Category: The Ranch

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You know it seems like lately that it is one thing after another. We had the blizzard which caused us some problems moving around and once we got moving around two generators I was pumping water for the cattle with were so iced up that they would not work. They are still in the shop…

Well like <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/12/29/build/local/30-snow.inc">everybody else </a>I am digging out from the blizzard. Got a start yesterday and will be done with the majority of it I hope tomorrow. It doesn't help that the NWS is <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/12/29/build/local/50-moresnow.inc">forcasting more snow</a>. Nowhere near as much but worrisome since I haven't finished digging out from this one yet.…

It is an interesting mix of stories in the Billings Gazette today. First we have a <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/12/28/build/local/30-snow.inc">story about the blizzard </a>we are currently experiencing and how highways all over eastern Montana are closed because of it and then we have a series of stories(<a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/12/28/build/state/30-drought1.inc">here</a>, <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/12/28/build/state/70-drought2.inc">here</a>, and <a href="http://www.billingsgazette.com//index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/12/28/build/state/70-drought3.inc">here</a>) on the continuing drought…

Montana weather is always changing and you never know what it is going to do. Yesterday morning I looked at the weather from the <a href="http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/Billings/index.shtml">NWS</a> and they said we were expected to get 17" of snow starting right away. I had planned on starting to feed the big bunch of cows hay this morning…

Not much has changed lately with the feeding of the cattle. Sheer routine has increased the pace we are able to do it. If the cattle would just decide to come in to feed we would have it made. Since they are slow to come in, I make the assumption that they are getting plenty…