Snow plastered against the deeply creased cottonwood bark. Sandhill cranes noisily announced their return. The back door of the shop is braced against the drifting snow. An antelope skull becomes gruesome with snow fur. And…
Tag: snow
Why Wouldn’t We?
Four degrees. Slight breeze handing us a wind chill of -5. Slick roads and ground blizzards. Of course, we went to town today… why wouldn’t we?
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. …
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…
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…
The Other Day
Rain. Again! For two days it’s drizzled and rained… There’s a winter storm advisory in the Big Horn Mountains with 8″ of *SNOW* above 8000′. Rain slows down some work… like farming, but it doesn’t usually slow down work like gathering cows. Which is what I’ll be doing tomorrow. And I’ll be wearing my chaps…