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Winterized the two old Spra Coupes here today.

Blew out a couple hoses.


Tried to bale hay about 3 PM this afternoon. 30-40%, no go.

The very last hay of the year. 30 acres, maybe 50 ton, found a couple blue tongue deer out in it when I swathed it.

I wrote a check one time at the Cleveland Bar south of Chinook for 11 billion dollars.

Glad the old woman tending bar did not try and cash it.

I emptied the big tanker into a pond yesterday evening. Today I emptied another trailer into the dry pond next to the house that feeds the shallow well.

Going to park my fire truck inside and blow out the sprayer tomorrow.


As seen in the video I went south of Malta today.

See some guys trying for a third cutting along the way. Tough to get hay to dry this time of year!


I wonder if a person should maybe wrap those late bales and be done with it.


Those would be the first blue tongue deer I have heard about Sam.

Eleven billion you say? That sounds like a lot, even for a Montana rancher. Good thing you did not make the check for, say, One hundred thousand. By the way, just what did you buy at that bar?

Well, it was more like what I was "trying" to buy...........

Long time ago in my misspent youth!

The old woman was kind of the gate keeper....not trying to purchase from her directly.


That check was taped to the back bar for years, until they tore the place down I guess.

Jim, they tore down a bar they turned down $11,000,000,000 for?? That just sounds like poor business to me.

Must have figured it would bounce!

Bounce? I had not thought about that.

Just a little fun Jim.

Always liked that one.

Good thing she didn't. That much money would have ruined her life!!!

Selling the last of the bred heifers. Rancher in South Dakota bought them.

To go across state lines the last four digits of the bangs tag need to be written down.

I am sure they read them again and charge again......

Couple friends came out and we got it done.


Tail end of em....

Those look like rain clouds Jim. 👍

Shipped calves yesterday.

Big steers weighed 599, sold at 620.

Split load of small steers and small heifers were 470 and 450.

They were sold too light because my wife forgot to adjust the weights for the drought! She came down on the big steers but forgot to come down on the split load. Oh well.

We got to keep 110 big heifers and of course all the dinks and ones with nuts.

The buyers are not tolerating any short tails or frozen ears this year. Of course they did not say that when we sold them.


Piss on em.....we got to keep all the big heifers and they are worth quite a bit more now than when we sold the steers.



We preg tested the cows today. Actually worked pretty well. They were still stupid enough with grief that they went right to the corrals.

They tested at 4 percent dry. Very happy with that. Especially since we moved our calving date ahead to May first instead of March first.

They would have been breeding during the hottest, driest time of the hottest and driest year we have had in a while.

We did work our asses off hauling them water and electric fencing off small pastures for intensive grazing. I guess it worked out.

We did have about 60 breed to the end of February. Balls!

Bulls got out for a couple days.....and got right to work apparently.


We sorted off the drys and culls and might sell them Friday. A couple old bulls too. Wife is going to sell my favorite polled Hereford.

What did they weigh and what did they bring?

The concrete retaining wall makes one helluva nice crowding tub!


Those calves loaded up nice.



We tested heifers last week and came in about 6-7% open. 5% late. Which is fine with us.

Good news Sam. Nice to have a bright spot this year.

Big steers were 599 at a 1.52 a pound.

Light steers were 476 at 1.56 a pound.

Light heifers were 460 at 1.46 a pound.