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Damn rain keeps f...King over my garden

C, good to see you haven't froze!

I was wondering how you guys were doing.

Not as cold down in the tropics, drove through town early this morning and the bank clock said 4F.... No calves out of the heifers last night which was fine with me.



You are correct on the fieldwork. Hell yesterday's market report said that the traders were taking notice of the frozen ground(late seeding) and spring wheat made a little jump.



Hope all goes well for you guys.






Hanco, never cuss the rain!

After we sorted the heavies off, there were only 11 of them, 5 of them calved.

Get the rest of them calved and it will be smooth sailing till May.



I reckon if it gets too late for spring wheat, I will plant hay crops.

Speaking of frozen !

Um, it's still really cold !

Coupla over slotters from a brutal Friday night.



22.5" slotter on a lovely Sunday afternoon.

Those sure look nice Paul, what lake?

The big 2 were from Route Lake on Friday evening, rest of the weekend was spent in Osborne bay, Eagle Lake.

Raining and schitty here for three days, my tomatoes gonna die for sure,

Holy crud, Jim! That's not APRIL!
I suppose that tractor is all shiny from being buffed by snow all winter?
Went over to Spokane, saw just ONE emerald patch of grass. Upper 40s here today, can really feel it.

Gathered Heifers, wormed them all, then trailed them to new pasture.




Ruby Sue the wonder heeler getting after them.


And Panther


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If I'm lucky maybe one of my kids can show me how to put a video up here.

Very good Ralphie!

How far are you away from green up?

Feeding cows in snow, in April.

Sonuvabitch Jim, you poor bastards are still covered up in snow!

It is 95% gone around here.

Hell it's 56F right now, I actually broke a sweat this afternoon climbing up a few grains bins while checking for bugs. Reach down in that grain about 5" and it was cold....




Ralphie, that is a NICE bunch of yearlings and a good lookin' horse as well!

Do you ever sell broke ranch horses?

I need to get another one. Don't ride that much anymore but when we do it's a 2-3 day affair and it's nice to have a fresh horse each morning.





Richard, that's how it looked around here last weekend, melting fast now!

Thanks for the update guys!

I think we might officially be out of the woods so to speak regarding cold temps.


There are a few peeling noses on the calves and some puffy ears. We didn't even bother ear tagging calves for a few days.


One poor little guy crawled a fence about 10 days ago(during a blizzard) and got hung up in a 'tree'. It was 0F the next morning when we found him. I thought he was dead. Hanging in the branches, totally exposed.

Hot boxed him for 24 hours, jug of colostrum.

You know it can't be good and sure enough he is limping around now and I might have to put him down, skin him and try to stick a bum twin on the cow. That's ranchin' and it ain't always exactly fun.


But at the same time if that's the worst of it we're doin' good.

I need some horses too Sam.

And maybe a riding mule.

Green up is anytime now. In fact there is some already. Cattle and horses are trying to inhale it out of the ground. We need rain and wet snow now. But I'm glad we don't have Jim's kind of April snow.

Thank you about the horse. She's 5 out of a percheron mare that I've since sold and the ranch's stud.

I don't really sell any horses. A buddy of mine did, but he's got a few kids now and they keep them pretty busy.

Jim, personally I'm really not a horse guy(or a cow guy......grin) but a good saddle horse is a joy.

Nothing better than cruising the hills all day on a solid footed horse(who doesn't play out).




You see ranch geldings listed on some bull sales but that's kind of a hassle, especially if you're not familiar with the outfit.

Ralphie, thanks for letting me know.

You know horses and I figured it didn't hurt to ask!

My old horse is about done.

I have not ridden him for years.


My daughter really wants to get a horse. She is 9.


Been kind of thinking about getting back into it some. Not that it will save me any money!




Friend of mine on a big outfit to the south buys bomb proof horses....and is good at it.