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....and the weather will change. I swear it must have done it last night. I was plowing snow at 9:30 to clear the drive for the truck that's coming for some yearlings this morning, and a bolt came out of the tranny linkage. I came to the house for a flashlight, stripped off 5 layers of clothes to use the little boy's room, blew my nose, etc, and when I went back outside the wind had shifted and felt warm.

In a matter of minutes we went from -29C with a -41C windchill, to -18C with a -25C windchill. This morning it's -15C. Timing couldn't be better as I've got to sort 50 yearlings out of 65 pairs. That'll be alot easier wearing alot less layers.
 
We moved the cows to fresh grass-baited them with a bale but they just went to grazing so they must of felt a change coming too. Are you goiung to need an armed guard when you take that yearling cheque to the bank.
 
Saturday 3/4 inch rain and some sleet on top of 6 inches of snow. Monday and Tuedsday wind and snow, the old snow was crusted and didn't blow . Wed was zero F with a high of 20F, Today -27F high is supost to get up to -4F
 
No complaints here, unless it warms up more-- it's about -2C (about +30 I think) . We don't have enough snow as it is, and I'd rather not have them drinking out of the creeks this time of year.
 
Went from -36 and a three hour power outage Tuesday morning to plus 2 today. We had no wind chill though, which is very strange for our area.

Alberta weather sure is perplexing . :roll:
 
Yeah we went from in the 80s this mornin, to 43 now....sposta be down to 29 tomorrow night. Kiddo's left headed to Oklahoma in shorts and flip flops right after Dinner. She called and said that the rain was freezin on the windshield in Waco which is about 3 hours northwest of here. . We got a nice shower as it was blowin in.
 
Northern Rancher said:
We moved the cows to fresh grass-baited them with a bale but they just went to grazing so they must of felt a change coming too. Are you goiung to need an armed guard when you take that yearling cheque to the bank.
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Nope, I'll be puffed up twice my normal size like a Banty Rooster - nobody gonna mess with me. :lol: :lol: :lol:
 
We need rain here in a bad way. We had a sprinkle with this latest "front" but need about 3 inches of a good long drizzle. We won't get it. It is around 85 during the day and about 65 during the night. I have lot's of space for you fellows to come and stay out the winter.
On another note. When we have a freeze or two anything outside (and inside) can't take it like your cattle do. These cattle are not accustomed to it so it is likely they are freezing to death. If you ever hear of the oranges in Florida are frozen then we are in a bad way with the cattle.
 
Well according to the NOAA Climate prediction center-- La Nina is setting in hard-- and is going to create wet and cold for the northwest part of the country and parts of the midwest over the next 3 months---with the southern half of the country having temps above normal- and the southern third from California- thruTexas- and across up the southern eastern coast back in dry/drought conditions.....

http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/

So far we sure have been getting the wet and cold...
 

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