Band

E had a band concert Sunday. They played Rolling Along (otherwise known as Mary had a Little Lamb), Jingle Bells, Jolly Old St. Nick, and Winter Medley.They played surprisingly well. Yes, all the children in this picture are in 6th grade. E is in the 2nd row peeking over the stand.

Feedlot

83 calves left here yesterday for Nebraska.This is the convoy of trailers leaving our farm for a neighbor's who has scales and a place to load a tractor trailer.

This may have been a bad weekend to send them. There were blizzard warnings and the temperature was below zero in Nebraska.

Happy Birthday

E's birthday is today. She had a cake on Sunday with family and will have another one Friday with friends. She was still disappointed however that I didn't make her a 3rd one for today.
Happy 12th Birthday E!

Water

Still no rain to speak of, so we are still hauling water. It takes about an hour to fill the tank at the house.

Then about 30 minutes to run the water into the tire trough.Then J has to try and empty it completely so there will be nothing to freeze.

Grandpa's Farm

Over Thanksgiving C, M, J and I went to the valley to drive around Grandpa's farm.

These pictures are from "over the hill." You can't see this from the road so it feels very isolated. It's also where most of our Christmas trees in years past came from.

Black Friday

J had plans for black Friday other than shopping. We had to work the calves that will be sent out west to the feedlot next month.This involved getting 100 calves up, through the chute one at a time, giving 2 vaccinations, and tagging with an EID (electronic identification) tag. I had to keep up with the EID tags, record the number and the corresponding calf ear tag.
This is all for the age and source verification program so we get a premium at slaughter.

Basketball

V's JV basketball season started today with a scrimmage.

It's a good thing the score board doesn't show up here well enough to read. Suffice it to say, it's a good thing we even made it into double digits.