Vernon and I went for a drive this afternoon just to get away. If we stay here, we tend to find work, so a drive is a good option. We headed towards our Mesa Pasture, the one burned in the wildfire last year. I still have not been all over it this year, just to…
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Questions and Answers – August 2013 Edition
LightNING and rain passed north and south of us… Here’s hoping for no fire calls! Let’s get going! Marilyn: Questions: how do the doggies react during thunder and lightning? how did you select the name, “Dally”? Lucas was not scared of lightNING/thunder until I got Elsa. Elsa, as an Oklahoma dog, was SCARED of…
Fire Starter
I canned the pitiful Minute Movie I WAS making, and replaced it with this one. Though this movie is much longer, this thunderstorm was IMPRESSIVE. Notice some things: My camera fades in and out of focus… I apologize for that. Some of the best lightning bolts are out of focus, but I left them in…
Refill That Tank
Today I worked a smidge on a Minute Movie from the other day… I managed to catch a lightning strike out towards the badlands on film… and oddly enough, the guys spotted a fire out that way this afternoon. I’m sure it’s not the same one, but I thought it would be a good tie-in….
I’m Grateful
For the past few days, thunderstorms have rumbled through… bringing a bit of rain, too much lightning for my taste, and winds up to 50 mph. From the Studio, it looks like this over our oat field. The moisture is GREAT, July has been very dry right here… though other storms have gone around us….
Questions and Answers – October 2012 Edition
Well, I’m cruising along this evening, thinking I was forgetting something… la-ti-da… Then I set down here and it hit me! Q&A! Argh! TOTALLY forgot about it until just now… so let’s see how many I can answer before I fall asleep! Sara: Is there ever going to be any Lucas puppies again?? Oh,…
August 2012 Vlog
I decided to leave off here… Wonderful ending, eh? Good grief, I am such a dork. I missed a question… Have you done anymore welding? No… but I’m planning to! It’s fun! Thanks for the questions, guys! **** August 18, 2011 Nowood Metal Art August 18, 2010 Wordless Wednesday – “My Space” (def. NOT wordless)…
New Country
I went with Vernon this afternoon to prepare for moving our cattle on Thursday. Since the Mesa Pasture burned up in our fire, we had to go looking for extra grass… and we found it! I haven’t been up there until today. We put some salt out to help the cows settle in… they LOVE…
Stop
I apologize for last night… I sat down to write and poof! no internet. OH, YAY. I just LOVE when that happens. So, I was blessed with a “night off”, although my half hour of pitiful troubleshooting should count for *something*! Meanwhile. Vernon’s been reworking a tiny reservoir in our mountain pasture… this time he’s…
Breaks My Heart
I took a drive through the neighbor’s pasture, helping him out a tiny bit. Remember our “little” 4,000 acre fire? Well, it actually burned more of this neighbor’s pastures than ours and the view from the “other” side of Otter Creek Canyon was amazing. (There was a definite moonscape feel to this formerly grassy pasture)…
Initial Attack Force
Yup. Again. And again. And again. Three fires around Ten Sleep today… all small. All contained. Only one blaze this far south… and so my guys, although busy baling hay… took off once more. That’s Vernon and Brandon at the bottom of this shot, pulling hose. The first two guys on scene? aka “Initial Attack”…
Longmire
Just as I was sitting down to post tonight’s Longmire Baskets for the Washakie County Library Endowment Silent Auction… ka-boom! Lightning and thunder and minimal rain… which quickly meant, once again… FIRE. My guys grabbed their Nomex and the Fire Truck, and off they went. I manned the phone, calling neighbors, the county grader, and…