If you are here tonight Sam, we need some pictures! Please, I for one am tired of all the gloom, and doom.

Richard, sorry to say but it's a damn mess here!

Thawed out, we made big ruts and now it's froze up again(sorta).



Needless to say no new pics of anything remotely cool.

Spring time picture for you poor suckers in the north... Almost grazing season here.
[img]http://imgur.com/a/Ma5LEmg[/img]

That's as good as I can figure out on short notice since Tinypic went down... Or i assume it still is.

Thats 4 baby cottontails, 2 pairs snuggled together.

It's a mess here Sam, 3 inches of snow over mud. I can't find the picture of feeding cows this morning.

We went to the Kenny Angus bull sale yesterday. We bought two bulls, $5200, and $4000. I took pictures, but to lazy to load them.

The markets are in the tank. The Dow, and cattle markets are bad, the worst is grain, I need to raise some cash, bills you know.

nice picture

Maybe I can scrape up a few.

Nice! Thank you.

Damn Canadians. lol
Nice pics Kenny

Wabigoon, I hear angus bulls make fair hamburger, ship to southern calif and make a fortune. we just put a 2 year old in the freezer, my cousin sent pictures of empty shelves in Los Angeles. he wants a steer cut and delivered. told him pickup only! not worried about the kung fu flu as much as I am the people down there,

Invoking Sam's name always gets the ball rolling.

LJ, don't let Jim know where those bunny rabbits are hiding. That's a Hi-Line happy meal right there!




Richard, good luck with the bulls, hopefully they have an even temperament.

Thankfully about a year ago I bought new front tires for the bale processor tractor, found a soft spot last Thursday and sunk down about 2 feet.

The ol' yuppie tractor was grunting!



Sweet pics Kenny!

It was semi blizzard here this morning and a couple hundred geese were hunkered down where we've been feeding. Drove within 50 yards and they didn't bother taking off.

Here's one from this week. no mud in sight

Stalker, I believe you, not feasible however.

Ben, always good to read your posts.

That's a good one Ben.

Your boy is getting to be a little man!

That is a good shed Ben, mostly hay storage?

Stacking 2 at a time or using a telehandler?

I've been quietly bringing the bunny back around me Sam. Funny how the guys here that cry cause there arent any to hunt are the same guys that give me grief about leaving brush piles after clearing fence rows. Someday I might get another Bassett to run.

A cowboy song for sure.

A couple more in the Beartooths

Those are great Kenny, have more? Calendar material.

We keep steers in it and store some hay in the one end. Stack the top two at once with a special set of pallet forks.




He's been busy at work lately since the weather's been better. Changed a wheel bearing and mounted a set of tires on the skid steer, and a truck tire on the mixer.

Great looking cattle, they look well fed. I like farm dogs.

[quote=kennymauser]A couple more in the Beartooths




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We have a sickle mower in the family. The only hay cutter G pa ever used.
A cousin - another G son - has it now.

Memories !!

Thnx kenny

Thanks wabi, here is a few of my grandfather (mother's side) at his homestead, with a buck, and on his new tractor with my grandmother and a neighbor kid.
Homesteaded in 1910

LJ, you might like our mess. We have a pretty big brush pile with a few rabbits around and it isn't gonna get burnt any time soon if ever.

Priceless, thank you.

Turn the sound off, wind noise is horrible. More less trying to show my vet the herds body condition after grazing most of the winter. I think this was March 1 or 2. Most of these were purchased last year and had a rough summer after the diet change.

Those are great pics, KM......and kaywoodie.

Thx

Thank you all, I would be good if our friend Big Jim Conrad would join in.

Ben, I am beyond jealous of all that concrete!

Really nice setup.


Super pic as well.






Kenny, homestead pics are uber...

Oh ya, great pics! That farmall is a dandy!! Thanks for posting those.

And evening sammo, miss ya brother!

KM,
Is that the Melville church?
Happy Trails

Just WOW! Love these!!!!

Bob, I'm lost as to the sweeter, the young lady, or the puppy. Both cuter than bug's ear.

Off the front porch this mornin, I’m ready for spring..

Thats my Emma Grace! She’s a sweetheart. Thanks Wabi

For Sammo...

I wonder how far he had to go to collect the trees for that cabin. And, get the fire wood to heat it! Great pictures all.

[quote=kaywoodie]



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I'll swear ! There you go again, corrupting the younguns !



GREAT pix, all of them.

Good music to go with it all, if only I was man enough to stay awake till this thread plays out. Thanks all you good folks.

[quote=HawkI]

For Sammo...
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Dang ! I miss Waylon. ! ! !

KW, those were sweet pics, nice!



JMan, howdy, hope all is well!

Your snow looks a little more damp than the flurries we had this morning.



Hawk, just jammed out, hadn't heard that one!

Just about my bedtime, don't let me slow down the fun. we need to do this more often. Good time, good fun. See you good folks in the morning, the Good Lord willin', an' if the creek don't rise.

Wabigoon has left the building.

Never heard that one. Sheesh...

Nice picture, I need to get my grandkids doing that!

Richard, this has indeed been a good get together.




