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,…
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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……
Wyoming Library Opening Reception
OK, so not everyone is on facebook, so I managed a quick video of some of my pics from yesterday’s opening reception at the Cheyenne Depot. it’s very basic, but you get the idea! Posting from my iPad is interesting, but I’m figuring it out! I expect tomorrow’s post will be weather related, as they…
Keeping You Posted
I left the fall colors of the Big Horn Mountains this morning, and ended up on the green high plains surrounding Cheyenne. I’m here with the Wyoming Library Association for our big fall conference. I’m sure you heard about the big floods in Colorado a few weeks ago, well, at the same time it was…
The Joke
Well, the plan was to head to Cheyenne today. The Wyoming Library Association’s convention is starting tomorrow. We had hoped to do a few side trips as all the library meetings keep us hopping and there’s no time to explore Cheyenne. You know, the State Museum, some antique stores, whatever we could find… My boss’…