My daughter Victoria is a middle school teacher… mainly science and technology, and she used to teach some math classes. She told me once, a long time ago, if I remember correctly, that she had a student say, “I don’t need math, I’m going to be a rancher.” THAT didn’t go over well, because Victoria…
Tag: fence
Got It
As usual, we incorporated a bit of work into our “day off” of Christmas tree hunting. We have what we call a “lay-down fence” in a few places around our pasture. These are the spots that will grow huge snowdrifts over the winter. The snow will cover the entire fence and the weight of the…
Really, Truly
Wow. I can feel my legs. I mean, I can FEEL my legs… every muscle. We went to the mountain to let the fence down. Before I moved here, I’d never heard of doing this. As the winter snows begin to drift, the barbed wire fences are covered in heavy snow. The weight of snow…
Visit to the mountains
Our assignment, which we did accept, was to go to our mountain pasture and put up our lay down fence. Our pasture lays along a stockdrive, which means many ranches trail their sheep and cattle along the wide gravel road on the way to their individual mountain pastures. We have sections of our barbed wire fence…