Category: The Ranch

I complain that I don't get any rain. Now a thunderstorm just went over and I get to complain again. Sometimes people don't realize that when rain comes that hard it dosen't soak in the ground and do any good. It just all runs off. That's exactly what happened in this case. Oh well it's…

<a href="http://www.davidmsc.com/">David</a> asked the other day on my <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000401.html">Boyz</a> post if that was the Hired Hand or me. It most definitely was the Hired Hand, I am quite a bit larger than he is. After I snapped the picture he asked me why I was taking so many pictures. I tried to explain blogging…

Montana is Thje Big Sky Country, or is it? <a href="http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2195331,00.html">this article</a> about pollution in the west does not mention Montana specifically but it sure reminded me of a picture I took at branding this last weekend. To give a little background on the picture it is taken on the fencline between me and the…

I was over at a neighbors branding yesterday, going back today for another, and last day, of branding, and afterwords while I was driving home and looking at the drought situation really made me think. Every time people in the area get together the conversation is about the drought and the saying I hear most…

Well, the Boyz of Summer (aka bulls) got to go to the hills and do their duty to bovine kind yesterday. Usually thet are a little more anxious to go meet the ladies than they were yesterday. Normally it is a run to keep up with them on the way out but this time we…

If <a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&u=/nm/20040602/bs_nm/markets_oil_dc">this</a> keeps up I might be forced back to using a horse and buggy instead of a vehicle. <br />n<br />nThinking about it, there is an example given in economics a lot about the rise of the automobile driving the buggy whip manufacturers out of buisness, and is given as an example of…

Brandings abound. We helped a neighbor brand Saturday and Monday, the same neighbor, and today I have another branding at a different neighbors. I get a lot of help from my neighbors at my branding so I have to help them in return. What I don't quite get is at these brandings I just mentioned,…

<a href="http://www.davidmsc.com/">David</a> had to <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000388.html">remind me</a> again about taking pictures. I truly never think about taking pictures so I never carry my camera along with me. It used to be cameras were big and bulky and you couldn't but with the new digital cameras they are getting small enough to pack around in your…

The battle with fed-ex has begun again. I was expecting a package and checked the tracking today and they say they "cannot locate the recipient." I spent 1 hour on the phone getting the run araound and I don't know if it did any good. To vent my frustration I sent the following e-mail to…

We moved some more cattle to the high country yesterday. The steer calves were still walking pretty tender after branding but they made it up there. It isn't a real long trip. To make it to the water hole we only had to drive them 6 miles or so. I need to get some water…