Category: cold

  • Chasing Hay

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cowshelter01112007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/cowshelter01112007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cows chasing after better hay on a cold morning. Taken 1/11/2007. </center>

  • Premonition

    I must have had a premonition this morning when I <a href="http://nowherethoughts.net/sarpysam/archives/2378-I-Must-Be-Deaf.html">wrote this</a>. How did it go?<br />n<br />nTractor wouldn't run. We worked on it for a couple of hours and give up on it and went and fed without it. The hired hand didn't think much of loading and feeding the 7 tons of…

  • Touch of Winter

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cows01112007?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/cows01112007.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>A little touch of winter hit again. The cows are sure enjoying the feed. I fed down in the brush with the wind blowing the way it was for some protection for the critters. Taken 1/11/2006.</center>

  • Clear Skies

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Calves/calves12302006?full=1'><img width='640' height='480' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Calves/calves12302006.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The calves coming into feed on a cold, snowy morning. Taken 12/30/2006.</center>

  • Cows

    <center><a class='serendipity_image_link' href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/cows12302006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' style="border: 0px; padding-left: 5px; padding-right: 5px;" src="http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/cows12302006.sized.jpg" alt="" /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The cows waiting for feed on a cold morning. Taken 12/30/2006.</center>

  • Cold Weather Report

    I guess I lived through the cold weather, if I'm writing this I am alive. It was down to -20 the other morning and we have had quite a few cold mornings. It's always such a fight when it's cold. Between cold engines not wanting to start, frozen water and cows thinking they are starving…

  • Miserable

    I have had a cold so bad for the last two days I feel like laying down and doing nothing. Now my voice is gone. I feel miserable. Hopefully I will start to feel better now and be over the worst of it. I am not a fum person to be around when I am…

  • Cold Weather

    The past few days have been something. The cold weather, down to 20 below, and the wind, windchills to 40 below, has really made calving miserable. Luckily I'm only calving the heifers right now and I do that here at the house where I have a barn to pu them in.<br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/misc/barn02172006?full=1'><img width='250'…

  • Blowing

    <center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/views/blowing02142006?full=1'><img width='640' height='427' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/blowing02142006.sized.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>If you look real close you can see the wind blowing the fresh snow on the hills. Can you say wind chill?</center><br />n<br />n<b>Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.…

  • Before and After

    <center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/Cow-Pixs/newmom02132006?full=1'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/newmom02132006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>New momma laying with her baby on the nice warm day before the cold and snowy weather hit.</center><br />n<br />n<center><a href='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/Cow-Pixs/newmom02132006.thumb.jpg'><img width='250' height='167' border='0' hspace='5' src='http://www.sarpysam.net/gallery/albums/views/snow02142006.thumb.jpg' alt='' /></a></center><br />n<br />n<center>The fresh snow, cold and cloudy weather will make things very interesting for the next week…