I am not sure this blog can be any more random. Here are just some thoughts and observances from the past couple of weeks.
On my drive home yesterday, my car registered 89 degrees. Celebrating Cinco de Mayo in North Dakota generally doesn't include temperatures similar to Cancun. I walked back to the house last night after roping practice and turned around and walked back to the barn and then turned around and did it again. I couldn't make myself go to the house. Temperatures hovered around 75 degrees under a starlit sky. With it being so early, no pesky mosquitos made their presence known. I sat on the porch swing for over an hour listening to the coyotes yip and howl and soaked in the perfectly still night. These are the days I love North Dakota.
The crocuses were not very good this year. They came up early in the warm weather and were froze out soon after emerging. I spend hours walking through the pastures in search of these little markers of spring. It took me much longer to find these little gems this year.
My good friend and co-worker (I won't mention any names, Dave) put his new pontoon into the river yesterday afternoon and called to tell our office mates to look out the window towards the river so we could see him float by. Go ahead and rub it in. We will have our revenge soon enough!
The ranch has moved into Spring work. The bull sale is complete so now it is time to start farming. Our neighbors started weeks ago, but we never put a seed in the ground until the gavel is down on the bull sale. We don't plant many cash crops and mostly for cattle feed so Troy never gets too uptight about planting dates. I'm sure we are talked about by the neighbors for the lack of planting immediacy.
I spent last weekend in Bowman at a Jr. High Rodeo. Haley had her last rodeo before state finals. I always love going to Bowman but for fairly strange reasons. Every year at both this rodeo and the high school finals, I climb at least one and often two buttes in the general vicinity of Slope County. I usually con a few of my favorite rodeo moms to join me although I would do it alone if I had no takers. Every year we climb Twin Buttes located at the north side of town. We are also planning a hike up White Butte in June. It just happens to be the highest point in North Dakota which is not saying a lot since the elevation is only 3506 feet above sea level.
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| This beauty was parked outside the BSC Library on Thursday. How can you not love it? |
On my drive home yesterday, my car registered 89 degrees. Celebrating Cinco de Mayo in North Dakota generally doesn't include temperatures similar to Cancun. I walked back to the house last night after roping practice and turned around and walked back to the barn and then turned around and did it again. I couldn't make myself go to the house. Temperatures hovered around 75 degrees under a starlit sky. With it being so early, no pesky mosquitos made their presence known. I sat on the porch swing for over an hour listening to the coyotes yip and howl and soaked in the perfectly still night. These are the days I love North Dakota.
The crocuses were not very good this year. They came up early in the warm weather and were froze out soon after emerging. I spend hours walking through the pastures in search of these little markers of spring. It took me much longer to find these little gems this year.
My good friend and co-worker (I won't mention any names, Dave) put his new pontoon into the river yesterday afternoon and called to tell our office mates to look out the window towards the river so we could see him float by. Go ahead and rub it in. We will have our revenge soon enough!
The ranch has moved into Spring work. The bull sale is complete so now it is time to start farming. Our neighbors started weeks ago, but we never put a seed in the ground until the gavel is down on the bull sale. We don't plant many cash crops and mostly for cattle feed so Troy never gets too uptight about planting dates. I'm sure we are talked about by the neighbors for the lack of planting immediacy.
I spent last weekend in Bowman at a Jr. High Rodeo. Haley had her last rodeo before state finals. I always love going to Bowman but for fairly strange reasons. Every year at both this rodeo and the high school finals, I climb at least one and often two buttes in the general vicinity of Slope County. I usually con a few of my favorite rodeo moms to join me although I would do it alone if I had no takers. Every year we climb Twin Buttes located at the north side of town. We are also planning a hike up White Butte in June. It just happens to be the highest point in North Dakota which is not saying a lot since the elevation is only 3506 feet above sea level.
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| Early morning climb up Twin Buttes |
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