Today I kept trying to remember that nursery rhyme about the little crooked man… “and they all lived together in a little crooked house.” My studio qualifies. Like the problem we had with the window, the door, as well, was off kilter and out of alignment. Like the picture window, I decided to straighten it…
Author: Carol
Minute Movie: Out of the Snow
More rain and snow today, just when we were getting dried out from the last storm! I want to thank everyone who has shared, tweeted, and linked to my Atlas Blizzard story. It seems we are spreading the news and making people aware of the tragedy in the Black Hills. You guys are great! Tonight…
Questions and Answers – October 2013 Edition
Let’s go! Marilyn: Question: your dogs expend a LOT of energy when they are working. What do you feed them for optimum nutrition? Marilyn, I feed Loyall dog food and usually they are on just the Maintenance. If there is going to be tons of work, I’ll buy their Active Adult which has higher protein. …
Scream
I worked the Scarecrow Contest at the library today. We had 11 entries… this one that Brandon created won him second place! I really liked Megan’s entry of “Dorothy and Toto” as well! But here’s a photo that’ll make you Long Time Readers (and me!) scream with JOY! Yes, the window is IN! It’s dirty,…
Atlas Blizzard Links
Thank you so much for your response to yesterday’s post about the Atlas Blizzard. I am glad I could answer some of your questions, or perhaps, just explain topics a tad bit better. Tonight, I think I’ll just provide a few links that you may be interested in investigating. For details on livestock stress and…
The Atlas Blizzard
TEN THINGS YOU MAY NOT KNOW ABOUT THE ATLAS BLIZZARD AND CATTLE! People have been shocked that I’ve tweeted and posted on my Red Dirt facebook page that the Atlas Blizzard that stranded me in Cheyenne last week, has killed an estimated 60,000 – 100,000 cattle in the Black Hills of Wyoming and South Dakota. …
Wordless Wednesday – “Headed Downhill”
Cows and heifers headed downhill out of the snowy Big Horn Mountains, Wyoming.
Counting Our Blessings
As news comes out of the Black Hills about ranchers losing up to half of their herd in the Atlas Blizzard, we voted to bring our cows out of the snow and off the top of the mountain. They were happy, spread out and grazing some tiny regrowth from the moisture… but there’s another storm…
Slow Photo
A snowfence near Cheyenne shows how it catches blowing snow. They are now replacing wooden slat fences with “living fences”. Trees are planted in rows just like a snowfence, but the melting snow provides the extra moisture needed by the trees… unnatural flora for windswept plains. Well… the past few days… WordPress is taking forever…
Back to Cows
It’s nice to be home… I arrived just after dark… enough to see that my yard is now refilled with limbs and leaves… the first pile I had hauled off BEFORE I left! There’s lots to put back together… It’s that way across much of the state… the Black Hills were hit much worse than…
Buying and Selling
Well, it was a day of “Do we leave?” or “Do we stay?” The roads were closed at first, then opened, then closed due to a crash… We got a phone report from another librarian, who told us about a dozen cars were off the road, and travel time was doubled. We weren’t leaving in…
WyLA Ends and Atlas Begins
The storm blew in and it was nasty today. It has been dubbed Atlas by the weather guys, and it was STRONG! That’s alright, I spent most of the day in meetings anyway. Rich and Sandra Wallace were our children’s author guest speakers, and they did a wonderful job, each spoke about their latest books……