, I had to come north to wash dishes for minimum-wage, to avoid having to sell my saddle...or else I would've had to move into the Men's Shelter and live off tax-payers money...

I know how to work...I just have'nt been able to FIND the type work that I'm trained for, and qualified to do.

I suppose I'd go to college if I could, but my folks left that up to me many years ago, and I chose a more 'humble' life, working for ranchers.

If I could do it all again, I'd still choose the path I'm on...even if I pay the ultimate price, in the end...when Depression 2-point-oh finally sets in.

Compared with most, I don't ask for much out of life...just a good, reliable horse assigned to me, to help me cover the fencelines...and someone's cows to feed in the winter.
 
leanin' H said:
So far you've managed to offend Mormons and lowlife fence builders like myself. I can't imagine why ya don't have a job! :???: Good luck I guess.
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Yeah, you lowlife, I've even seen you mounted on a 4-wheeler moving cows!!! :P :lol: :lol:
 
gcreekrch said:
leanin' H said:
So far you've managed to offend Mormons and lowlife fence builders like myself. I can't imagine why ya don't have a job! :???: Good luck I guess.
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Yeah, you lowlife, I've even seen you mounted on a 4-wheeler moving cows!!! :P :lol: :lol:
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didn't he even have goats at one time.
Wife had some angors for awhile to spinn the mohair. the dang kid would get up on the new pickup( had a new truck once)and Id throw gravel at them , couldn't hit them just the windshield.....
 
A few years back a friend asked me to check his roof in the fall. I had to report that the roof would do better IF he'd keep his wife Goats-Off-It...

He said they wouldn't get on the roof!!!

Look out the window at that "New Caddie" you bought yesterday!!!

Moving your wood pile will keep them off your roof...
 
My friend's wife had a one Nice Pet Doe that his Men could-not-keep fenced in...
On this Day His wife was in the hospital _ when he said - I'm going to Kill that SOB if you don't get her out of here":(

Two day later I went to visit her in the Hospital - when he walked in she throw a flower put at him saying - That Ba*tered Killed my Goat :mad::mad: - the fighting went on for months but he Did-Not want the goat back.

I told her "Goats are Horney if you don't take care of that They'll run Off "

A few days later V_Key did not close a gate good - the goat got out - went down the road and into a Country Store - the "Dog Catcher" took one look and said - "That's Candy's Goat" :!: :!: :!:

He said "The Make-up Sex was great :shock: :shock:
 
Our help leaves the 29th.....It's going to be soooo quite... Hubby will mope around here for a week trying to adjust.... And I will be back on the road hauling our son back to school... whoopeee :roll: I guess we are one day closer to may jody..... :(
 
leanin' H said:
So far you've managed to offend Mormons and lowlife fence builders like myself. I can't imagine why ya don't have a job! :???: Good luck I guess.
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I sounded pretty snippy after re-reading what I wrote and I didnt intend to be that way. What I meant was, I have done more than a few jobs to feed the family that werent too dang fun. You probably have done as well. Hope ya find something that works out great for ya! :D As far as the 4 wheeler goes Gcreek, only when the horse wasnt handy. And I have NO IDEA what Jody is talking about with the goats!!! :P :shock: :lol: :lol: Justin might know but I sure don't! :wink:
 
no harm done, I'm a big-boy, I can take my lickin's when i know I have 'em comin, and I won't duck my cumuppances when I know they're well-deserved...

...and as I mentioned earlier, in order to keep from goin on the Gov't dole (unemployment) and to avoid movin into the mens shelter in Casper, I drove all the way up to south-central montana to wash dishes for minimum-wage + small room to myself, for as long as thier fishing/boating season lasts. This is merely a 'port in the storm'...till the economy gets better, or till my cell phone rings with a proper ranch-job. God knows I've contacted so many, and pounced on alot of ranchers I've been hitting hard over the years...something's gotta come through.

If not...well then I guess I can find another guest-lodge somewhere to wash dishes for, shovel snow and stack firewood for, till calving season starts up, when I have a better chance to show what I can do for a rancher...I can be good help, to the right kindof people who need it.

I know I'm far from being the ONLY one goin through ruff time$.

...I just like to come in here ever so often and shake the branches, to see if anything'll fall down, that I can work with.

Ya don't get anywhere in this world, unless you're willing to stand up and make some 'noise' every so often.
 

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