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Jim, glad to see you made back in one piece!


I always get a kick out of your co-pilot as well......grin



We actually got a little bit of snow, nothing crazy but maybe a whopping 3-4". And this year we'll take anything we can get!

Started early and chopped up around 50 ton of alfalfa for the feed yard and by the time we got done it was pretty blustery.

I went over and fed the cows and here is about 25-30 whitetail all bunched up and not moving. Get down the trail about a 1/4 miles and spy 3 coyotes. Of course my rifle was back in the pickup....

Pretty sure the coyotes ran across the river because I hadn't noticed but maybe 1-2 all Fall.









Time for some refreshing mountain spring water, and trust me, the mountains are blue!

Jim and Sam,

Thanks for posting this stuff. I miss my cattle a lot but there were times when, as you have demonstrated, they weren't the good old days.

Jim, that hombre riding shotgun, looks like he is a man of few words and brooks no nonsense!

Johnny, it's actually pretty smooth sailing here until the frost goes out of the ground. That's when the real fun starts!

This has been a somewhat cold year but that actually makes things easier. No mud or ice yet, everything has been froze up since about the middle of December.

Sam,

That was one of the few good things about our Nebraska Sandhills...you didn't have to fight mud too often.

Brrrrrr.
We started at 45 and it's dropping like a rock and blowing right now. I can't imagine how bad it is up on Marias. Wow. Power weather.

That said, we need a cold blast real badly to firm up things for logs. But ouch!

Johnny, our hills are a little sandier but we winter on the river bottom and it is gumbo central down there. Great protection from the wind and weather but it's a muddy sonuvabitch when things thaw out!





Dave, we started out at 7F and it's currently 5F. Would be pretty nice if it weren't for the breeze.



My neighbor about 20 minutes ago.

The snow Nazi, aka a bored farmer......

We've been roasting over here for the last month. Craving a hard freeze. So here it comes and I'm being careful what I wished for. My blood has thinned out a little.

I am going to have to plow my way out to my snow plow in the morning.


If I make a track down the center of the road with a loader tractor, it only takes two passes with the road patrol to get the road cleared.


Neighbor out south might plow into my corrals where I feed with his Steiger. Probably have to pay him a 30 rack of Busch light.

He dont work cheap.

You folks have serious winter.. It was 52 here today.. Don’t miss it one bit..

Aw, Wyoming gets real winter, too. I've been in the Rawlins country plenty of times when it's RAW. But the only time or two I've actually been scared for my life by weather has been on Montana's Hi Line. It can be vicious.

The wind finally quit.

It was out of the east at about 20 MPH for most of the day.

Wind is calm and we are at zero degrees. Kinda nice out actually.

Still very overcast though.

Its over my boot tops outside.

Time to start tomato seedlings!!

There always has to be one wise-acre in the crowd....

I hope a horn worm gets your seedlings - so there!!!

About 2 foot on the level this morning.

35 below for the low tonight and predicting 60 below wind chill.

Wind tomorrow but a bit warmer.

Lots of snow to move this afternoon.

Gotta be TOUGH.

Things got a good start on freezing last night. A little drifting, so I'll have to spot plow tonight (easier to spot traffic and see work). The slush is now rock hard ice with some sun-slick on top. The snowpack, probably down to ten inches average on the flats, immediately went to a firm, walkable crust. Excellent for me. Lost a tree last night, tho, and it shattered when it hit. Another mess for spring. Still not quite firm enough to haul logs, maybe tomorrow hopefully.

[bleep]. Nearly 60 degrees here yesterday. Windy though.

It was 55 up here yesterday. It is now 28 with a light dusting of snow last night.

Jim, that's about as bad as it gets, damn!

It was breezy here but not insane cold. Loaded the cows up with about as much as they can possibly eat and they looked full when I went over to shut off the water about an hour ago.

Looks like we're in the banana belt tonight, only supposed to get down to -25F with wind chills in the -45F range, a repeat of last night....


Good luck with that snow, drifted a little here but no too bad.




Dave, if you need some cold air we have plenty enough to get chit froze up!




Ethan, sun tan weather!




Ed, I just looked at the weather history and the 'mean' temperature for the last 55 days is around 5F.

Acclimation is a wonderful thing!


Topped out at a balmy -5F today.




Bred heifer trying out a little cow makeup this afternoon.

Pushing snow, and Jake loading the Oswalt.