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Tuesday, April 8. 2008

Dry, Brown



The dry, brown landscape that has taken over this spring. It's really getting me down. Nice picture though. DISCLAIMER. My Darling Wife took this picture. I'm having a hard time taking any pictures of the dry landscape. I guess if I don't take pictures, it doesn't exist. Taken 4/6/2008.
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Monday, September 24. 2007

Sorting



I spent the weekend sorting steer pairs from heifer pairs in preparation for shipping. We will finish the job today. I've heard it rained quite a bit in Billings and other parts of the state. We weren't so fortunate. The dry parched ground could really use a good drink right now. Taken 9/22/2007.
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Wednesday, July 18. 2007

Scary

Indicators in some areas have reached record levels

Veteran Bureau of Land Management fire prevention officer Pat Mullaney figures Eastern Montana is a week to a week and a half from the start of fire season.

Temperatures are soaring and fuels are drying, he said, and before long, firefighters catching 5- to 10-acre wildfires on their initial attack will find themselves building lines around 100-acre fires.

"Then it will be 1,000 acres, and then we're off to the races," Mullaney said Tuesday.

With predictions of an extended stretch of temperatures in the high 90s and 100s, conditions are approaching extreme, he said.


Hell, I don't have much more to say about this than what was written. For the next 10 days they are talking about upper 90's to low 100's for temperatures and it is dry and getting drier out there. It's real scary.

I've seen conditions like this before and all I can do is hold my breath and hope there is no ignition source. Some times we've lucked out there and other times we haven't. It all depends on the weather. Some cool wet weather would be nice but it's not in the cards.

Since this is a hill country one expects to find springs, but not to depend upon them; for when found they are often brackish and unwholesome, or maddening, slow dribbles in a thirsty soil. Mary Austin
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Wednesday, June 20. 2007

Out Of Here



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 tough calving season this spring. That's the breaks though. You have a routing of selling all the cows with no calves you keep it up and sell them. Taken 6/19/2007.
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Monday, April 2. 2007

Dry Place



These two calves at home found a dry spot to lay. Notice the cow on the far right. What she is up to is beyond but it sure is a funny pose. Taken 4/1/2007.
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Friday, March 30. 2007

Dry Place



The calves enjoying a dry spot to lay during a break in the storm. I would guess we had 12-16 inches of snow. The tractor you see in the background is used for plowing snow when it gets to deep. I haven't had to use it much in the past couple of years but it sure is handy when it does snow a lot. Taken 3/29/2007.
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Wednesday, December 27. 2006

Brown



A bleak, brown Christmas. Kind of depressing. Taken 12/24/2006.
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Thursday, May 18. 2006

Weather

Damn the hot, dry weather.

Weather gives fires early start

The fire season is off to an early start in parts of Montana, with the recent unseasonably warm weather helping dry out grasses and other possible fire fuels.


The past few days it is really starting to show that we could use a shot of rain. It's really getting dry out there. I thought for sure with my branding coming up Friday that there would be some moisture coming in. It always seems like if i scedule a branding it is like sceduling moisture but it doesn't look like it this year. Oh, there is a 20% chance of thunderstorms Friday night but the way things are going I won't get anything out of it.

Talk about a hot, dusty branding on Saturday. I am not looking forward to it. Damn the hot, dry weather. It's like we are living in Texas.

In Texas it's always hot, dry, sunny, not a cloud in the sky. Piper Perabo
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This heifer was so excited to have a calf she didn't know what to do with it. She kept throwing it around with her head and knocking it down she was so excited. I had to get in the stall with her and keep her occupied so the calf, who was really a go getter, could get up to her and nurse. The cow wasn't real happy with the situation but I managed it and the calf got a belly full of milk. Taken 3/81/2007.
This heifer was so excited to have a calf she didn't know what to do with it. She kept throwing it around with her head and knocking it down she was so excited. I had to get in the stall with her and keep her occupied so the calf, who was really a go getter, could get up to her and nurse. The cow wasn't real happy with the situation but I managed it and the calf got a belly full of milk. Taken 3/81/2007.
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