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You guys are getting all the rain and up here we can't even buy a decent rain. I'm thankful for the 2/10ths we got last week, and maybe 1/2 inch from the storm before that. I finally got water running on the fields monday.

Out on the Red Dessert they figure 35-40 acres per month. I still need to get out to the ranch to check fences; there is one place near the old railroad siding that the snow drifts over and breaks the fence down in several spots, the rest is not so bad but still needs to be checked.

The thing is with those you wish would die never do, they are just two tough and onery. Dad had a mare that he tried to ride to death, but she was just to tough and outlasted him.

Old Ben Robert out on the Sweetwater here in Wyoming always said he would rather have two skinny cows than one fat one. He started with nothing and ended up with a ranch 30 miles wide by 90 miles long. He went from Shoshoni Wyoming almost to Casper, and almost to Wamsutter Wyoming. There was...

It has been in the 50's the last several days, the snow is almost gone. Our driveway is a mess; needs a bunch of gravel added to it. We are supposed to have a 50% of snow for tomorrow.

Each individual has to make a choice whether to buy replacements or raise their own depending on how they do their operation. Maybe if I was not part of that over-the-hill gang, and had a place for heifers I might consider raising my own as well. At this stage in the game is does not make...

I don't retain heifers for three reasons. I don't have a place to keep heifers, I just don't see the value in keeping them, and I just don't want to calve out heifers.

Anything above zero is good.

We got rain the night before last, then it turned to snow, and I was making ruts in my field when I fed. I noticed this morning that a lot of the hay I fed got trampled into the mud. At least the ground was frozen this morning.

I wish I had done that with my bred culls.

One year we had a cow that had a sliced tongue, it was almost all the way across the width of her tongue. We took her into the vet, and the vet really didn't know what to do. We had him cut it off the rest of the way as there was not much holding on. She lost about two inches of her tongue...

Tuesday morning we had -37, and I think we might have made 15 for a high today. It is looking like we are going to be back into the 30's next week.

My uncle had one tied in the open trailer he has, and she jumped out. She was choking herself and they have to cut the rope. It was a brand new lariat that my uncle had just bought; he was not to happy about his new rope needing to be cut.

50-55 is nice working weather here. 110-115 I'm looking for someplace cool.

I got caught with my pants down last year. I had my feed tractor gelled up even though I was running blended fuel, so this year I added an additive to my fuel. A buddy of mine didn't and his skid steer gelled up.

There is a guy just down the road from me that calves in January, and has several calves on the ground right now. He at least has a calf shelter for them to go in.

We had -34 when I got up this morning, and by 10am it was up to a balmy -24.

One time when dad worked for Warren Livestock the new owner told him to take some two year old steers to a pasture that the company always went to later in the year after the larkspur blooms were done. The boss told him to take them up there and not look back. A week later dad sent someone up...

You got to watch out when dyeing, you might not get the color you want. When dad was a kid it was hard to get shoes during the war. The only shoes they could get for dad were white girls shoes. They tried to use black shoe polish on them, but it turned the purple. He said white was better...

It's looking like a high of -5F and -20f for a low, and by Wednesday back to 30 above.