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. …
Category: Weather
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……
Amazed At What I Do
Yup. Snow. Here’s my house as I was leaving for work this morning. It is HEAVY. and WET. Branches breaking off and falling on our roof was our wake-up call this morning. It made you just a little nervous… Everything was sagging under the weight. Then, for kicks and giggles, I decided to take a…
Look at the Light
Holy Toledo! It is RAINING out there! It’s rained off and on since yesterday afternoon. There’s snow in the high country, and I wouldn’t be surprised if we had snow in the morning. Wyoming usually smacks you alongside the head as a simple reminder that Winter Is Coming. However, next week it’s supposed to be…
Mountain Wonders
I took Victoria and the boys up the mountain to meet Matt. They’ve been here the past few days, but it was time to return home. We timed it just right, each of our vehicles getting chased off the Big Horn Mountains by rainshowers. This rain is doing wonders for the mountain!
That’s Good
Aha! Amazing what I can find in my zillion photos… The wildfire from last year approaches the fence corner and fence line… Then here it is a day or so later… Those faint red lines are arrows trying to show where the fence ran. Let’s look a little closer… Way on the far left, you…
Happy Fence
I jumped in with Vernon and Brandon for a quick dash to our Mesa Pasture. You remember the Mesa Pasture… of course, you do! It’s the one that fell prey to wildfire last year. You can refresh your memory here. We now have enough grass on it to use it perhaps this fall… and even…