Meanwhile Back on the Ranch

It's January, and what, you might ask, is going on at the ranch? Nothing! It's so wonderful. My neighbors will start calving soon, which means that blizzards will come, but right now it's beautiful. We don't start calving until late March because we're weather wienies.

So here's what happened since I last checked in. We decorated for Christmas:

We had just enough snow for it to be pretty.

The antelope showed up. We have a small herd that winter with our cattle. Because the snow hasn't gotten too deep, the cattle are still on winter pasture, so we don't have to feed yet.

We put windows in my Mom's house using a tractor. The windows were really heavy and it was the only way we could get them up to where they belonged. Doesn't everyone install windows in Montana in December? The window guy didn't order them on time, so July installation didn't happen as planned.

The elk came down from the mountains. They stayed in our field for about a week, then moved to the neighbor's field. They can wreck havoc on hay stacks and winter forage, so we weren't sorry to see them go.

It got really pretty. That's my Festivus tree. We actually put that dead tree in our yard on purpose to allow the birds places to hang out until our real trees grow. I really like it.

I made a robe that's a really long hoodie sweatshirt and it's so cozi-licious!

The trumpeter swans are here now. They sometimes hang out in the potato field beside my house. I looked up "what do swans eat" and come to find out, they like to glean potatoes and lettuce from fields. So, I have spud eating swans next door every now and again.

And finally, we're getting some beautiful sunrises!

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Cheers!
Jeannie