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Jim, can your daughter take the old horse for a spin?


Old horses make great starters.




I was thinking $2-5k for a good 5-8 year old gelding.

No, I used to have to fight him to a summer fallow field and get the buck out of him....then we could go to work. I dont trust him with kids.


The summer fallow field served two purposes....tired the horse out....and provided a softer surface for me to land on.



Talking with my friend who has been watching the sales, it might be hard to find a decent horse in that price range right now Sam.


Bomb proof for that money might mean 15 years old.

At least thats what he was saying was around here.


Something that is not bomb proof probably goes for less.

'Bomb proof' is relatively subjective terminology now Jim.....grin






Speaking of 'bombs', damn we had quite a few 'grouchy' cows lately. Either it's the cold or they are all hopped up on too much alfalfa.


There are 3-4 cows that I will not even bother to mess with and another 5-6 where dad has had to grab a 5-6' stick and give them a whack or two across the head while I'm trying to give the calf a tag.

Haha! 296 chased the Wife up a snow bank this afternoon.

296 is an a$$hole...and is on the going to town list.


Some of the other cows might just have cabin fever like the rest of us!

Jim, we have a 'list' and keep notes on the grouchies!


An overly aggressive/protective mother can be hard to deal with but at the same time they will show no fear to coyotes. Nice to have a few 'crazy' cows in the herd.

A co worker is calving, his son was going to work one of the calves in the pen. JB says 'take a stick, that cow can be mean' Junior (a teenager) says "I got it". JB said OK and stood back to watch the rodeo.

Momma cow came after the teenager, JB yells Watch Out! and the teenager turns around and just has time to put his hands on the bridge of the cows nose. She promptly tossed his ass right over the pen wall.

Everybody is OK, but I thought you all might like to hear another story of how dumb the old man is and how smart the teenage son is!

Dale

On a lighter note the only white cow on the place had a calf last weekend.





Quite a few new black ones.

You gents be careful:

http://kfgo.com/news/articles/2018/apr/09/otter-tail-county-man-killed-by-cow/

Monday Night Chores :

Dang Paul! That is some very fine eating you got there!!

Damned right big chicken !

Chores done for the day. Wife is gone so Bean and I be messing around.

Is that Waylon I hear?!




Chores done here and my wife is in Coeur d'Alene all week for a work trip.


I might be drinking by myself.......


Cow footage from this morning. This one was only about a 5-6 on the grouchy scale, she was a circle'r not a charger. Easy beans.

A third hand would be nice for filming!

Helps to pretend you are a tie down roper at the Finals.

My wife is the slowest tagger in the world.

Yep. Waylon.

I was helping on bass and Daniel was a back up dancer.

Is your snow melting yet?


Hell our mud is just about already gone here.

Just making good mud now,.

Pond next to the house is spilling.

Frost is out, at least the first foot of it anyway.


Still more snow here than bare ground.....but we are getting there.

We are under a flood warning for the next few days.

Your stock dams should hopefully be in good shape!


We didn't have near the snow you guys did and pretty much everything soaked in. Very little runoff.



I wonder if Paul would trade steak for fillets?

I would take a couple fillets!


Well, better in the ground I guess.

Yes, I hope my ponds are not poisonous this year.


If nothing else we should have a green up and some hay and grass.

It's going to be late though.

Walleye should be running in the river now but I'm not sure where a guy could even find minnows. Da creeks are all still iced over!



Our turnout date is May 1st but I'm skeptical. We have enough hay to get us into mid May.....




My buddy live about 25 miles north and they still have snow. He stopped by yesterday and I asked how things were going. He said they had a good start on digging the air drills out of the snowbank.....