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-34F ambient right now.
-55F windchill.
I don’t even know what that means.
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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I just went out and started the pickup. The breeze is a bitch this morning!
Cracked a hydraulic line on the bale bed yesterday and am praying it holds in there through today. Always something to worry about! Extreme temps just make everything harder and are harder on everything. I went over and talked to my cousin yesterday...he's got about 2,000 acres. I don't know how big his cow herd is. He said he'd be feeding 'til 1pm. That would take me a half bottle of WT...and I buy it in the half-gallon jug.
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Cuz and another kid got in the instructor's truck back when we were all in Vo-ag. Something is trying to [bleep] cuz in the ass and he pulls out a pint of Old Crow from under some [bleep] in the seat.
"What's this?"
Ag instructor grabs the bottle and says, "That's calf medicine. I go out to the pasture, take a swig and say, 'get well calf'."
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It means you walk backwards into the breeze or your face will start burning.
I'm not much for wearing an overload of clothes. Can't move in the marshmallow man suit!
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Speaking of yesterday, this was the coldest spot I found. ![[Linked Image]](http://i37.photobucket.com/albums/e78/montanasam/A%202017/IMG_3128.jpg) Holy crap! My new Ford temp sensor only goes to -40*..  You're getting pretty close to pegging the needle on that! I've had to break ice on troughs in minus 15 before, and for the life of me, I cannot see how y'all keep water flowing to cattle. Hell, it froze my water system lines 18" or deeper in the ground.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Is it known what effect this extreme cold has on the flavor of the meat?
If you put Taco Bell sauce in your ramen noodles it tastes just like poverty
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Is it known what effect this extreme cold has on the flavor of the meat? Once the meat is thawed.... none. 
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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Is it known what effect this extreme cold has on the flavor of the meat? Gives a whole new meaning to the quote from McConaughy, "...it'd be a whole lot cooler."
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dairy is just another way of saying you do nothing but work, every day, all day Amen and make no money doing it from my experience. I was a Kid but never seemed like it anyway.
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dairy is just another way of saying you do nothing but work, every day, all day Amen and make no money doing it from my experience. I was a Kid but never seemed like it anyway. A friend of mine and his brother grew up on a dairy. They absolutely could not wait to leave home. He doesn't speak of those years with fondness.
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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House is cold this morning!
I am MAGA.
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it was so cold here in Gainesville, that I had to wear socks with my flip flops. 
Sam......
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Really enjoy the posts Sam and Jim. Keep 'em coming
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it was so cold here in Gainesville, that I had to wear socks with my flip flops. Lol. Left a couple of beers on the front porch. They nearly frooze!! Calling into work today. Anybody got the number for FEMA?
“Life is life and fun is fun, but it's all so quiet when the goldfish die.”
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OK. I take it back. You guys can have that. I'll come visit in the summer!
The deer hunter does not notice the mountains
"I fear all we have done is to awaken a sleeping giant and fill him with a terrible resolve" - Isoroku Yamamoto
There sure are a lot of America haters that want to live here...
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Hydraulic line blow out......check
Roll bales by hand.....check
(half bales anyway, I could at least get them halfway rolled out...)
Heating element malfunction.....check
Frozen waterer.....check
Back in the house with a whiskey....check!
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Oh yeah Richard!
The frozen waterer will have to wait until tomorrow. Of course it was the element that goes down into the ground and in order to change it out you have to remove the top of the waterer... Pain in the ass and it might be dark by the time I got done so I called da boss and he said to just let the calves water out of another pen. Pain feeding them that way but I made it home in time to watch the Rose Bowl....
Downloading some super-whiny vids. I can really cry when chit breaks down......grin
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Do you use a low wattage heat tape on the line coming in Sam?
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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Hydraulic line blow out......check
Roll bales by hand.....check
(half bales anyway, I could at least get them halfway rolled out...)
Heating element malfunction.....check
Frozen waterer.....check
Back in the house with a whiskey....check! Weather like that will sure let you know where the weak links in the chain are. Just think.... before too long, it'll be hot, dusty and dry again! 
Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla!
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