This last week was fairly busy. The chill is in the air. Woke up to the mid-20's temps this morning. This has made us shuffle our priority work schedule a bit. Some things you just don't like to do when its freezing out. Like pouring cement or washing equipment.
Everyone in the country is busy shipping calves. The highways are full of trucks headed to feedlots all over. We ship the first week of November, so right now we're busy prepping our corrals, shifting cattle around, and helping the neighbors ship.
It hasn't been all work and no play though. Last Saturday I went into Miles city and spent the night with the Miles City Fire Department in order to get some training and field experience with their ambulance crew. But it was a slow night and we didn't get any call outs for the ambulance. I did spend quite a bit of time discussing equipment and looking at how they do things. Good training. Then on Sunday Tim(one of the firefighters) and I went out to a local pond and did some dive training. The new neck seal that I put in my dry suit worked very nicely without any leaks and all other equipment checked out well. 20 minutes in the water carrying full gear and a 30 cu. pony bottle for drag made me realize once again how out of shape I really am. Visibility was a glorious 6 inches and I found numerous soda cans and dog toys while doing search patterns. It was a good day breathing canned air. Gotta love it.
On Monday two of the firefighters, Tim and Tyson, came out to the ranch and we spent the day hunting. We had a slight sprinkle all day, but it wasn't bad at all for hunting. Tyson filled his antelope tag with a nice buck in the morning and then filled a mule deer doe tag later in the afternoon. He jerky's(?) everything and he shared some of what he made last year. He does a great job and doesn't bake it tell its crunchy, but still has some moisture in it.
It was good to get out with some friends. But its time to get back to the grind and get some work done. I have a water tank to repair and some new corral to build in the next few days. If I can come up with enough post material. Number 1 railroad ties are getting hard to find. And a bunk of number 2 ties will get you about 8 ties that are good, 5 that are so-so, and the rest are junk that you can take back for more.
School is just past its halfway point for me. Current discussions in the government class are about bureaucracy and the agencies created to manage all the bureaucracy. In Criminal Justice we are discussing our prison systems and alternative forms of punishment. Radio collars for the masses.
Have a good rest of the week and we'll see you some time........soon...ish.
3 comments:
It doesn't sound as if you're shy of things to do.
soon-ish sounds about right, you sound super busy! Andrew woulda loved to have tagged along on that hunt. :)
And we would have loved to have him along Denise.
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