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Old 09-13-2021, 05:32 PM
 
Location: Brendansport, Sagitta IV
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While not a scholarly tome, one of the best "Cowboy" books I've ever read is Trails Plowed Under by Charlie Russel, Yes, that Charles M Russel the celebrated western artist.
Done got me one, 1978 edition with "new color plates" and in 1996 was the property of a Don Greenberg (no location given).

Read one story at random, and yep, this is a good'un. Thanks!
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Old 09-13-2021, 06:10 PM
 
Location: Where the mountains touch the sky
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You're welcome!

My copy was printed in 1945.

Just wait until you get to the story where an Elk treed on hunter and the other....

You'll just have to read it, but I smile every time I think of it.
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Old 09-13-2021, 08:15 PM
 
Location: Brendansport, Sagitta IV
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You're welcome!

My copy was printed in 1945.
Now I'm jealous

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Just wait until you get to the story where an Elk treed on hunter and the other....

You'll just have to read it, but I smile every time I think of it.
Heh... skimming around, I get the feeling there are a lot of smiles in there.
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Old 09-13-2021, 09:24 PM
 
Location: Where the mountains touch the sky
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There are. I've always loved the story of the Savage Santa Claus too.
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Old 09-27-2021, 10:50 PM
 
Location: Brendansport, Sagitta IV
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My calendar is busted again.

Got a hard freeze last week. Burned every leaf out of the garden, but didn't seem to discourage more zucchini from appearing nor reduce the number of tomatoes that need processing. Did make the irrigation ditch turn off, apparently by itself. So figured it was off a little early this year and picked up all the hoses (1500 feet of 'em... some year I need to rig some proper pipe so it doesn't look like I'm farming giant spaghetti). Two days later there's water coming out of the side ditch pipe, and the main ditch is fuller than it's been all summer. Er, well, okay, I guess someone put the schedule into reverse... then today it's at half-mast, just shallow enough that the head gate doesn't pick up enough to notice.

I have no idea if I'm supposed to water or not.
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Old 01-05-2022, 10:06 AM
 
Location: Brendansport, Sagitta IV
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Happy New Year, fellow porchers! What did you get for Xmas?

Dear Santa: please bring me a thermometer that doesn't go below zero.
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Hey! This is marked in degrees Kelvin!
You could have at least brought me a lump of coal!!


Liftin' one to the memory of ElkHunter, who built this porch for us.
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Old 01-05-2022, 10:13 AM
 
Location: Where the mountains touch the sky
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Yeah, still missing Elk hunter.

About all I got is frostbite. Blowing & drifting snow, I couldn't even get home the other night because one of the neighbors plowed a trench down the middle of the road that filled in about 3 times deeper than what they plowed.

Looks like we might get a winter this year.
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Old 01-05-2022, 10:37 AM
 
Location: Brendansport, Sagitta IV
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Y'all gotta get us some pictures of that road with its piled-high trench, suitable for scaring off the thin-blooded.

That's one thing I learned about this snow-movin' thing... you gotta get it OUT of there, not just dig a hole in the middle, or it'll come back on you worse than you started!

I see they got officially -41 along the Hi-Line... probably a good deal colder out beyond where the street lights reach. We only got to about -5. Downright balmy!!
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Old 01-05-2022, 10:49 AM
 
Location: Where the mountains touch the sky
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I live on a school bus route so the county gets out there and clears it quickly. Which was one of the big selling points for the place, and I really appreciate the diligence of my new county.
Back in Helena, they plowed the snow routs through town, but the side streets were just SOL. The city is really "green" there so they use solar power to clear the side streets, ( they wait until it melts in the spring).

Nice warm -10 here, but with a windchill of - 34.

We've been getting a lot of refugees from Washington and the states of Jefferson and the proposed Greater Idaho here. ( not sure how they're finding the place). But they do introduce themselves as refugees,
So I'm not sure how they'll take this cold since most are from areas that get some nasty weather too.

Guess we'll see come spring.
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Old 01-05-2022, 11:13 AM
 
Location: Brendansport, Sagitta IV
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I used to live on Nelson Road (between Bozeman and Belgrade), back when it was just a few loads of gravel better than a dirt track and mostly uninhabited. But there were a bunch of kids down about halfway to the highway, and nowhere the school bus could turn around, so they plowed the whole thing. We couldn't get mail delivery or a phone line, but we had a plowed road all winter!

So, yer sayin' you might find some o' those lost refugees once the snowbanks melt?
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