Spring Cleaning

It’s getting warmer! Sometimes the air temps are in the mid 50’s and low 60’s. Our heat has been off a few times and the windows have been opened.

They don’t stay open long though.

Snow…

…on Palm Sunday

(We had about 2 inches, but it was melting going into the evening and into the next day)

On the nice days we’ve still have some clouds…but not the kind you are thinking of.

It’s not fog…it is smoke. The windows aren’t open very long on those days either.

The ranch is busy doing some spring cleaning.

They are burning old patches of hay and straw that the cows have picked through and left to rot.

(view from one of the guest houses. You can see the burned areas.)

Along with calving the last 30-50 cows, they are also dragging the fields and running a rock picker.

Living this close to the Big Horns, our pastures can get a little rocky.

(Intern from California running the rock picker.)

There’s also some plowing going on.

(Wooster plowing down in a field near the campgrounds, along the Medicine Lodge creek. Campers have already started rolling in. They will re-seed this area for future hay.)

Now, instead of cleaning up melted snow, we have transitioned to sweeping up dirt and sand.

It feels good to do some spring cleaning.