Category: The Ranch

I know. Be happy with what you got. Don't get me wrong I am. I got about 1/4 inch of rain out of the showers yesterday and it changed my mood dramatically. It's pretty sad though when such a small amount of rain brings such a large amount of relief to not only me but…

Just a quick update. I had mentioned I was shipping some cows and holding some back, well I decided different yesterday afternoon. It came to my attention that PAYS was selling some bred cows at todays sale and I figured it was a good opportunity to catch the right buyers in the stands and shipped…

Now maybe I'm beating a dead horse about this drought but it is very integral part of my life right now. I had mentioned earlier that a <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000306.html">"panel of experts"</a> was going to be meeting to tell people what to do about the drought. Well I see the Gazette has an <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2004/04/13/build/state/50-avoid-drought.inc">article about…

One thing I really hate about the continued drought is the decisions it requires and when it requires them. I just finished kicking the pairs out in the hills today. Normally I would kick out everything that has yet to calve also and just keep the dries and stuff that lost calves in. The dries…

A while ago David had a post about <a href="http://www.davidmsc.com/archives/001197.html">Blogging Space</a> and while it has taken a while I have responded in kind.<br />n<!–more–><br />n<img src="http://nowherethoughts.net/pics/desk.jpg"><br />n<br />nI looked at his space and thought how crowded I would feel if I could not look out upon the world while I am at the computer so…

Today is a special day in my world. A little background information. I started the movable type portion of my blog on Dec 17, 2003. At that time I was all ready feeding cows and was up and going every day to feed. This morning for the first time since then I was able to…

Let me tell you something about the word cowboy. It derives obviously from the words cow and boy. Seems real obvious to the most casual observer. So what I would like to know is why when I hire a "cowboy" they think all they need to know about is horses? A horse is a tool…

Well I quit feeding hay to all the cows and have commenced "kicking them out into the hills." Now I know the whole place has hills on it but its just an expression I use when I kick them out of winter pasture onto fresh spring pasture. With the warm weather and what moisture there…

In a way today was a really bad day. I hoped and prayed that it would rain or snow but to no avail. Dry as a bone. Yesterday both <a href="http://www.davidmsc.com/archives/001182.html">David</a> and <a href="http://gatesofthemountains.blogs.com/weblog/2004/04/its_springtime_.html">Anthony</a> were commenting that the snow was a great April Fools joke. I wish it would have made a fool of me,…

Well I'm happy to tell you I got <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/000284.html">The Beast</a> running and finished farming the chunk of ground and went on to seed it. I <a href="http://www.nowherethoughts.net/pics/seeding.jpg" onclick="window.open('http://www.nowherethoughts.net/pics/seeding.jpg','popup','width=566,height=302,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0'); return false">planted</a> 120 acres of haybet barley so I can have enough hay for my cattle next winter. It always seems strange to me that I…