Thoughts From The Middle of Nowhere

Category: The Ranch

  • Busy

    I have been real busy lately, but productive. We have wrapped strings around about 400 tons of hay so far and we're not quite half done yet. Going to have to take the morning today to overhaul the swather. I noticed a broken frame member when we started but decided to keep going till it…

  • Moving Out

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Yearlings/yearlings06262007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Yearlings/yearlings06262007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a><center><br />n<br />n<center>Gathered the yearlings and moved them to a different pasture yesterday. I had two bulls with foot rot with them in the past few days so I decided it was time to pull the bulls, normally I do it the…

  • Cool

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/cool06252007?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/cool06252007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>Can you say, "not haying weather?" That's definitely the case here. Cloudy, cool, and high humidity. I haven't been having much luck putting up hay. I think I am going to have to start using the diesel to turn the…

  • Moving Markets

    You might remember from the pictures, that I had some cows and bulls on the market on Wednesday. I heard the market report the other day for Wednesday and heard that cows and bulls were up 2-4 dollars on that day in Billings. I thought that I was real lucky to hit the market on…

  • Get It Right

    This morning when I left house the National Weather Service was predicting a very hot day and the temperature was supposed to be 100 degrees. I thought this was a really good deal because I would really be able to put up the hay and make some progress in getting things done.<br />n<br />nWell, the…

  • Hay Bales

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/hay06202007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/hay06202007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>It's kind of fun haying this year. I am getting enough hay that I don't mind doing it. This field is going about 1 1/3 ton to the acre. It is my poorest field so it will only get better…

  • Out Of Here

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/drys06192007?full=1'><img width='640' height='428' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/drys06192007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>It finally got dry enough to ship the second semi load of drys, with some old bulls, out of here. I had quite a few more drys than normal this year thanks to the extremely dry year last year and…

  • Hay Down

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Farming/hay06162007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Farming/hay06162007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>We finally dried up enough to get some hay chopped down the other day. It's really nice to get the haying started. We were lucky over the weekend and didn't get some of the wicked weather, hail, that was just…

  • Dragging In

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/drag06092007?full=1'><!– s9ymdb:106 –><img width='640' height='427' style="float: left; border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/misc/drag06092007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A calf being drug into the branding fire at our recent branding of odds and ends. My Darling Wife was playing photographer here. Taken 6/9/2007.</center>

  • Dalmation Toadflax

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/flowers/toadflax06132007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/flowers/toadflax06132007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>I discovered this patch of flowers last year and was not sure what they were. Then last fall the guy working for me identified it, Dalmation Toadflax. Toadflax is a noxious weed that can really take over the country. I…