It's snowing hard as I pull up a chair and write you today. We had a nice short warm-up that allowed us to recover from subzero, but now winter has set in again, and it is coming down fast. The forecast in the mountains is in several feet for this week but we get a fraction of that in our rain/snow …
Elk and Coyotes on the Ranch
December 4, 2014:Â December seems to always mark increased fencing time on the ranch. Â The elk come down out of the high country in large herds and pretty much ignore man-made boundaries. Â Unlike our beeves, they will just flat run like wild buffalo. Â Imagine a herd of 700 lb ungulates …
Baby It’s Cold Outside
The continued procession of subzero nights have us locked in the frigid, hard reality that winter has arrived. I flipped my calendar to December on Tuesday, and the 21st caught my eye. First of day of winter, it said. Really? At least we humans and our four legged charges will be acclimated by …
Photo of the Day: Winter’s Approach
The Alderspring beeves wonder where all the green grass went as winter begins its furious approach. …
Thanksgiving at the Ranch
We had a wonderful Thanksgiving here on the ranch. We had 23 folks over for dinner, and enjoyed pasture raised turkey raised by a former employee (2 birds--yum!—thinking maybe we should carry it in the webstore!). It did get pretty loud with all those kids in there, so we headed out to feed the …
From the High Prairie to the Pahsimeroi
It was a beautiful but crispy subzero on the ranch this morning, the day after Thanksgiving. Black Friday, as they call it in other places in the world, was quiet on Alderspring: windless and soundless. There was no line of cars in my way out to fork hay to hungry beeves soon after the sun came up …
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