I hear you John, It's a PITA, but we need it and will take it. Ugh, fire season may be a tough one for you guys.

I agree. It's been nice to drink coffee this morning and look out at it. I gotta go work a couple of colts here soon though.

No fair Wes!

Yeah Zach, I really hope fire season is nonexistent for you this year. I was in Wellington when that fire in 2000 hit. I think it was called Gopher Canyon. It was a bad one. I helped a friend of mine rescue some livestock. It was pretty hairy.

 

At the time of the Black Forest fire, I owned a vacant lot at the north side near Hodgen. If they hadn't been widening Hodgen at the time it may have taken out more folks including my then neighbors. Had to help friends off Walker load up horses and move them in a big hurry. I need to add a few small animal cages to grab critters and go fast.
Yeah, I hope the whole west avoids the fires, but having been in the mountains recently I'm not very optimistic.

 

You guys all make me jealous. Love that county. Enjoy it while your young. Loved it when we use to go on are 6 week hunting trips in the mountains of Wyoming and Idaho. Just a bunch guys with are own stuff, sleeping and hunting and fishing with that snow all around us. You'd be surprised how much it has changed over the years. Snow comes later and even the cold comes later. Really loved doing that.

 

Hey fellas, just for fun if you feel like it this weekend, if you guys look up "driving through San Diego fires" on Youtube, there is a video my friend and I made where we got caught in the Carlsbad fires of 2014. It was totally unplanned, but ended up being a huge news media event on GMA, NBC Today, and CNN. We laughed because were just videoing due to the epic nature of the fires. It was nuts. You'll hear me screaming and my buddy yelling stuff.

 

Better yet, here it is....

 

 

You idiot. You weren't wearing your seatbelts!!

 

The sipping is done on the boat while at anchor for the night. That is a cove on part of the Columbia River, and the navigable stretch between two hydroelectric dams is about 40 miles or so. We jump in the boat, cruise upriver, and drift with the current - spotting scope, binoculars, and camera at the ready to catch blue heron, trumpeter swans, otters, bald eagles, red-tail hawks, kingfishers, osprey, deer, bighorn sheep, ducks, and a variety of other wildlife in view. Great way to unwind.

I love fresh deep snow, it's just so pretty. I find shoveling snow a good way to work off a morning doughnut.

Our weather is warming up, but I have an old picture of our "neighborhood" that's in the snowy motif. This is looking to the South, toward Entiat, WA.

 

And man did we get slack for not turning the phone the right way!! LOL It was so chaotic that we didn't think about too much. We got caught trying to get away from it, but it had crossed the road so the firefighters were turning everyone around where you had to go back through it. We just shot videoed for friends to see how bad it was. Well my boss said we should put it on Youtube because the file was too big to email to our other boss to see if we should close the store that was 8 blocks away and it went viral form there. We really weren't trying to glorify people's homes burning to the ground. That neighborhood near the beginning was reduced to nothing.

 

Sad thing about SoCal is that can happen every year. I was still living in El Cajon during the Cedar Fire in '03 working for Bell at the time. Did a lot of rebuild from Alpine down to the border.

This morning here in my neck of CO

 

That new tractor looks great! Son has had me checking out auctions for larger AG tractors and wheel loaders. Nothing decent in reasonable price range. He did get a self propelled swather - sitting in his coal heated workshop right now getting field ready.

Are you feeding round bales? How do you handle them (round or square)?

Daughter and Son in Law going to help my son in MT next week, Inoculation, tagging, nut cutting I think. I'll go in a few months for haying.

 

Congrats to Quick444 for making the FTE news page!

 

Where would I find that?

 

Right now there's a link from the FTE home page, but the article can be found here.

 

Thanks for making that easy, SaintITC. That whole story is one to remember, he is an animal, God bless him.