5 posts tagged “ranch”
Drove up to the Ranch this weekend to move the herd from Dave Anderson's "lowland" ranch up to Alpine Meadows- about 15 miles on horseback: a long way for the new little calves. There was three feet of snow up here just a week earlier, and snow squalls and rain since- the grass has barely started.
I cut down two big old lodgepole pine trees, filled the back of the truck with 6 foot sections, and drove back near the house to section them further. The cattle came and inspected my work. Silly girls...
We had 1.75 inches of rain in past few days, after about 6 weeks with no significant amount. We fired up the wood-burning stove yesterday to keep the chill out- our high temp at the ranch was 41.
It snowed for the better part of an hour yesterday, and actually stuck in the hills far above the ranch. On the drive to town today the Rocky Mountains, from the headwaters of the Missouri up to Canada, had a thick white blanket. The forested hills behind the ranch showed a lot of white as well.
The jungle-yard of June has laid down as a yellow brown dust- it actually shrank since the last time I mowed it in July, but with all the rain it has already greened up again.
We are in town today for an apres-Chemo scan, a radioactive "dye" is administered through an I.V. drip for an hour, then he is scanned. We get the results next Monday. ( they lost all the scans they did that day, and we had to rescan the next week, then get the results the following week- which came back positive: which meant another scan the following week- leading to more chemo the following week ie the last week of Sept.)
Meanwhile, Carmine is happy to be collar-free again and able to hike and run and swim as much as a dog can take, with out ever leaving her 1,600 acre yard.
I started this a few years back and had it nearly completed, when I suddenly became convinced that it was terrible and that I was waisting my time on it. I rediscovered it lately and figured I'd give it an afternoon's attention. It came together quickly- once I had a few years away from it...
