From the well, various pipelines will feed assorted stock tanks. Vernon has been busy digging trenches. We showed up to lay some heavy pipe. I don’t do much, fetching, picking up, and timing. Vernon and Brandon put in a T in an existing strand of pipe and we started to add another piece. Daniel brings…
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Redneck
Say you’re a redneck, without saying you’re a redneck. To prevent dirt from getting in the pipes leading away from the well, the guys have taped on old cans which may or may not have included a certain Banquet Beer. To be fair, there were Mountain Dew and lemonade cans as well…
Fingers Crossed
The cows had to leave the soft grass of the fields for the hard grass of the badlands. The day started cold with everyone in Carhartts and hats and gloves. As we traveled on, the sun did finally appear… My sxs comes in handy as people start shedding heavy coats. Miss Reagan actually rode her…
Happy To Do It
We had a bit more sorting to do with the cows today… I missed shipping our steer calves yesterday because I was working at the library, though I heard we had good help! So today we were sorting cows we are going to sell from those we’re keeping. Plus the ones that needed new tags…
Throwback Thursday: Ten Sleep Gash, v.2.0
This was first posted October 31, 2015. A little geologic curiosity has occurred near Ten Sleep, Wyoming. We seem to be the focus of national and international questions about the Ten Sleep Gash, aka Big Horn Mountain landslide, which happened south of town in the past month. It was first reported by SNS Outfitter and Guides on…
Wordless Wednesday: Be A Cottonwood
In a world of green pines, be a golden cottonwood. For a jigsaw puzzle of this canyon scene, go HERE.
Work Improvements
Gathered from the Double Crossing pasture, our cows, calves and heifers fit nicely into our new corral. While it’s not in its final form, the corral handled everything adequately, and we have a couple of ideas to add to it. Sorting into heifers, cows with calves, cows whose calves have been weaned already… it helped…
Sunrise Start
Sunrise found Vernon and I gathering the far ends of the Mesa Pasture. The grass in this pasture is fantastic. But it is time to leave.
Fall Journey
To put the water pump in the canyon away for the winter sounds easy enough… disconnect this and that, pull the pump and pipe out of spring high water danger, and a few minor adjustments… Getting there is the difficult part. One tree had fallen, taking another with it. Never fear, Vernon was prepared. Chain…
Best of All?
This week will be full of cow work, so Vernon and I decided to winterize and put to bed our little cabin and the water pump in the canyon. The first thing I grabbed was my trail camera. Almost 4000 photos were on it and it took quite a while to go through them all….
Go, Ten Sleep
It was off to Kaycee to watch football and three grandsons play. Jaxon and Wyatt played in middle school where they trounced us, 50 something to zero. Wyatt actually spent a lot of time on the sidelines since he’s a major player and they were giving us a chance. No good pics of Jaxon and…