Lots of water...everywhere!

Our usually small creek is out of its banks, over our ranch road, and probably 1/4 to 1/2 mile wide and raging!

The barrow ditches are full of water too.

Another day, winter again!

Tonight when we brought supper to the corral, there was snow on the mtn and several inches of rain on the ground! Some places in the state have gotten over 4" of rain today. We had several tornados touch down and do damage not too far from here, there was hail and snow and lots of rain. Our creek is really flooding tonight...Grpa G shut down all the headgates that he could so the ditches don't wash out.

Fischer was really worried that Grpa was driving in the water...and Gary too. He was shouting out the back door that they shouldn't go in the water. After I turned the camera off, he said..."I'm SO nervous!" It was pretty cute!

Wednesday's picnic

The heifers are all gathered for some cow breeding work. The men have to be with them from daybreak to right at dark, so we carry the food to them.

Fischer and Grpa G enjoying pizza together.
Notice what a good picnic table Grandpa's knee makes!

Wednesday was a dusty dry day. Today, Thursday, we had lots of rain down low and snow on the mtns, so that will cut the dust down.

Early to rise....

Breakfast was at 5:30 am this morning. The men were going in different directions. I went with Grpa G towards the mtn pastures to check the fence, and to check for poisonous weeds. You will notice the first picture is what they want the fence to look like.

This 2nd picture is death camus...poisonous to cattle.

Third is larkspur, poisonous to cattle. The weeds come up before the grass, and the cattle are eager to eat anything green, so we try to keep them out until the grass grows up higher.

The warm weather has started flood watches in our area. Our own creek here behind the house is out of its banks. The warm weather is really bringing the snow melt down.

The grass is getting green...

I noticed how pretty the mountain reflected in the irrigation water was this morning, and just had to share the morning, and the beauty!

Note the grass in the second picture is starting to grow up through the water....in a week, we will NOT be able to see the mountains reflected as the grass will be too tall!

Note the trees are NOT leafed out yet, but our last snowdrift behind the house melted completely away yesterday...it should at 80 degrees!!

Our daily snow...

It was snowing hard this morning, which dampened the enthusiasm for irrigating the hay fields, so....off they went to a ranch auction for a couple of hours.

Mother's Day drive

If you click on this you will see elk. We took a drive this afternoon after all our company left...it seemed too quiet in the house with just Grpa G and me. We saw several hundred elk all over the hills next to the road. This was about 6 miles from the house. Yesterday, we had a blizzard and 4 inches of snow. Today, it was 70 degrees and sunny.