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Today, while the flowers still cling to the vine

Soapweed

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Littlegirls.jpg

Little girls
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Not thirsty yet
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One of the fellers
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Boisterous boys
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Black bull
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Another black bull
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Another bull
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Wild roses
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On the summer range
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Where are all my rowdy friends
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Poppies and wild roses
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Honeysuckles
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Little yellow flowers
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Sturple pinkweed
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Red cows on the range
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Red or not, here I come
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Red heifer calf
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Gate to Round Lake
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Stringing wire
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The Kosmo Kid
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Putting on the waders
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Watergapper
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Looking back to see, if it was done properly
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The Kosmo Kid pounds in the last staple
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Good looking cabin way down in the hills
 

Mike

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Looks like some "Cannabis" growing in amongst those sturple ptinkweed.

Pretty good cash crop I hear. :lol:
 

Soapweed

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Mike said:
Looks like some "Cannabis" growing in amongst those sturple ptinkweed.

Pretty good cash crop I hear. :lol:

It isn't Cannabis. The "sturple pinkweed" was tongue-in-cheek for "purple stinkweed". It grows in the sandy ground around windmills and tanks. The seeds hang in pods, and look like peas.
 

Mike

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Soapweed said:
Mike said:
Looks like some "Cannabis" growing in amongst those sturple ptinkweed.

Pretty good cash crop I hear. :lol:

It isn't Cannabis. The "sturple pinkweed" was tongue-in-cheek for "purple stinkweed". It grows in the sandy ground around windmills and tanks. The seeds hang in pods, and look like peas.

Just joking. Although the leaves look VERY similar in shape and pattern.

I am just going by pictures I've seen. NEVER seen it growing "LIVE"! :lol: :lol:
 

Soapweed

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Mike said:
Soapweed said:
Mike said:
Looks like some "Cannabis" growing in amongst those sturple ptinkweed.

Pretty good cash crop I hear. :lol:

It isn't Cannabis. The "sturple pinkweed" was tongue-in-cheek for "purple stinkweed". It grows in the sandy ground around windmills and tanks. The seeds hang in pods, and look like peas.

Just joking. Although the leaves look VERY similar in shape and pattern.

I am just going by pictures I've seen. NEVER seen it growing "LIVE"! :lol: :lol:

There are patches of poor grade cannibas growing locally in spots down along the river. Neighbors mentioned spraying some to kill it earlier this spring.
 

the_jersey_lilly_2000

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Great pictures, but in the second one..the cow on the right....LOL she's huge, are you sure you didn't fergit to calve her out?

your photo titled Honeysuckle, that's a totally different kinda flower than what we call honeysuckle. Ours is a vine, that has really tiny delicate flowers, some yellow and some white. I'll see if I can find some to take pictures of. As kids we usta pick honeysuckle flowers and pull the stamin(sp) out thru the bottom of the flower, it always had a small drop of sweet sugary honeylike stuff on it, and we'd lick it off. We also have a few wild poppies here, and the Sturple pinkweed.
Thanks for sharin.

That looks like a brand new lil cabin.
 

Clarence

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Mike; The acepted common name for that plant is Rocky Mountain Bee Plant. It is also called Bee Spiderflower and Stink Flower. Like Soapweed says it grows on sandy disturbed sites. The morning doves like the seed from this plant. The plant Soapweed calls Honey Suckle is Hoary or perhaps Hairy Puccoon. Native Americans used the root to make dye. It is somewhat posionous but livestock don't eat it. These are also called Gromwells. The botanicalname for this group of plants is Lithospermon, This means stone seed. Indians sometimes used the seed fr beads.
 

Mike

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Thanks Clarence!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Soapweed:There are patches of poor grade cannibas growing locally in spots down along the river

Just how would you guys know it's "POOR GRADE"! :lol: :lol: :lol:
 

Soapweed

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
Great pictures, but in the second one..the cow on the right....LOL she's huge, are you sure you didn't fergit to calve her out?

She must have just had a big drink. :wink:

the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
your photo titled Honeysuckle, that's a totally different kinda flower than what we call honeysuckle. Ours is a vine, that has really tiny delicate flowers, some yellow and some white. I'll see if I can find some to take pictures of. As kids we usta pick honeysuckle flowers and pull the stamin(sp) out thru the bottom of the flower, it always had a small drop of sweet sugary honeylike stuff on it, and we'd lick it off. We also have a few wild poppies here, and the Sturple pinkweed.
Thanks for sharin.

That looks like a brand new lil cabin.

I'm probably wrong about the "honeysuckle". That is what we called them as kids, because there was a little drop of sweet stuff that could be sucked out.

The cabin is brand new, and the gentleman that makes them has them for sale. He is living in the one pictured, but it is priced at $22,500 plus tax. He does very nice work. I had met him a week ago, and he invited us down to see some of his other products. He makes beautiful log furniture, picnic tables, swings, etc., and can do anything on a custom basis.
 

IL Rancher

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We are overrun with ditchweed... It is the old commercial hemp from pre WWII days. They used to grow a lot of it around here for rope. I don't know anything about the stuff but I spray, mow, dig, scrape, and pray every year that we can kill it. The mourning doves spread the seed like crazy... Cows trample it down but don't eat it... Told that goats are the only option.

Would post pictures but don't want the feds coming by... In a wet year by July that stuff is 6+ feet tall.
 

Soapweed

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Clarence said:
Mike; The acepted common name for that plant is Rocky Mountain Bee Plant. It is also called Bee Spiderflower and Stink Flower. Like Soapweed says it grows on sandy disturbed sites. The morning doves like the seed from this plant. The plant Soapweed calls Honey Suckle is Hoary or perhaps Hairy Puccoon. Native Americans used the root to make dye. It is somewhat posionous but livestock don't eat it. These are also called Gromwells. The botanicalname for this group of plants is Lithospermon, This means stone seed. Indians sometimes used the seed fr beads.

Gee, I'm lucky I didn't kick the bucket from sucking Hairy Puccoon. Clarence, I wish you'd have told me 45 years ago that it is somewhat poisonous. :wink: :)
 

Soapweed

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the_jersey_lilly_2000 said:
That's not a bad price for a cabin like that. Does he build it on your site, or a kit?

He cuts his own logs, and makes the cabins at his location. The finished cabin needs to be hauled to a new spot. This one is 13' x 24' plus the porch. The best way to haul it is on a hay-moving truck with "live" chains on beams. The porch, which is 7' x 24' would be hauled separately.
 

Ranchy

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Yep, we call the "sturple pinkweed" either Bee Weed or Turkey Beans. Seems like bees are attracted to the flowers, and wild turkeys love the seedpods of them.

Great pics as always!
 

ranchwife

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Great pix, soapweed!!! :D :D Our honeysuckle grows in thick bushes that even Roundup won't kill!! :wink: :wink: :wink: I absolutely love wild roses and it is good to see pix of them....used to have a push of them growing here (story is, the hubby dug up a bush of them coming outta the mountains on our 2nd anniversary and planted them for me by the front door), til the folks that lived here for less than a year killed them off (along with 2 apple trees, a sugar maple tree and a quaken aspen tree all planted for our kids)!!
Like the looks of the cabin!!
Kosmo Kid should shimmy on over our way and help with some much needed fence repair!!! Pay top dollar to someone who can do THAT quality of work!! Heck, we'd get him over here, others would hear what a good job he does and they'd STEAL him from us!! Hmmmm.....let me think!!
:wink: :wink: :wink:
 
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