I’m back to rookie status. I won’t say how many times it took me to get lined up, but let’s just say it’s about the same amount time as using a stair climber at a gym.

No wonder the highways are always closed in Wyoming during the winter. If WYDOT follows the Farmers Almanac forecast for deploying their snow plows.

I’ve entered the Archie Bunker stage of life, muttering and cussing at the TV during the Wyoming - Akron game. I don’t know if I can make it until September 20 when they go to CU in Boulder.

You know the cooler almost fall days have arrived when the hound wants to sit in front of the bathroom heater after going out early in the morning.

The Boss has been gone on a paleontology dig, I call it digging for Dino’s, for the last week so the dogs and I are hurrying and trying to get the house back in shape and ready for when she and her brother and sister make it here for the weekend.

There were a lot of informal science experiments that happened at our ranch Southwest of Rawlins when I was growing up. My free spirited Uncle that passed away from brain cancer was game for trying anything.

We have the weeds mowed in the corrals, so we’re all ready to start fall processing. About a quarter of the herd is already self gathered. We will bring a few more down and let them eat on the Upper River Meadows some more before we actually start the fall processing.

Arctic sea ice extent has increased 31% over the past thirteen years. This story will not be reported by CNN Fox News or NPR noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G02135/no… noaadata.apps.nsidc.org/NOAA/G02135/no…

And a lot of places in Wyoming were coerced into this BS during the great shutdown.

My smart watch has turned into a nanny. I think I’m going shut down some settings.

Some of the self gathered cows having breakfast this morning. They sure prefer the meadows to the dry pasture that they were on.

Brother-in-law needed some pipe posts for some fence on his place, so he using the suitcase welder and building us some pipe racks for our pipe. Gives him a break from Test driving prototype semi trucks.

They got lost on their way to a golf course.

I know it happens every year but it is sure a mood damper for me.

This is exactly what happens to my well laid plans for every day. They seem to morph into something else after just a few minutes.

I’m doing better at pasturing Canadian geese than I am at pasturing cows

When you’ve made several trips around the sun, it’s a lot easier to raise your welding projects to a comfortable working height rather than to kneel down.

There are a lot of us former ranch kids that can directly relate to this cartoon, and a lot of their younger siblings can testify to being a test subject at one time or another.

Farm accountant satisfied