Category: The Ranch

The hired man was compliaining about the mud yesterday. My Darling Wife is also complaining about it. I think it's FUN!!! It has been so long since we have had enough moisture to make mud that seeing it is fun. With all the unsettled weather that is being forecasted we will probably get more too.…

With the drought hanging around any little storm deserves a report. All the storm report is good news, right here at the house we got around 2-3 inches of snow and it tapered off as you go south to the highway. This made my Darling Wife happy since she will have less mud to deal…

<div class="serendipity_imageComment_left" style="width: 110px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/calves03152005.jpg' target='_new'><img width='110' height='64' border='0' hspace='5' align='left' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/calves03152005.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">A dry place to lay</div></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_right" style="width: 110px"><div class="serendipity_imageComment_img"><a href='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/feed03152005.jpg' target='_new'><img width='110' height='44' border='0' hspace='5' align='right' src='http://www.sarpysam.com/sarpysam/uploads/feed03152005.serendipityThumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></div><div class="serendipity_imageComment_txt">Looking down at the cows. Feeding them close to the brush for shelter for the new calves.</div></div>I took some pictures yesterday…

Success: Finished seeding the barley, had just the right amount for a change. I always have a hard time setting the drill.<br />n<br />nFailure: Lost one of the heifers calving. Managed to save the calf but lost the cow. Besides the indignity of losing the cow, I now have a bum calf. Damn the bad…

If you remember I was complaining the other day about it being so nice and wanting to get out and work. Well I have been busy the past few days. It finally got the frost out of the ground and it was time to <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/pics/seed03092005.jpg" target="_new">seed the hay barley</a>. 120 acres this year. It…

I have been waiting, and waiting, and waiting to see a calf on the cows and finally this morning I saw one. Actually there were two new baby calves on the cows. They are supposed to start on the 10th of March but usually there is a calf or two on the ground before February…

Yesterday The ranch signed up for some of the new grassland insurance they are offering. Kind of a no-brainer with the weather the way it is. We are almost guaranteed to get a payoff on the thing. Heard a couple of interesting items while I was at it.<br />n<br />nOne of my neighbors to the…

Yesterday my father and daughter were talking and in the course of the conversation the topic of outhouses came up. Don't ask me how it came up but it did. My father said,<br />n<br />n<blockquote>You're lucky, when I was your age we had to go out to one of those little shacks to do our…

I can always tell a lot about the winter by the antelope in the country. When they disappear in the fall to go down towards the river country you know snow is on the way. When you start seeing them in the spring that means there is no snow on the ground and the likelihood…

I can't believe it's the last day of February all ready. I realized it yesterday as I was looking at the main bunch of cows. They are really getting heavy and are going to start calving any day now. They're bred to start on the 10th of March but early ones could start any day…