Welfare cases, and and old mower.

When I was out checking water, the cows were thinking it was time for them to get a handout. But no such luck. They will have to wait a while for a bite of cake if the snow holds off. They are wintering very well so far on grass, salt, and fresh water. This bunch will be moved to fresh pasture soon, but they are doing great where they are at.

The old mower in the lower picture is a remnant from earlier owners of this ranch. It has always made me think I should do something with it, but so far all I have done is look. It probably will stay that way. I need to get the dates off the pictures, as they are wrong.

Archive Tuesday

Thinking back to warmer days.

Nature's Portrait

Just recently we got the kids gathered up for their yearly Christmas card photo. We drove a short way up the road to some neat mud butte formations, that were all "dressed up" in mother natures finest. We spent a short time afterwards hiking around, and enjoying the beauty of things.

Christmas Tree Huntin'

The kids and I went looking for a tree last Sat. We went over to a neighbors on the Forest and found a nice one. We always used to cut pines, but the last three years we have found nice Juniper trees to cut down. It was a calm day, with just a tiny bit of snow in the air, but a nice day nonetheless. Of course, I took the camera along, and took a few photos of the country.

I think I have their attention.

This fall weather is something!

This area has seen some wild swings in the temps. lately. We had some snow last weekend, then it got down to just below zero on Sunday morning. By Tuesday morning at daybreak, it was well over 40 above, and had a daytime high of 58 degrees. That ate up the snow in a hurry. By early evening it was back down below 20 degrees, and we had light snow again last night. It has to be hard on livestock , but it does give us locals something to talk about! And the light snow cover makes for some nice photos.

Frisky Calves

The calves had quite a bit of life in them this morning! I was trying to gather all of them up, so as to feed them together, and they came running in. They sure were "feeling their oats", so to speak. I liked how the sequence of pictures turned out.

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