Archive for March, 2009

Posted on March 26, 2009 - by Hubba

HH Vcast Program; Peanut

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Posted on March 25, 2009 - by Hubba

Buried!

By now anyone who is keeping up on Western South Dakota knows that a raging 36 hour blizzard kissed us goodbye yesterday afternoon.

We’re still digging out, and it’s not pretty.

On the plus side, it never got very cold and we didn’t lose electricity.

On the minus side, we’re getting reports of buried cattle.  We hope most of the reports are exaggerated, but we do know of one cow of ours who was buried and died.

I would provide pictures and a video, but I haven’t had time.  It took me forty five minutes to drive home last night, and a half hour to get in the house.

Hopefully sometime today I’ll get a little time.

Adios until then.

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Posted on March 23, 2009 - by Hubba

Calving Difficulties

While I was out feeding the cows today, the other kids were attending to the heifers and cows that had calved.  They had a very long, cold and frustrating afternoon trying to convince a bunch of calves that they needed to move, which reminded me of a story from years past.

I don’t remember what year it was, probably the late eighties.  I was pretty little.  We had had a big snowstorm, and I went with Dad to feed the cows. (more…)

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Posted on March 22, 2009 - by Hubba

ESN; Spring!

The weather in Elm Springs this past week, particularly on Sunday, was gorgeous. The Elm Springs schoolchildren enjoyed Thursday and Friday free from school, so that was an extra bonus for them.

Julie Trask visited the Marvin Anders residence Sunday, where she had a nice chat with Marvin, Carolyn, Baxter and Dunbar. (more…)

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Posted on March 20, 2009 - by Hubba

Horses I’ve Rode

As I’ve been working on this novel, it’s got me thinking about all the horses I’ve ridden over the years, and brought several stories to mind.

I think I’ve established before that I am not the world’s greatest cowboy.  Somedays I feel like a disgrace to my hat.  I have never left the barn with a string of ten horses and come back a week later for a new string.  But I’ve ridden a few horses.

The following story should serve to illustrate this little series- (more…)

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