Hawk. JC was ripping on Waylon hard.....

Downright mean!

This the St. Olaf church south of Red Lodge, about where Volney Creek and Red Lodge Creek join up . It is still in use one Sunday a month and for special occasions.
I think I have seen the Melville church. Is it near the Lennop church? Them old Norwegian churches are usually pretty similar.

Ken

Arkansas' Tallest Mountain







Christmas 2019








Look Close, If I hadn't seen him lay down, I wouldn't know he was there !
Mama was on the other side, he couldn't get thru.

Never liked Cash much anyway. That song says I was right!😁

They were roommates at the time, and being Johnnys roommate AND having a song about him helped immensely.

kaywoodie, Man, that rendezvous picture really brings back memories. Where is it? I used to go to several a year around home and down in Wyoming .

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YE HAW !!

This is one of my FAV pic.

During season, this little fella fed in and out of the brush several Xs. When I thot it was gone--> back! ha

Thanks for the pics y'all.

Straight up player!


Who was that little honey on the keyboard?



Peace out.

I'm pulling a Richard and calling it a night!

The chick on the board is Jessi.

Hawk

I never saw that vid or heard that song.
THNX, listened 2Xs.

jwall,

Roll down the windows and throw this one out there, loud.

There aint no kick ass songs like that about Iowa.
This is about as good as it gets..

I thought it looked a lot like her.

KennyMauser,

That was last years Rocky Mountain National. Looking east from our camp. Up just east of Gunnison.

Man!, you men still going with an all night party! I'm too old to keep up with you youngsters. "Lefty, he can't sing the blues all night long like he used to".

[quote=HawkI]

jwall,

Roll down the windows and throw this one out there, loud.

There aint no kick ass songs like that about Iowa.

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or MONTANA !

Thoroughly ENJOYING>>>>>

Cracked out this morning and made some more AMAZING vids...

Best have more cow tunes.

Grampa had to go to the breaks on the Stillwater River to cut the pine trees. It was around 2-3 miles.

Bob - I swore I could hear
"I will love him, and hug him, and squeeze him, and call him George!

Richard, first calf of the year today, about 11 days early so right on time....

We found the new pair when we went to look for the strays. Two big coyotes in the area so I grabbed baby and hauled him to a better spot where the coyotes probably won't go. Had a great shot at one but missed. Have a strong feeling my rifle needs to be re-zero'd.





Scene on the way home.

One of the minorities in my area---Not too many Herefords left around here.

Kenny, time was a cow needed horns to protect her calf. I don't want to be anywhere near a horned cow. I had one of our polled blacks take me back in 88, I still recall the time I spent on her back, her idea, not mine.

Sam, that is a sweet baby, I'm glad we are not due for over a month.

At first glance I think that's Jesse Colter.

And one you tube version of that song has her listed on keyboard.

Geno

PS Oops, missed the earlier post ID of Jesse (Jessi?)

Take care Sam, we'll try hard to struggle on without you. Rest up good them cows will need more lovin' tomorrow.

LOL! That girl loves animals. They have 13 dogs now. I dunno how many cats, 6 horses, ducks, chickens da works!!!

It don't fit anything, I just think it's funny.

13 dogs?

she's halfway to the 27 I told my wife I want someday.

guess who ain't getting 27 dogs!

That kid's more adorable than the puppy.................and for a dog lover who's not overly fond of chillin's, that's a real compliment.

You are a lucky many Bob.

Geno

She did a good job cleaning him off.

Sam, those Dotard cows are funny!

Sure beats some I've seen.

Years ago we had a bad, bad cold front in central Texas. Several ranchers reported cattle drowned because they laid down on the frozen stock ponds and fell through.

One thing about this cowboying, it might be long on romance, short on profit, long again on work.

Keepin' clean clothes is hard.

Jim, dried up navel, must be a couple days old.

It is beyond ridiculous trying to get around right now. Either ice, boggy wet spots or frozen ground. Tractor or ATV is about it if you want to be safe.

I shut a few gates and need to take the chainsaw on the 4 wheeler and fix some fence tomorrow. Get the cows contained a little. It's shaping up to be a real mess.

We have a tiny 10 acre 'pasture' close to home where we calve out a semi load of 3 year olds and a 1/3 of it is covered with a couple inches of ice.


Ice, and mud and water everywhere on the river bottom.




Barry, I had to walk across and show the dummies that it was 'safe'....

Got water over the top of my Muck boots!

Another song, Gilbert approves this one.

I'm just in from watching gates. One steer crawled out the fenceline bunk, not so bad, the heifers, anther story, one bolted past me while I was holding the gate open, from then on it was a real rodeo. ten or so, back and fourth, at last we did get them all back in. Two thoughts, I wish I felt that good, and as muddy as it is, can't say as blame them foe wanting to get out.

Man...we are froze up HARD. 10 inches of snow blowed into soft drifts.

Richard, don't loose a boot in that muck!

It looked like that here last week, our little feed yard is a mudhole......




Jim, we didn't get your cold air yet, only down to 15-20F this weekend. Enough to freeze up the ruts but that's it.

2-3" of snow.


Weird time coming up.

