Just a couple hail stones at my house as a huge storm passed east of here. Our SE pasture was white, but a swath further east got hit hard. Lots of broken windows, etc. I've never heard a storm roar like that as it went by.
Pic. is at neighbor's house.
I can blame whoever installed the IVF frozen embryo in this cow for putting it in upside down with its head back. It took 45 minutes of manipulating it to get it straightened out so we could pull it.
Can’t stop laughing. My wife’s liberal WA cousins are scheduled to fly to BZN and visit next week. I’m not allowed to talk politics when they’re here. Now it turns out Trump is scheduled to arrive in BZN the SAME afternoon. 😂😂
All done shipping calves. Only 2” of snow when we loaded but 6” now. Roads were horrible and worse coming back. I hope the semis have a safe trip to Iowa. Calves weighed really good.
I’m not sure if I should call it a little truck or a big pickup, but for 1/4 the price of a new pulling pickup, it got all the cows moved home from their winter quarters.
Checking the irrigation headgate and getting a few more miles on the Wyoming horse with no name.
A gust of wind is making a pine pollen storm on the mountain.
I calved for many years in deep snow country with strong winds. My snow wall windbreak was mandatory. If you have snow, you have plenty of material to build windbreaks. 10' to 15' high and ¼ mile long can shelter a lot of animals.
Well, 30°, 30 mph wind, and the snow has just arrived. Away I go in my complete winter suit with ski goggles to take a bale of hay to the cows/calves to get them in the willows so I don’t have to worry about them all night.
Tough day attending the funeral of a snowmobile buddy, hiking buddy, camping buddy, and traveling buddy who I talked into starting his own excavation business in 1978. He was an outstanding pillar of the Wilsall community as shown by the 6-700 people attending.
Paradise Valley, from the lower pasture at the cow’s winter quarters. About 2/3 done calving. Great birthday dinner w/the in-laws. Starting out the 70s right.
3rd upside down calf, but only 10 minutes of “dumpster diving“ in fluid and getting covered in s#|+ I got it turned and pulled and all is well.
Another look down the Paradise Valley, heading home to sunset on the Crazys.
The snow is getting deeper. Cleared a path to get hay to the horses with the sidebyside. Got to run my neighbor’s brand new snowblower. He left AZ this morning headed home. No snowmobile vid today. It was snowing so hard I couldn’t see anything. 8” last night. 8 more tonight.
All the cows are fed and nestled into the willows. My neighbors get home tonight so there’s more snow blowing today. He has nice equipment. First time in my life I have fed cows with a tractor that has a cab.
Well, NOAA says rain tonight and a winter storm warning for Tuesday night and Wednesday, just in time for calf shipping. I need to tell Skippy that this is probably the last of his swimming for this year.
Just a few elk this morning on the way to feed the cows. 6” of snow and still snowing. I hear the Bozeman Pass has been a mess all night.
Two years ago today we had 8” of snow so I guess thing are extremely normal.