Cold front showed up at 7:00 pm yesterday evening.  Started raining shortly afterwards.  Woke up this morning to 59 degrees, and 2 inches of rain in the gauge.

Man we are so dry again/still, I put up about 240 bales of hay, which is about 145 ton, but been supplement feeding since late July and am worried I won't have enough because the hay fields are not growing back for winter pasture we usually get.  2" of rain would be game changer for us, but there is none in the forecast, and the last thing we need is an Oct cold snap and frost with it dry before hand.

I'll attest to the Buckaroo's dry comment. Woke up today with quite the wind burn and it wasn't even that windy! I had a blast Eric, and yeah, I'm paying for it today!!!

  I figured, I had to drive most of the day, so tomorrow I'll be feeling it from both days.  And don't feel bad I was wind/sun burned a little too.

Was there a Fubar get together?

It's been a beauty of a week here.  Lows in the mid 60s, highs in the mid 90s, but the humidity is way down so it's actually possible to be outside for more than a few minutes and now it cools off when the sun goes down! 

Quote from: jetmex on September 30, 2024, 07:37:01 AMWas there a Fubar get together?

Believe it or not Jaime, it was discussed. I'm only 4 hours away, so I took an opportunity to drive up for a visit. A lot of Fubarian names popped up, Ray Hightower, Big Mike, George, Frank (Buzzbeak), and it was mentioned that if we do another Gathering it better be soon, the way the Olde Guard is dying off...

By the way, anyone hear from Nony lately?

A mini gathering I guess.  Would have been perfect for one today for the most part, nice and cool. 

My daughter won a guided hunt trip in the bighorns, she was up yesterday shooting the deer rifles, forgot how much those things buck.

It's been a beautiful week here.  Lows in the 60s, highs in the upper 80s. No rain in sight.  It'll be a good night to watch the grandson march in the halftime show at tonight's football game.

Been pretty nice here but for the smoke, temps in the 70s and 80s, dry mostly cloudless, but we have yet another monster fire up north in the state just west of Sheridan and have had smoke at times pretty thick.

 My daughters hunting trip turns out to be an annual fundraiser for the Rotary club that they call 'Gunpowder and buckskin', an outreach program where they get a half dozen hunting licenses for out of state people, usually Rotary club members, she didn't win it, but was chosen as a replacement for some other woman who couldn't make it at the last minute, she was asked by a woman she has worked with in the Sheridan main street program to fill in,  she feels she won though because she is not nor ever been a Rotary club member.

It consists of week long worth of fly fishing, rifle target, clay trap competition, a calcutta auction for participants and followed by a deer hunt and a awards dinner.

So it turns out having a gun dad is not so bad, she had not shot a rifle in years, she came up last Sunday, I gave a crash course and she ran some rounds through to pick the rifles to take, and I sent up with her my 270 win and a 22 bolt action rifle.  She had no idea before she got there it was all a competition or of the calcutta where she was the item sold. She did missed the fishing part, but had a womens outdoor group who went fly fishing the end of Sept and had a ball with it.  This weekend was the shooting, she won the competition and got a little Annie Oakley trophy. Then she generated $3000 being sold in the calcutta. 

Today is the deer hunt, so we'll see how that goes, but she is having a blast with it all so far.  This may seem all natural to people considering where she came from, but what most don't know is the girl hardly went outside except when forced as a teen ager, in college all she was worried about was cloths, the newest Iphone and friends. Funny how adulting works sometimes.

 I'll let you know how it turns out.

 

Early bird gets the...deer?

Apparently. She is so excited can't even come up with the words.  1st hunt, 1st deer she is beaming.

Quote from: Onepoint on October 12, 2024, 10:19:32 AMEarly bird gets the...deer?

Apparently. She is so excited can't even come up with the words.  1st hunt, 1st deer she is beaming.

Atta girl! When's elk season?    

Awesome!!!  Way to go Kayla!!!

Its been a full month and not a single drop of rain again, had some clouds roll through last night, gave us some thunder and sprinkled for 5 minutes, not even enough to make concrete damp.

 But up north they got some much needed snow on the Elk fire out side of Sheridan, that thing has been a monster.  It has grown to over 96k acres, but its along the front range up there and stretches 30 miles long now.  I read they have had 13 to 15 aircraft on it running drops non stop now for 20 days and had no serious containment, had to evacuate 3 small villages and many ranches and out lying acreages.

Out of it has come the hillbilly hotshots or so they are called, local ranchers and others who have got together and helped firefighters with their own equipment try and save some buildings and places, and have been successful at times, they stopped a branch of the fire from crossing a fireline along a road all by themselves apparently that allowed some of the 1st containment of it. The fire fighters were doing as much as they could, it was just too erratic and unpredictable as to where it would push to get a good handle on it. Thank god for people who look after themselves.

Anyway .5 to a full inch of rain has fell on it,  snow and cooler temps late afternoon gave the firefighters a much needed break, they pulled everyone from the line as it stopped encroachment and let the regroup and rest for next week when its supposed to dry out again.

We have rain coming through now. I don't expect much but it's welcome.

We had a low on Wednesday morning of 29°. Unbelievably my non-productive Serrano plants survived unscathed, go figure.

We've been getting some Wyoming smoke, but it's been amazingly unscented. I had a cardio stress test yesterday and they said from what they read they had no idea why I was there.

That means I'll be complaining about the weather for a while...

Great news Stetto!