Enjoying today’s “warming trend”
Oh, what a surprise. More snow and wind. If you click on the photo you can view the lovely sheet of ice beneath the snow. It has been like this everywhere on the place since before Christmas. I’m on osteoporosis medication, and have to tread gingerly. How cold is it? I have my earflaps down.
February 15th, 2007 at 12:57 am
When I was a young whipper snapper in Big Horn County, the towns folk who desired to hunt in the country would show up to help brand, mend fences, or just about anything else. It was a good way for city kids to get out and experience something rural, establish communial ties, gain some experience, learn the rural ways, and then come fall, get to experience the thrill of a hunt and the passage from being a mere boy to being a young man in the tradition of others that came before in Montana. It is sad to think that a long traditon is being lost and the relation between rancher/farmer and the city guy/father/kid just doesn’t seem to be there any more.
I can tell you from personal experince that there was no greater experience than to go to the all night diner and while the Saterday night crowd was just leaving to go home, all of the fathers and kids were coming in for a good, hot, filling breakfast, and talking about the ranches they were going to hunt.
And along about an hour before sunrise, there would be a long line of cars and pickups headed out of town for the hills and the places they would hunt. The further out you went the tail lights thinned out until there were none.
After a splended morning afield, being successful, a trip by the onwers house to drop off a bottle of bourbon, or a case of beer and some social chatter to catch up happenings, the father/ kids would depart with memories of a life time and experiences that could never be replaced.
So perhaps, that in a mutual exchange, I would bet that there is some one that would enjoy bringing their kid out to your place, to teach them something about mechanics ( preventive maintenance), and being in the country and the rural life, that come fall they could help to thin out the deer/upland game bird population to the mutual benefit of you and the city kid who might other wise be relegated to playing video games on a fine fall morning instead of being out on the land learning a more valuable skill.
I know that if I were close by I would gladly trade you some help during the year for the priviledge of showing my son how to hunt and work at the same time and have a social exchange that is not financially driven.
There are just some things that money cannot buy. A hand shake and the helping of a fellow citizen and the inter action and the good times that go along are priceless.
I only have to work in Texas another 15 years before I can make a permanent return to the promise land. I just hope there is some left when I get there.
Don’t fence me in, IMALGMF.
February 15th, 2007 at 9:16 pm
looks pretty though
February 15th, 2007 at 11:43 pm
BRRRRRR…. that is why I live here in California! Actually I miss the snow and cold…now. It has been 20yrs since I last drove in snow. Yikes!
February 16th, 2007 at 6:46 pm
We truly had a spring like day today!!! Worked on cars and soaked up some rays. Hoping it’s making its way to you. You deserve a big break in the weather. Hang in there, girl. It’s just about to turn warm and sunny.
February 17th, 2007 at 10:32 am
Looks horrible!!!
We’ve had it pretty bad here in the midwest too. We’ve had to shovel the same driveway five times in three days just to get to work.
At least our cats are not gonna start calving.
Hang in there!!!!
February 17th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
Nothing but a sheet of ice in the Forsyth area too Karen. It’s like ice skating all the time. You be careful!
February 19th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
Welcome to the osteoporosis club! I reached that dubious distinction several years ago. Now walk on artificial knees, but don’t have a dowager’s hump just yet. I just keep taking my once-a-week pill, and lots of calcium. It’s cold over here on the Rocky Mountain side of the state (southwest Montana), but not snowing today yet. All I can advise is to keep those earflaps down, and when you are done doing all the chores you have to do, and if you haven’t fallen and broken anything near and dear to your derriere, you can celebrate with a cup of hot cocoa.