Well we've got kind of a brisk day today. We're maybe 50 degrees. We've had three to four days
of rain and it's supposed to be kind of the tail end of it here today, I think. It hasn't really quit
yet. We've got kind of a light drizzle, pretty heavy overcast, and a pretty brisk north wind.
It's kind of cool out this morning, but I've got a section of fence that I need to go prop up, and
I mean just that, prop it up. It's a section that I will need to rebuild here before too long. I moved
our cows, our three and our calf, across into what we call the little triangle. We have a county road
that goes through our place and cuts off kind of a little triangle section. Well I moved them down
into there, and I did some fixing some fence, but I've got some old wood cedar posts that are only
hanging because of the wire. They're all rotted off in the ground, and quite a section of them,
so I'm going to take a couple posts down and try to prop that up, and make do until we get a little
better weather. I'm not really sure if I'll get it rebuilt this summer, or not. I'm kind of hoping
to, but I got a lot of projects going. So that's kind of on the agenda today. I'll show you, when we
get down into what we call Farewell Creek. We've got kind of a boggy creek on the bottom on this
triangle corner of our place, and it's the head of Farewell Creek. This is where the spring actually
comes out of the ground, right on our corner. Well it gets pretty boggy down there, and generally I
can go down with a four-wheeler, or with my 4Runner, my Toyota, but it's pretty muddy today.
A couple weeks ago, three, four, I don't remember how long ago, I'd mowed some sagebrush out here
with my old Farmall tractor. Well I went to go back it into this pole barn, where I store it,
and that's where it died. So I haven't got it running again yet. I've worked the carburetor over.
I've got a real weak spark. I think maybe I'm going to change the condenser in it, but anyway, my four
wheeler, that I do my fencing with, is in the barn, and it's blocked in by my tractor. So, if it's too
muddy for my 4Runner, I may end up just hoofing down to get this fence fixed for the time being.
Anyway, I'll show you where we're going to go. I'm going to take a couple posts.
And grass is green. They're really liking it, but there's not a lot of substance to it
yet, so I'm going to throw out another bale to these cows, by a water tank that I've
got out here also, and kind of supplement, while this green grass kind of comes on.
I don't know if you can hear the meadowlarks. There's one.
Right there. We've got quite a bunch of them out here. They're
really talking this morning. I think they kind of like this cool weather.
This is the corner of the triangle.
Hi guys.
How you doing this morning, huh?
Kind of damp out today, huh?
Would you like little added groceries, huh?
Would you like a little added groceries? Yeah, kind of a cool morning, huh?
How you doing? Kind of getting this picked through, huh?
Yeah, you got a bit more yet.
Your water's staying up pretty good? Oh yeah.
You guys, you're not too terrible hungry. That's good.
Yeah, they really like the green grass, but sometimes there's not a whole lot
of substance to it, so I kind of like keep them topped off, keep the dry matter up.
You're not quite so interested, huh?
How's the little heifer girl?
Well down into this draw is where I need to go. On that far fence over there, I think you can see.
I really don't want to tear up the hillside getting down. It's kind of four wheel drive,
not so much down, but getting back up, so I think I'll probably just pack my posts.
Well this is the cattle guard, on the county road, on the north end of this triangle piece.
You can see here, off to the right kind, of where that old fence line is. Kind of right up this direction, or so.
This is where I moved it to. When we picked this place up, it had been surveyed prior, so this
corner here, from this old post, was over 43 feet off line. Well this old fence here was such poor
condition, and it was significantly off enough, that I did build all new fence on this north line.
So this northwest corner, I kind of need to do the same thing. It's not quite as far off, but it's off.
So since the county road kind of diagonals through our place, the cattle guard is not
in line with our fence line. But our fence line, survey line, should be about in here.
Well this is probably close to a 30', 35 foot gate. It might be even closer to 40'. I haven't
measured it off, but I'm going to come out from this post here, in line, and put a 20 foot gate in.
And then I'm going to end up running a new fence line across to where I need to go prop up this
broken section of fence, which I'll show you in a minute. On the far end it's about 11 and a half
feet off. Here it's about eight and a half feet off. Not a super big deal. I mean, it's off, it's off.
But this wire is old enough, and these fence posts are rotting off and breaking, to where if I'm
going to repair fence, I'm going to build new fence, and put it on line. And I don't mean, www. online.
This will be on the survey line. We've got to drop down this draw. This is what is called
Farewell Creek, the head of it, drop down and up across this other flat top. So I'll hike my
posts across, and my post driver, and show you where that fence is it needs to be propped up.
Now before I head down across Farewell Creek itself, I'm just going to show you, ...
This is the hay pasture that was totally covered with sagebrush, that three years
ago I ripped it all out. And last year we actually put hay up on this little meadow.
Well I think time I hit down this draw, and back up, I'm not going to need my coat.
So I'm going to shed it. I'm sure I'm going to warm up plenty enough.
I had to move my 4Runner across the cattle guard. That redhead just keeps rubbing on it.
It's a little hole down into here.
This is on the north end of our property here, and you can see it's
just kind of a swamp down here. It just kind of gathers water the further north and east it goes.
This is what I don't want to cross with my 4Runner. I'd just make a bunch of ruts.
So kind of, ... At the crest of the hill here, this is where all these
posts are just flopping in the wind, only held up by the wire themselves.
Somewhere, about in here you can see how floppy this is.
We've got one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight posts, that are all rotted off.
If it wasn't for the wire, this would all be on the ground.
I think I'll set one in here, and up a liitle ways.
That ought to help.
I brought some fence clips up.
I don't necessarily need to do all of them.
I just brought enough clips here to do the top two strands. That'll hold this in position.
It'll flop quite so much in the wind.
That'll make her a little better. So this would be our north and west corner.
And it's out from this post here, another 11 and a half feet, this whole fence needs to be shifted out.
So I'll put a three-way brace, a corner and then two braces off of it, rebuild this fence, sometime.
So I'm standing in the northwest corner. which would be the right angle of the triangle.
This is looking east, and eventually headed south. You can see my trailer, with the water tank, up on
top of the hill. That's up there toward the south apex of this triangle. And this is the
portion, small as it is, of Farewell Creek that goes through this little triangle piece of ours.
So, I guess I get to go back down and back up. The only benefit going this
direction is, I don't have two steel posts to carry with me.
Appreciate you coming along.