We buy most of our bulls from Kenny Angus, Schaller, Iowa. Kenny's start calving in December, they must be down to just a few now. They use all that is needed for that way. A lot of sheds, heat, tons of bedding, a lot of time. I'm happy to let them do it that way.

Richard, I am jealous of the guys that have super buildings.


We just don't have room where we calve the heifers. Little bit of high ground next to the highway(at the home place) and we stack hay there but the bottom side is all suspect to getting a little water now and then.

Snow white. lol
So what's the deal Sam, is it ice jams in the river backing up the water? Sorry to hear about the Muck boot full maybe you should look in to some fishing waders the way things are going.

One more time for us old cattle bums.

Dan, we have a creek above us and the Missouri is the southern border. Couple highway and a rail road in between....

The creek floods and the river does tend to jam up and will back up into back waters than run for miles and are generally dry 90% of the time.


The ground is soaked from epic rain last fall.

And now it has kinda thawed back out.




Richard, preach it brother!

I don't want to seem braggy, but that reminds me of me.

Looks like everyone's pretty busy.

I locked the cows out of the hayfields today. It's warmer than usual and didn't want them munching on anything green. My brother spread a bunch of manure, didn't make any ruts in the field but the road looks pretty rough.

Sam-
It was -1F here in the Queen City this AM with several inches of new snow. But even with your crazy wx on the Hi-Line, I'm thinking you're not ready to move back to the Bozone, even if you could afford it... Hang in there - spring will get here by 1 June and then the forest/range fires will start a couple of weeks later!

The weather is cool here, that is good, when it gets too warm too early, the apple trees bud out, and get froze. The alfalfa can get winter kill, or need cutting before it's time. It's mid March, not spring yet.

Yeah, we have a month of winter yet, who knows when it'll show up.

I haven't been there since we moved 10 years ago.


Fun town but yeah, overpriced and getting really crowded.

No thanks.

Sam? You asked me to Preach?! Well, since you did ask.
You, and many other good souls have time to learn God's love, just don't wait too long. Enough sermonizing for tonight.

This has been a great thread, many good folks helping out.

Ben I think the cold air will hit you in 2-3 days.



Richard, I try to be a good human. Always room for improvement.

We're close enough to the lakes that they usually decide our fate. I'm planning on mud season for at least six weeks.

Ordered a back up pair of these yesterday.......grin



https://www.murdochs.com/products/mens/footwear/rubber-neoprene/muck-boots-muckmaster-gold-boot/

What's the word on your Dad's 6.0 Sam? They figure out what's wrong with it?

Gringo, it's been parked. I drove it out from under the trailer and that was it.


That was a good old pickup. Still might have life left.



It starts right up and runs, blows a little smoke but has a pretty loud tick.

It's good to have two pair so you can air out the sweaty ones.

Good night fellows, I need sleep. This is a good thread, thanks all.

Tomorrow is a new day, take a pic of something and post it.

Well guys, This is 'tomorrow' in Arkansas. It is like Sunday, Saturday & Friday.......

R A I N, R A I N, R A I N and every day this week! YUK
I dumped out 2" of rain yesterday and now there is .75" in the gage from last night.

This pic is from 2- 12 - 20 AND if I took another today it would look EXACTLY the same!



The water is OVERflowing and running SW to a drainage W and you can almost waterski !!
Our forecast is RAIN everyday this week until ? Friday ? long range forecast ? ? ?

SO I can't take anything outside for a pic in natural light. It can wait.

SORRY.

As soon as it's DRY enuff I'm going to start getting my horse back in shape. He's a retired rodeo roping horse. I'm NOT a roper but I use his rope experience to pull/drag some things out of the way.
He's a GOOD un.



ps: I and others are enjoying YOUR pix and videos. Keep it up.

Cheers up pic. This was Friday. I am outa there now...

That would make Frosty the Snowman shiver!

Much like Jwall it is monsoon season here in Missouri, but I'm still pretty sure I could have found a drier place for her to have that calf if she had ask. On the up side I'm 1/3 of the way done in 9 days. Good start.

Cool photos, huh!

Looks like a grave.

For the cow dog ??

kwg

Putting Whitey to rest?

A very special resting place. No words needed.

Haven't had to dig one in awhile.



Free to a good home.


Big ass beautiful horse with bad knees.



If I could find a butcher it would be a done deal. About November the hide would make an awesome coat, wicked rug about June.

Quarantine coyote just now.

Now that is fricken awesome!

Where the heck are your pants Jim?

He uses the white of his legs to illuminate the target.

Didn't have time for pants.

I was sitting in my dumpster chair and the kids spotted a coyote out the window.


Jumped in the muck boots, turned the night scope on and rested on the trampoline.

Welll that's a nice story for an early spring night!

Geno

Sam,

the old dog has a beautiful resting spot.

Geno

Beauty spot Sam. A fair bit south of there, I too have a good hound buried alongside that particular River.

Snow, kids, and shorts!

That's great!


Just got done shooting a big coon with my night vision, while wearing my robe and Crocs...

That .308 didn't do that coon any favors. Dogs had fun though.

I'll clean the mess up after it gets daylight.