Category: The Ranch
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Busy, Busy
Busy, Busy, Busy. Busy getting spring work done. It's finally getting dry enough to farm a little so I am trying to get some of that done. I might have been able to get some done earlier but everything I want to plant this year, around 200 acres, has alfalfa with it and you want…
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Checking Fence
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/checkfence04222006?full=1'><img width='480' height='640' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/checkfence04222006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Had the Hired man helping me check fences today before he left. I let him fix the fence while I checked it. If you look real hard you can see the fence run down through the country. Taken 4/22/2006.</center><br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/fencecut04222006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0'…
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The Last One
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/lastones04162006?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/lastones04162006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The last of the pairs literally running for the gate to get out to the hills with the rest of the cows. We couldn't get these few to mother up right the day before but they finally did and are out. Taken 4/16/2006.</center><br />n<br />n<center><a…
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Cows Are Out
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/leaves04142006?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/leaves04142006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>The leaves are just starting to come on the bushes so spring is definitely here. We finished riding and taking the last of the pairs out to the hills yesterday. I wanted to get that done before the storm they are predicting hit today so I…
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Bulls Arriving
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Bulls/bulls04122006?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Bulls/bulls04122006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>I've been so busy I plum forgot about the new bulls arriving. Four virgin bulls from the Sitz Angus ranch. I bought them a while ago but they just got delivered, 11:00 at night on the 12th. I am going to have to talk to them…
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To The Hills
<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/trail04102006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/trail04102006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/waiting04102006?full=1'><img width='250' height='188' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/waiting04102006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>It's that time of year again. Feeding is over and the cows get to go into the hills. Yesterday we took the two-year old heifers out to the hills. It was a long, tiring trek, 8…
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Rain, Rain, Rain
Just over another inch of rain around here. It wasn't as bad as the weather service was predicting but plenty to make it miserable. We are just soaked to the gills. Water standing in sandy soil like you never see it. It's been more years than I can remember since it has been this wet.<br…
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Kicking Out
<a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/curious04042006?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/curious04042006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a>It's that time of year again to start moving critters out to the hills and off of feed. The green grass is coming along really well and the pastures I am going into have quite a bit of old grass to go along with the new…
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Weather
You read the weather forecast from the weather service and it tells you to expect .25 inches of rain or so. Ha. Starting Wednesday evening to Thursday evening I estimate we got about an inch of rain/snow here. What a surprise. Mostly rain until sunup Thursday when it turned into snow that lasted most of…
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Warmer Weather
It finally turned warm and spring like so it's time to get ready to turn everything out into the hills. I see a little green grass starting to poke its head through so it's time. I've had the hired man checking out fences in the pastures we will be going out to so that they…