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We gave em 40 pounds today Sam.

They have tubs and all the straw they want.

Haven't bought any cake yet. Seem to be doing okay.


Hard to do anything but maintain right now.


Maybe you can't even do that when it's this nasty?

Yeah, they can easily go over 20 lbs. though ours get sold well under 3, and they all end up on the left coast.

Couple of dozen ended up in the canal a couple of years ago, and they are 20lb and up, now. The guys like to go out a couple of times a year with their steelhead rigs and catch one or two and fillet them out. Kinda our own high fence fishing deal, lol.

My neighbor just finished kidding 4H goats. They almost all ended up in the house getting dried and warmed up before being put back to mama. I don’t know how much 4H goats are, but it’s not enough!

It's a frigging cacophony from hell in the entry way during lambing season.

That's a good plan.


We were trying to put the weight on in Nov/Dec, ain't happening now!

Gawd almighty....they just changed it to 49 below tonight with 75 below wind chill.


75 below windchill all day tomorrow.


For what ever bad thing I have done...I am sorry.

You can stop now.

If I was nearer the town Church, and was still that sort.............................









i'd go say a Novena for you and light a votive candle. maybe even put a buck in the box

FWIW, I have never seen -50F forecast for Montana.

North Idaho..

It's been awhile since I lived down in Wyoming, but the 1st week of January, 1980 it was 50 below or lower every night for a week straight in Jackson. The coldest night was 63 below and warmed up to a balmy -37 the next day. We didn't have any electricity for 4 of those days. The wood stove was the only way we survived.

Man, I'm glad we didn't move to Montana, especially above the high-line.

You guys hang in there.

You’lls pipes ever freeze?

-30 in town. Friends on Little Popo Agie River a couple miles north of town are -47.

We only hit a -33 F this morning……..nearby weather at local airport (19 miles) is presently @ -33 , not sure what the low was, probably was a couple degrees lower than that!

Not as cool as I thought we might see. memtb

-39 here in Helena. Sounds like my SIL up the road may have frozen pipes to deal with...

34 below as I head up skiing near Donnelly idaho

currently 40 degrees and raining like hell. My wife's pool is an inch short of overflowing. The creek bed that is dry all summer is moving along pretty good with the water about waist deep. That forms a boundary between our place and one of the neighbor's.

The elk out grazing on part of our yard, and the neighbor's.. they don't seem to mind at all.

They were out yesterday, on what use to be a golf course, lounging in the pouring rain, like it was a sunny warm summer day. About 40 of them came over on my property and were grazing in the yard. Was funny watching one cow, trying to pull some palm fromes out of a palm tree in the back yard, on the inside of the fence. It would bite the frome and then was pulling on it to eat it, once it came loose. The palm tree was rocking like crazy, but it didn't deter the elk. She spend 15 minutes or more pulling on the palm leaves to eat. They were also nosing around in the area, I don't rake up the leaves on the ground Guess they were going after grubs or something. Was taking pictures of them out the windows with them 5 yds away from the house windows.

All this in a pouring rain....like it a clear summer day.

Makes me wonder what people are dealing with in Alberta or Saskatchewan, if its that cold in Wyoming.

You MT and WY guys live in some fine country but I don't envy your weather.

I grew up in one of Virginia's coldest county's and could count on my hands the times I've seen it below 0.

-37 this morning in Montucky

yeah, I'm not planning on going anywhere today either....

ain't winter grand!