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…
Throwback Thursday: Questions and Answers -October 2015 Edition, v.2.0
This was first posted October 23, 2015. Finally, I’m getting to the Q&A’s!!! Carolyn: How did the plastic tags work for weaning Brandon’s calves? I was telling Joe about it yesterday, but have either missed the blog saying how it worked, or you haven’t mentioned it yet. Carolyn, you didn’t miss a thing! I had asked Brandon to…
Wordless Wednesday: Fall Colors
For a jigsaw puzzle of the fall colors in Lord’s Gulch, go HERE.
Slightly Sketchy
I spent a couple hours at the well again. As I arrived, much of the drilling rig equipment was being hauled away. The guys were busy covering up the trench close to the well, smoothing out the piles, and planning for more trench work. When there are three guys working in concert, it’s amazing how…
Well… Some More
Well… some more! Today we laid some pipe. Two thousand feet of it! Lorelei and Quinlan came along to help. I walked along just taking photos. Especially when they headed down the hill! It doesn’t quite reach the corral, but that’s ok, we have more pipe. In fact, we laid another pipeline next to this…
Well…
It was interesting to go to the new well today. We were curious what the temperature of the water was. It turns out it is 59* coming out of the ground. It produces 45 gallons a minute. The trench is almost to the well… Vernon does great work!
Another Burton Generation
Brandon, accompanied by Lorelei, had just stopped by to turn off my water temporarily. Lorelei had mentioned she had wanted to go shooting her .22. She is in the middle of taking hunter safety with her 6th grade class and is enjoying it tremendously. While I was giving them some eggs, I received a text…